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he that is hurt for a wrong, imputcth it to the author. 
Bacon. —To reckon to one what does not properly belong 
to him : 
Thy merit 
Imputed (hall abfolve them who renounce 
Their own both righteous and unrighteous deeds. Milton. 
IMPUT'ER, f. He that imputes. 
IMPU'TING, f The aft of fetting that to the account 
of another which does not properly belong to him. 
IMPUTRESCIBIL'ITY, f [from imputrefcible .] The 
date or quality of being incorruptible. Scott. 
IMPUTRES'CIBLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, 
and putrefco, to grow rotten. ] Incorruptible. Bailey. 
IMPU'TRIBLE, adj. Free from putrefaction, incor¬ 
ruptible, Bailey. 
IM'RAH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
IM'RI, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
IM'UM, f. In aftrology, the fourth or lowed; houfe in 
the figure of the heavens. 
JN, prep. [Latin.] Noting the place where any thing 
is prefent ; not without: 
In fchool of love are all things taught we fee ; 
There learn’d this maid of arms the direful guife. Fairfax. 
Noting the date or thing prefent at any time.—The 
other is only by error and mifconceit named the ordinance 
of Jefus Ckritt; no one proof is yet brought forth, 
whereby it may clearly appear to be fo in very deed. 
Hooker. 
Like one of two contending in a prize, 
That thinks he hath done well in people’s eyes. Shake/. 
Noting the time.—When we would confider eternity a 
parte ante, what do we but, beginning from ourfelves and 
the prefent time we are in, repeat in our minds the ideas 
of years or ages palt ? Locke. —Noting power.—To feed 
men’s fouls, quoth he, is not in man. Hubb. —Noting pro¬ 
portion.—I cannot but lament the common courfe, which, 
at lead, nine in ten of thole who enter into the miniftry 
are obliged to enter. Swift. —According to .-—In all likeli¬ 
hood I brought all my limbs out of the bed, which, ’tis 
probable, he has not done off the breach. Collier. —Con¬ 
cerning.—I only confider what he, who is allowed to have 
carried this argument fartheft, has faid in it. Locke. —For 
the fake. A folemn phrafe : 
Now, in the names of all the gbds at once, 
Upon what meat does this our Caffar feed. 
That he is grown fo great ? Shakefpeare. 
Noting caufe: 
King Henry, by the title right or w-rong, 
Lord Clifford vows to fight in thy defence. Shakefpeare. 
In that. Becaufe.—Some things they do in that they 
are men; in that they are wife men, and chridian men, 
fome things; fome things in that they are men milled, and 
blinded with error. Hooker. 
In as much. Since; feeing that.—Thofe things are done 
voluntarily by us, which other creatures do naturally, in 
a'imuck as we might day our doing of them if we would. 
Hooker. 
IN, adv. Within fome place; notout.—How infamous 
is the falfe, fraudulent, and unconfcionable, perfon ; el- 
pecially if he be arrived at that confummate and robull 
degree of falfehood as to play in and out, and fhow tricks 
with oaths, the facreded bonds which the confcience of 
man can be bound with. South. —Engaged to any affair.— 
Thefe pragmatical flies valud themfelves for being in at 
every thing, and are found at lad to be jud good for no¬ 
thing. V Eft range. 
We know the word can come; ’tis thought upon ; 
We cannot fhift, being in, we mud go on. Daniel. 
Placed in fome date ; 
Poor rogues talk of court news, 
Who loles and who wins; who’s in, who’s Out. Shdkefp, 
Noting immediate entrance.—Go to thy fellows; bid 
them cover the table, ferve in the meat, and we will come 
in to dinner. Shakefpeare. —Into any place.—Is it not more 
eligible to come in with a fmooth gale, than to be tolled 
at lea with a dorm ? Collier. 
Next fill the hole with its ow’n earth again. 
And trample with thy feet, and tread it in. Dryden. 
Clofe ; home.—The polture of left-handed fencers is fo 
different from that of the right-handed, that you run upon 
their fwords if you pudi forward ; and they, are in with 
you, if you offer to fall back without keeping your guard. 
Taller. 
In has commonly in compolition a negative or priva¬ 
tive fenfe, as in the Latin ; lb, adive denotes that which 
adds, inaElive that which does not aid. In before r is 
changed intor; as irregular: before l into /; as illative; 
and into m before fome other confonants ; as improbable „ 
Johnfon. 
I'NA, king of Weffex. See the article England, vol. vl. 
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INABILITY, f. Impuiflance; impotence; want of 
power.—Neither ignorance nor inability can be pretended ; 
and what plea can we ofter to divine judice to prevent 
condemnation ? Rogers. 
INAB'STINENCE,/! Intemperance; want of power 
to abdain ; prevalence of appetite? 
Difeafes dire, of which a mondrous crew 
Before thee fhall appear, that thou may’d know 
What mifery the inabftinence of Eve 
Shall bring on man. Milton. 
INACCESSIBLE, adj. Not to be reached ; not to be 
approached.—There ffiall we lee the ends and ufes of thefe 
things, which here were either too fubtile for us to pene¬ 
trate, or too remote and inaccejjible for us to come to any 
didant view of. Ray. 
Whate’er you are, 
That in this delart inaccejjible. 
Under the Ihade of melancholy boughs, 
Lofe and negleid the creeping hours of time. Shakefpeare. 
INACCES'SIBLENESS, f The date of being inaccef- 
fible. 
INACCURACY, f. Want of exaiduefs.—It does not 
then proceed from any peculiar irregularity or difficulty 
of our language, that the general pradtici, both of lpeak- 
ing and of writing it, is chargeable with , inaccuracy. Lowtk 
INACCURATE, adj. Not exact; not accurate. It is 
ufed l’ometimes of perlons, but more frequently of per¬ 
formances.—Leland Is alfo inaccurate at lead, in repre- 
fenting the edition of Thynne as coming next after that 
by Caxton. Tyrwhilt. 
IN'ACHI, a name given to the Greeks, particularly 
the Argives, from king Inachus. 
INA'CHIA, a name given to Peloponnefus, from the 
river Inachus. . 
INACH'IDdE, the name of the eight fird fucceffors of 
Inachus, on the throne of Argos. 
INA'CHIUM, a town of Peloponnefus. 
IN'ACHUS, a fon of Oceanus and Tethys, father of 
Io. He founded the kingdom of Argos, and was lucceed- 
ed by his fon Phoroneus, B. C. 1807. and gave his name 
to a river of Argos, of which he became the tutelar deity. 
He reigned lixty years. Virgil. 
INACTION, f. Ceflation from labour; forbearance of 
labour.—The times and arnufements palt are not more 
like a dream to me than thole which are prefent; I lie 
in a refreffiing kind of inaction. Pope. 
INACTIVE, adj. Not buly ; not diligent; idle; in¬ 
dolent ; iluggilh.—Benalcazar, governor of St. Michael, 
an able and enterprifing officer, was alhamed of remaining 
inactive. Robertfon. —Unfavourable to aftivity ; 
Not 
