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INCANDES'CENCE,/ [ incandefco, Lat.] A very ftrong 
flaming heat. 
INCANTA'TION, f. [Fr. from incanto, Lat.] Charms 
uttered by flnging; enchantment.—The great wonders 
of witches, their carrying in the air, and transforming 
themfelves into other bodies, reported to be wrought, 
not by incantations or ceremonies, but by anointing them- 
"felves all over, move a man to think that thefe fables are the 
effects of imagination ; for ointments, if laid on any thing 
thick, by Hopping of the pores, fhut in the vapours, and 
fend them to the head extremely. Bacon. 
The nuptial rites his outrage ftraight attends ; 
The pow’r defir’d is his transfigur’d friends: 
The incantation backward fhe repeats, 
Inverts her rod, and what lhe did defeats. ’ Garth. ■ 
INCANTA'TOR, f. One that ufes incantation. Cole. 
INCAN'TATORY, adj. [from incanto, Lat.] Dealing 
by enchantment ; magical,—Fortune-tellers, jugglers, 
geomancers, and the like incantatory impoftors, daily de¬ 
lude them. Brown. 
To INCAN TON, v. a. To unite to a canton or fepa- 
rate community.—When the cantons of Bern and Zurich 
propofed the incorporating Geneva in the cantons, the 
Roman Catholics, fearing the Proteftant intereft, propofed 
the incantoning of Conftance as a counterpoife. Addifon. 
INCAN'TONING, / The aft of uniting to a canton. 
INCAPABILITY, or Inca'pableness, f. Inability 
natural; difqualificat’on legal.—You have nothing to 
urge but a kind of incapability in yourfelf to the fervice. 
Suckling. 
INCA'PABLE, adj. Wanting room to hold or con¬ 
tain : with g/’before the thing to be contained. Wanting 
1 >ower ; wanting underftanding ; unable to comprehend, 
earn, or underhand : 
Incapable and (hallow innocents ! 
You cannot guefs who caus’d your father’s death. Shakefp. 
Not able to admit or have any thing.—Wilmot, when he 
faw Goring put in the command, thought himfelf incapa¬ 
ble of reparation. Clarendon. —Unable; not equal to any 
thing : 
Is not your father grown incapable 
Of reafonable affairs l is he not itupid 
With age ? Shahefpeare. 
Difqualified by Jaw.—Their laftds are almoft entirely taken 
from them, and they are rendered incapable of purchafing 
any more. Swift. —In converfation it is ufual to fay a man 
is incapable of falfehood, or incapable of generofity, or of 
any thing good or bad. Johnfon. 
INCA'PABLENESS,/. Incapacity. 
INCAPA'CIOUS, adj. Narrow; of fmall content.— 
Souls that are made little and incapacious, cannot enlarge 
their thoughts to .take in any great compafs of times or 
things. Burnet. 
INCAPA'CIO.USNESS, / Narrownefs; want of con¬ 
taining fpace. 
To INCAPA'CITATE, v. a. To difable; to weaken. 
•—Nothing of confequence fhould be left to be done in 
the iaft incapacitating hours of life. ClariJJ'a. —To difqua- 
Jify.—Monftrofity could not incapacitate from marriage. 
Arbuthnot. 
INCAPA'CITATING, /. The aft of rendering inca¬ 
pable. 
INCAPA'CITY, / Inability; want of natural power; 
want of power of body; want of comprehenfivenefs of 
mind.—The inaftivity of the foul is its incapacity to be 
moved with any thing common. Arbuthnot. 
To INCAR'CERATE, v. a. [incarcero, Lat.] To im- 
prifon ; to confine. It is ufed in the Scots law to denote 
imprifoning or confining in a gaol; otherwife it is feldom 
found.—Contagion may be propagated by bodies that 
eaiily incarcerate the infefted. air; as woollen clothes. Har¬ 
vey. 
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INCAR'CERATING,/ The aft of imprifoning. 
INC’ARCERA'TION, J. Imprifonment ; confinement. 
To INCAR'N, v. a. \_incarjio, Lat.] To cover with flefli. 
—The flefli will foon arife in that cut of the bone, and 
make exfoliation of what is necefiary, and incarn it. 
Wifeman. 
To INCAR'N, v. n. To breed flefli.—The flough came 
off, and the ulcer happily incarned. Wifeman. 
To INCAR'NADINE, v. a. [Fr. from incarnadino, Ital, 
pale red. ] To dye red : 
Will all great Neptune's ocean wadi this blood 
Clean from my hand ? No, this my hand will rather 
The multitudinous fea incarnadine , 
Making the green one red. Shakefpcare. 
To INCAR'NATE, v. a. \incamer, Fr. incarno, Lat.] 
To clothe with flefli ; to embody with flefli: 
I, who erft contended 
With gods to fit the higheft, am now conftrain’d 
Into a beaff, and mix with beftial (lime. 
This effence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton. 
INCAR'NATE, part. adj. Clothed with flefli ; embo¬ 
died with flefli.—A moil wife fufficieat means of redemp¬ 
tion and falvation, by the fatisfaftory death and obedi¬ 
ence of the incarnate Son of God, Jei'us Chrift, God biefl'ed 
for ever. SanderJ'on. 
Here (halt thou lit incarnate, here (halt reign 
Both God and man. - Milton. 
It may be doubted whether Swift underflood this word: 
But lie's poffeft, 
Incarnate with a thoufand imps. Swift. 
In Scotland incarnate is applied to any tiling tinged of a 
deep red colour, from its refemblance to a fifth-colour. 
Johnfon. 
INCARNA'TION, f. The aft of afluming body — 
Upon the Annunciation, or our Lady-day, meditate on 
the incarnation of our blefled Saviour. Taylor. —The flate 
of breeding flefli.—The pulfation under the cicatrix pro¬ 
ceeded from the too lax incarnation of the wound. Wife- 
man, 
Incarnation, in theology, fignifies the aft where¬ 
by the Son of God aifumed the human nature; or the 
myftery by vvliich Jefus Clu'ifl, the eternal word, was 
made man, in order to accomplifh the work of our falva¬ 
tion. The era ufed among Chriftians, whence they num¬ 
ber their years, is the time of the incarnation, that is, 
of ChriA’s conception in the virgin’s womb. This era 
was firft eflablifhed by Dionyfius Exiguus, about the be¬ 
ginning of the fixth century, till .which time the era of 
Diocleflan had been in ufe. Some time after this, it was 
confidered, that the years of a man’s life were not num¬ 
bered from the time of .bis conception, but from that of 
his birth; which occafioned them to poftpone the begin¬ 
ning of this era for the fpace of one year, retaining thb 
cycle of Dionyfius entire in every thing elfe. At Roma 
they reckon their years from the incarnation or birth of 
Chrift, that is, from the 25th of December, which cuf- 
tom-has obtained from the year 1431. In France, and 
feveral other countries, they alfo reckon from the incar¬ 
nation; but then they differ front each other in the day 
of the incarnation, fixing it, after the primitive manner, 
not to the day of the birth, but of the conception, of 
our Saviour. The Florentines retain the day of the 
birth, and begin their year from Chriftmas. See Chro¬ 
nology. 
INCAR'NATIVE, f. A medicine that generates flefh. 
—I deterged the ablcefs, and incarned by the common 
incarnative. Wifeman. 
INCAR'NING, f. The aft of coveting with flefh. 
INCARTA'TION,/ In chemiltry, the depart; a mo- 
thod of feparating gold from filver. 
INGARVILLE'A,/. in botany, a genus of the clafs 
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