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midway between the port of Leith and Kinghom on the 
oppofite (hole. ( . • 
This ifland is faid to derive its name from the gallant 
Keith who fo greatly fignalized himfelf by his valour in 
ioio, in the battle of Barry, in Angus, againft the Danes; 
after which he received in reward the barony of Keith, 
in Lothian, and this little itle. In 1549 theEnglilh fleet, 
lent by Edward VI. to afiift the lords of the congregation 
againft the queen-dowager, landed, and began to fortify 
this ifland, of the importance of which they grew fenfi- 
ble after their negleft of fecuring the port of Leith, fo 
lately in their power. They left here five companies to 
cover the workmen under the command of Cotterel; but 
their operations were foon interrupted by M. Defie, gene¬ 
ral of the French auxiliaries, who took the place, after a 
gallant defence on the part of the Englifli. The Scots 
kept pofleffion for fome yeans ; but at laft the fortifications 
were deftroyed by aft of parliament, to prevent it from 
being of any ufe to the former. The French gave it the 
name of ITJle des Chcvaux, from its property of foon fatten¬ 
ing horfes. In 1497, by order of council, all venereal pa¬ 
tients in the neighbourhood of the capital were tianfported 
there, ne quid dclrimenti refpubtica caperet. 
INCH-KEN'NETH, a fmall ifland near the weft coaft 
of Scotland : one mile and a half weft of Mull. 
INCH-MAR'NOCH, a fmall ifland near the weft coaft 
of the Ifle of Bute, where are the ruins of a chapel. The 
extent of this little ifle is about a mile ; has a hundred and 
twenty acres of arable land, forty of brufli wood, near 
three.hundred of inoor, with ftrata of coral and fliells on 
the weft fide. 
INCH-POINT, a cape of Ireland, between Dingle 
Bay and Caftlemain Harbour, in the county of Kerry : 
thirteen miles eall of Dingle. , 
To INCHAFN. See To Enchain, yol. vi. 
To INCHA'NT. See To Enchant. 
INCHAN'TER. See Enchanter. 
INCHANT'MENT, f. See Enchantment. 
INCH ANT'RESS, f. See Enchantress. 
To INCHA'SE. See To Enchase. 
IN'CHED, adj. [with a word of number before it.] 
Containing inches in length or breadth.—Poor Tom, 
proud of heart to ride on a bay trotting ljorfe over four- 
inched bridges. Skakefpeare. 
IN'CHENHOFEN, a town of Germany, in Upper Ba¬ 
varia : three miles north of Aicha, and thirteen iouth-eaft 
of Rain. 
INCITING, f. The aft of meafuring by inches. 
IN'CHIPIN, f. Some of the inli.de of a deer. Ainfzoorth. 
INCH'MEAL, J. A piece an inch long : 
All th’ infeftions that the fun fucks up 
From bogs, fens, flats, on Profpero fall, and make him 
By inchmeal a difeafe! Shakefpeare. 
To IN'CHOATE, v. a. \_inchoo, Lat.] To begin to com¬ 
mence.—It is neither a fubftance perfeft, nor a fubftauce 
inchoate . or in the way of perfeftion. Raleigh- 
INCHOA'TION, / Inception; beginning.—The Pet¬ 
ting on foot fome of thofe arts in thofe parts would be 
looked upon as the firft inchoation of them, which yet 
would be.but their reviving. Hale. 
IN'CHOATIVE, adj. Inceptive; noting inchoating or 
beginning. 
IN'CHOATIVE, /. Ip grammar, a word which notes 
the beginning of aftion ; an inceptive. 
INCH'OFER (Melchior), a learned German Jefuit, 
was born at Vienna in the year 1584. At the commence¬ 
ment of his academic ftudies he devoted his principal at¬ 
tention to the fcience of juriiprudence, in which he be¬ 
came a diftinguifhed proficient at the age of twfenty-three. 
He then determined to enter into the fociety of the Je- 
fuits, and for that purpofe went to Rome, where he was 
admitted to his noviciate in the year 1607. Here he feems 
,jo have relinquiflied his legal purfuits, and to have cm* 
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ployed his time in the ftudy cf philofophy, theology, and 
the mathematics. Afterwards he filled the chair of pro- 
feflor in thofe faculties, during feveral years, at Medina 
in Sicily. At that place he publiftred, in 1630, a work 
which (hows that, whatever ltock of learning he poflefled„ 
it w'as not unaccompanied with a fufiicient portion of 
credulity. It was entitled, Epijlola B. Maria Virginia ad 
Mejfanenfes Veritas vindicata, folio; or, The Blefled Virgin 
Mary’s Letter to the People of Medina proved to be ge¬ 
nuine. In confequence of complaints which were pre¬ 
ferred againft him before the Congregation of the Index 
at Rome, on account of this publication, he was obliged 
to repair to that city ; where his judges were fo well fa- 
tisfied with the reafons which he offered in defence of 
what he had advanced, that, in the plenitude of their 
wifdom, they gave their fanftion to a new impreflion of 
the work, with fome trifling alterations, and a change of 
the title into, Conjeciatio ad Epijl. B. Mar. &c. or, A Con¬ 
jecture concerning the Blefled Virgin Mary’s Letter, &c. 
Inchofer continued fome years at- Rome, where, to his 
honour, he created many enemies by the zeal and fpirit 
with which he expofed the immoral and barbarous prac¬ 
tice of forming cajlrati for the ferviceof the orcheftra and 
the ftage. He alfo became difg.ufted with the intrigues 
and felfiftinefs of the order to which he belonged. Thus 
circumftanced, he retired to Macerata, and afterwards to 
Milan, where he fpent his time in ftudy till his death, in 
1648, when he was about fixty-four years of age. He 
was the author of, x. Traftatus Syllepticus, in quo quid 
de Terrse Solifque Motu vel Statione fecundum Sacrani 
Scripturam & SS. Patrum fentiendum, See. oftenditur, 
1633, 4to. 2. De facra Latinitate, de variis Lingua; La- 
tinae myfteriis, ex Origine, Progrelfu, Fine, &c. 1635, + to. 
3. Hiftoria trium Magorum, 1639, which is faid to refieft 
little credit on his critical Ikill. 4. Annalium Ecclefiaf- 
ticorum Regni Hungarise,tom. i. 1644, folio; which, from 
the learning and curious refearch dilplayed in it, has oc- 
cafioned regret that the author did not live to complete, 
his plan ; and other pieces to which he did not give his 
name. He is alfo thought to have been the author of, 5. 
A levere fatire againft the Jefuits, entitled, Lucii Cornelii 
Europasi Monarchia Solipforum, which w'as nrft pub- 
liflied at Venice, and afterwards in Holland, in the year 
1648. 
INCHQU', a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Se-tchuen : ten miles north-eaft of Pan. 
INCH'TURE, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Perth, in the road between Perth and Dundee: nine miles 
eaft of Perth. 
INCIGURABLE, adj. [from the Lat. zb, contrary to, 
and cicur, tame.] Incapable of being tamed. Scott. 
To INCI'DE, v. a. [from incido, to cut, Lat.] Medi¬ 
cines are faid to incide which confilt of pointed and fliarp 
particles ; as acids, and molt falts, by which the particles 
of other bodies are divided from one another: thus ex- 
peftorating medicines are faid to incide or cut the phlegm. 
Quincy. * 
IN'CIDENCE, or Incidency, f [ incidence, Fr. from 
incido , Lat. to fall.] The direction with which one body 
ftrikes upon another, and the angle made by that line, 
and the plane ftruck upon, is called the angle of incidence. 
In the occurflons of two moving bodies, their incidence 
is faid to be perpendicular or oblique, as their direc¬ 
tions or lines of motion make a ftraight line or an oblique 
angle at the point of contaft. Quincy .—In mirrors there 
is the like angle of incidence, from the objeft of the glafs, 
and from the glafs to the eye. Bacon .—In equal incidences 
there is a confiderable inequality of refraftions, whether 
it be that fome of the incident rays are refrafted more and 
others lefs conftantly, or one and the fame ray is by sc- 
fraftio.n difturbed. The permanent whitenefs argues, that 
in like incidences of the ray there is no 1’uch reparation of 
the emerging rays. Newton.—[_lncidens, Lat.] Accident; 
hap: calualty ; 
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