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f» the weft-riding of the county of York, with the con¬ 
tent of the lords of manors, &c. may be inclofed, a fixth 
part whereof lhall be for the benefit of poor clergymen, 
whofe livings' are under 40I. a-year, to be fettled in trul- 
tees, who may grant leafes for twenty-one years, &c. 12 
Ann. c. 4. Inclofures deftroyed in the night, to be made 
good by the neighbouring towns. 13 Edw. I. flat. i.c. 46; 
3 & 4 Edtu. VI. c. 3. Throwing down inclofures in the 
night, to be punifhed with treble damages. 3 ££ 4 Edw. VI. 
c. 3. 22 & 23 Car. II. c. 7. Taking away gates, pales, 
polls, ftiles, or hedge-wood, or dellroying them, how pu- 
nilhed, See. fee flats. 43 Eliz. c. 7.15 Car. II. c. 2. 9 Geo. III. 
29. 
To INCLOU'D, v. a. To darken to obfeure : 
In their thick breaths. 
Rank of grofs diet, (hall we be Unclouded, 
And forc’d to drink their vapour. Shakefpeare. 
INCLOUD'ING, f. The aft of darkening as in a 
elbud. 
To INCLU / DE, v. a-, \indudo, Lat.] To inclofe; to (hut 
in ; as, The (hell includes a pearl.—To eomprife ; to com¬ 
prehend.—Inltead of enquiring whether he be a man of 
virtue, the queftion is only whether he be a Whig or a 
Tory; under which terms all good and ill qualities areirc- 
cludtd. Swift. 
INCLU'DING, /. The aft of taking in, or of cora- 
prifing. 
JNCLU'SION, / The aft of including ; a rhetorical 
figure in which the fame word is repeated to give it the 
greater force. 
INCLU'SIVE, adj. [incluflf, Fr.] Inclofing.; encircling: 
Oh ! would that the incluflve verge 
Of golden metal, that mult round my brow, 
Were red-hot Heel, to fear me to the brain ! Shakefpeare. 
Comprehended in the fum or number : as, From Wed- 
nelday to Saturday incluflve ; that is, both Wednefday and 
Saturday taken into the number. Johnfon. 
I’ll fearch where ev’iy virtue dwells. 
From courts incluflve down to cells. Swift. 
INCLUSIVELY, 'adv. The thing mentioned reckoned 
into the account.—All articulation is made within the 
mouth, from the throat to the lips incluflvely ; and is dif¬ 
ferenced partly by the organs ufed in it, and partly by 
the manner and degree of articulating. Holder. 
INCOAC'T, or Incoact'ed, adj. [from coaElus, Lat. 
driven together.] Uncompelled ; unconftrained. Cole. 
INCOAG'ULABLE, a,dj. Incapable of concretion. 
INCOEXIS'TENCE, f. The quality of not exilling to¬ 
gether ; non-affociation of exiftence. An unufual word. 
—Another more incurable part of ignorance, which fets 
us more remote from a certain knowledge of the coexift- 
ence or incoexiflence of different ideas in the fame fubjeft, 
is, that there is no difcoverable conneftion between any fe- 
condary quality and thofe primary qualities it depends on. 
Locke. 
INCOG', adv. [corrupted by mutilation from incognito, 
Lat.] Unknown ; in private : 
But if you’re rough, and ufe him like a dog, 
Depend upon it, he’ll remain incog. Addifon. 
INCO'GITANCY, f. [ incogitantia , Lat.] Want of 
thought.—Next to the ltupid and merely vegetable Hate 
of incogitancy, we may rank partial and piece-meal confi- 
deration. Decay of Piety. 
INCO'GITANT, adj. Void of thought. 
INCO'GITANTNESS, f. Incogitancy. Scott. 
INCO'GITATIVE, adj. Wanting the powerof thought. 
.—Purely material beings, as clippings of our beards, and 
fenfible, thinking, perceiving, beings, fuch as we find our- 
felves, we will call cogitative and incogitative beings. 
Locke. 
INCOG'NITO, adv . [incognitus, Lat,] In a ftate of 
concealment: 
INC 
*Twas long ago 
Since gods came down incognito. Prior. 
INCOGNOS'CIBLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, 
and cognofco, to know.] Incapable of being known. Scott. 
INCOHERENCE, or lNC0HE'RENCv,yi Want of co- 
hefion ; loofenefs of material parts.—If plafter be beaten 
into an impalpable powder, when poured out it will emu¬ 
late a Liquor, by reafon that the fmallnefs and incoherence 
of the parts do both make them eafy to be put into mo¬ 
tion, and makes the pores they intercept fo filial], that 
they interrupt not the unity or continuity of the mats. 
Boyle. —Want of conneftion ; incongruity;' inconlequence 
of argument; want of dependence of one part upon ano¬ 
ther.— Incoherences in matter, and fuppofitions without 
proofs, put handfomely together, are apt to pals for llrong 
reafon. Locke. 
INCOHERENT, adj. Wanting cohelion ; loofe ; not 
fixed to each other.—Had the ftrata of (tone become fo- 
]id, but the matter whereof they conlift continued lax and 
incoherent, they had confequently been as pervious as thole 
of marie or gravel. Woodward. —Inconfequential; incon- 
fillent; having no dependence of one part upon another. 
—We have inltances of perception whilll we are afieep, 
and retain the memory of them ; but how extravagant 
and incoherent are they, and how little conformable to the 
perfeftion of a rational being ! Locke. 
INCOHERENTLY, adv. Inconfiftently ; inconfe- 
quentially.—The charafter of Eurylochus is the imita¬ 
tion of a perfon confounded with fears, (peaking irration¬ 
ally and incoherently. Broome. 
INCOHERENTNESS,/ Inconfillency ; want of co- 
hefion. 
INCO'HIBLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and co- 
fiiheo, to reftrain.] Incapable of being reltrained. Cole. 
INCOLU'MITY, f. f ncolumitas, Lat.], Safety ; fecu- 
rity. Very little in ufe. —The parliament is neceflary to af- 
fert and preferve the national rights of a people, with the 
incolumity and welfare of a country. Howel. 
INCOMBUSTIBILITY, f The quality of refilling 
fire fp that it cannot confume.—The ftone in the Apen¬ 
nines is remarkable for its (dining quality, and the ami¬ 
anthus for its incombuflibility. Ray. 
INCOMBUS'TIBLE, adv. Not to be confumed by fire. 
—It agrees in this common quality aferibed unto both, 
of being incombuflib/e, and not confumable by fire. Wilkins, 
Incombustible Cloth. See Asbestus. 
INCOMBUS'TIBLENESS, f. The quality of not be¬ 
ing walled by fire. 
IN'COME, f. Revenue; produce of any thing.—Thou 
who repinell at the plenty of thy neighbour, and the 
greatneis of his incomes, confider what are frequently the 
difmal confequences of all this. South. 
No fields afford 
So large an income to the village lord. Dry den. 
INCOMMENSURABILITY, f. The (late of one 
thing with refpeft to another, wdien they cannot be com¬ 
pared by any common meafure.—Ariftotle mentions the 
incommenfurability of the diagonal of a fquare to its fide. 
Reid. 
INCOMMENSURABLE, adj. [Fr. from in, con, and 
menfurabilis, Lat.] Not to be reduced to any meafure com¬ 
mon to both ; not to be meafured together, fuch as that 
the proportion of one to the other can be told.—Our de¬ 
putations about vacuum or fpace, incommenfurable quanti¬ 
ties, in the infinite divifibility of matter, and eternal du¬ 
ration, will lead us to fee the weaknels of our nature. 
Watts. 
Incommensurable Lines, Numbers, or Quanti¬ 
ties, are fuch as have no common meafure, or no line, 
number, or quantity, of the fame kind, that will meafure 
or divide them both without a remainder. Thus the 
numbers 15 and 16 are incommenfurable, becaufe, though 
15 can be meafured by 3 and 5, and 16 by 2, 4, and 8, 
there is yet no fingle number that will divide or meafure 
them both. 
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