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Euclid demonftrates (prop. 117, lib. 10.) that the fide 
of a fquare and its diagonal are incommenfurable to each 
other. And Pappus, prop. 17, lib. y, fpeaks of incom- 
menfurable angles. It is commonly fuppofed that the di¬ 
ameter and circumference of a circle are incemmenfura- 
ble to each other; at lead their cotnmerifurability has ne¬ 
ver been proved. And Dr. Barrow furmifes even that 
they are infinitely incommenfurable, or that all poffible 
powers of them are incommenfurable. 
INCOfvIMEN'SURABLENESS, f. The date or quality 
of being incommenfurable; incommenfurability. 
INCOMMEN'SURATE, adj. [in, con, and met jura, Lat.] 
Not admitting one common meafure.—The diagonal line 
and fide of a quadrate, which, to our apprehenfion, are 
incommenfurat-, are yet commenfurable to the infinite com- 
prehenfion of the divine intellect. More. 
INCOMMEN'SURATENESS, /. The date or quality 
of being incommenfurate. 
INCOMMISCIBIL'ITY, f. The date or quality of 
being incommifcible. 
INCOMMIS'CIBLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, 
and commifceo, to mix.] Incapable of being mixed. Cole. 
To INCOM'MODATE, or To Incommo'de, v. a. [in - 
commodo, Lat. incommoder, Fr. ] To be inconvenient to; to 
hinder or embarrafs without very great injury. 
To INCOMMODE, v. a. [from in, Lat. contrary to, 
con with, and modus, a form.] To put to inconvenience ; to 
didurb the order ivithout doing much injury.—A gnat, 
planted upon the horn of a bull, begged the bull’s par¬ 
don ; but, rather than incommode ye, lays he, I’ll remove. 
V EJlrangc. 
INCOMMO’DING,/! The ad of putting to feme in¬ 
convenience. 
INCOMMO'DIOUS, adj. Inconvenient; vexations 
■without great milchief.—Things of general benefit, (for 
in this world vvhat is fo perfect that no inconvenience 
doth ever follow it?) may by fome accident be incommodi¬ 
ous to a few.- Hooker. 
INCOMMODIOUSLY, adv. Inconveniently ; not at 
0£iflS. 
INCOMMODIOUSNESS,/ Inconvenience.—Difeafes, 
diCorders, arid the incommodioufnefs of external nature, are 
inconfident with happinefs. Burnet. 
INCOMMODITY, f. [ incommodits, Fr. incommoditas, 
Lat.] Inconvenience; trouble.—If iron can be incorpo¬ 
rated with flint or done, without over-great charge, or 
other incommodity, the cheapnefs doth make the compound 
ltulf profitable. Bacon. 
INCOMMUNICABILITY, yi The quality of not be¬ 
ing impartible. 
INCOMMU'NICABLE, adj. Not impartible ; not to be 
made the common right, property, or quality, of more 
than one.—Light without darknel’s is the incommunicable 
claim of him that dwells in light inacceflible. GlanviLle. — 
Not to be exprefled ; not to be told.—Neither did he treat 
them with thefe peculiarities of favour in the extraordi¬ 
nary difeoveries of the golpel only, but alio of thole in¬ 
communicable revelations of the divine love, in reference to 
their own perfonal intered in it. South. 
INCOMMU'NICABLENESS, /. The date.or quality 
of being incommunicable. Scott. 
INCOMMU'NICABLY, adv. In a manner not to be 
imparted or communicated.—To annihilate is both in 
realbn, and by the content of divines, as incommumcably 
the effed of a power divine, and above nature, as is cre¬ 
ation itfelf. Haketoill. 
INCOMMU'NICATING, adj. Having no intercourfe 
with each other.— 1 The judgments and adminiflrations of 
common jultice are preferved from that confufion that 
would enlue, if the adminidration was by leveral incommu- 
nicating hands, or by provincial edablilhments. Hale. 
INCOMMU'TABLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, 
and commuto, to exchange.] Incapable of being exchanged. 
Scott. 
INCOMPACT', or Incompact'ed, adj. Not joined; 
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not cohering.—Salt, fay they, is the bafis Or foKdity and 
permanency in compound bodies, without which the other 
four elements might be varioufly blended, but would re¬ 
main incompaElfd. Boyle. 
INCOMPACT'ED, adj. Incompact; loofe ; wanting 
coherence. 
INCOM'PAR ABLE, adj. Excellent above compare ; 
excellent beyond ail competition.—My heart would not 
fufter me to omit any occafion, whereby .! might make the 
incomparable Pamela fee how much extraordinary devotion 
I bore to her fervice. Sidney . 
Now this malk v . 
Was cried incomparable, and til’ enftiing night 
Made it a fool and beggar. Shakefpeare . 
INCOM'PAR ABLENESS, Jj. Excellence beyond com¬ 
panion ; the date or quality of being incomparable. Scon:. 
INCOMPARABLY, adv. Beyond cornparifon; with¬ 
out competition.—Self-prefervation will oblige a man vo¬ 
luntarily to undergo any lefs evil to fecure himfelf, but 
from the probability of an evil incomparably greater. South. 
—Excellently ; to the higlied degree. A low phrafe.— 
There are the heads of Antoninus Pius, the Eaudinus, 
and Marcus Aurelius, all incomparably well cut. Addifon. 
To INCOM'PASS,, v. a. To encompafs ; to inclole on. 
every fide ; to furround. 
INCOMPASSING, f. The aft of incircling. 
INCOMPAS'SIONATE, adj. Void of pity ; void of 
tendernefs. 
INCOMPATIBILITY,/! [properly incornpetibility, from 
in and compcto, Lat.] Inconfiltency of one tiling with ano¬ 
ther.—He overcame that natural incompatibility, which hath 
been noted between the vulgar and, the fovereign favour. 
IVotlon .—The reafon of the itrefs reds not upon the incom- 
petibility of excefs of one infinitude above another, either 
in intenfion or extenfion ; but the incornpetibility of any 
multitude to be infinite. Hale. 
INCOMPATIBLE, [rather incompetible, as it is fome- 
times written.] Inconfident with lomething elfe; fitch 
as cannot lublid or cannot be poflelfed together with 
fomething elfe : it is followed by with. —Fortune and love 
have ever been fo incompatible, that it is no wonder, ma¬ 
dam, if, having had fo much of the one for you, I have 
ever found fo little of the other for myfelf. Suckling. — 
May not the outward exprefiions of love in many good 
Chridians be greater to fome other objed than to God ? 
Or is this incompetible -with the lincerity of the love of God ? 
Hammond. —It is fometimes with to. —The repugnancy of 
infinitude is equally incompatible to continued or fuccedive 
motion, and depends upon the impoflibility of things fuc- 
ceflive with infinitude. Hale. 
INCOMPATIBLY, adv. [for incompetibly .] Incon- 
fidently. 
INCOMPEN'SABLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, 
and compenfo, -to recompense. ] Incapable of being com- 
penlated ; incapable of recompence. 
INCOMPETENCY, f. [incompetence, Fr. from incompe¬ 
tent.'] Inability; want of adequate ability or qualification; 
—Our mot being able to dilcern the motion of a lhadow 
on a dial-plate, or that of the index upon a clock, ought 
to make us lenfible of the incompetency of our eyes to dil¬ 
cern fome motions of natural bodies incomparably dower 
than thefe. Boyle. 
INCOM'PETENT, adj. Not fuitable ; not adequate; 
not proportionate. In the civil law it denotes fome de- 
fed of right to do any tiling.—An equal attradion on all 
Tides of all matter, is jud equal to no attraction at alLj- 
and by this means all the motion in the univerfe mult 
proceed from external impulse alone, which is an incompe¬ 
tent caufe for the formation of a world. Bentley. 
INCOMPETENTLY, adv. Unluitably ; unduly. 
INCOMPETIBLE, and its derivatives; fee Incom¬ 
patible. 
INCOMPLE'TE, adj. Not perfect ; not finifhed.—In' 
incomplete ideas we are apt to impole on ourfelves, and 
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