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that move in oblique and arcuate lines, muft needs en¬ 
counter and difturb the one the other. Bacon. 
INCONGEAL'ABLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, 
and congelo, to congeal.] Incapable of being congealed. 
Scott. 
INCONGEAL'ABLENESS, /. The impoffibility of 
being congealed. Scott. 
INCONGRUENCE, / Unfuitablenefs; want of adap¬ 
tation.—Humidity is but relative, and depends upon the 
congruity or incongruence of the component particles of the 
liquor to the pores of the bodies it touches. Boyle. 
INCONGRUITY,/ Unfuitablenefs of one thing to 
another.—The fathers make ufe of this acknowledgment 
of the incongruity of images to the Deity, from thence to 
prove the incongruity of the worth ip of them. Stillingjlect. 
—Inconfiftency ; inconfequence; abfurdity; impropriety. 
—To avoid abfurdities and incongruities, is the fame law 
eftablilhed' for both arts; the painter is not to paint a 
cloud at the bottom of a picture, nor the poet to place 
what is proper to the end in the beginning of a poem. 
Dryden. —Difagreement of parts; want of fymmetry : 
She, whom after what form foe’er we fee. 
Is difcord and rude incongruity ; 
She, (he is dead, /he's dead. Donne. 
INCON'GRUOUS, adj. Unfuitable; not fitting.— Wifer 
heathens condemned the worfhip of God as incongruous to 
a divine nature, and a difparagement to the deity. Stilling - 
fleet. —Inconfiftent; abfurd. 
INCONGRUOUSLY, adv. Improperly; unfitly. 
INCONNEX'EDLY, adv. Without any connexion or 
dependance. Littleufed .—Others afcribed hereto, as acaufe, 
what perhaps but cafually or inconnexedly fucceeds. Brown. 
INCONNEX'ION, / The want of connexion, the want 
of coherence. In rhetoric ; the afyndeton. 
INCON'SCIONABLE, adj. Void of the fenfe of good 
and evil : without influence of confcience. Not ufed. —So 
inconfcionable are thefe common people,.and fo little feeling 
have they of God, or their own foul’s good. Spenfer. 
INCONSEQUENCE,/ [Fr. from inconfequentia, Lat.] 
Inconclufivenefs; want of juft inference.—This he be¬ 
llows the name of many fallacies upon; and runs on with 
fhowing the inconfequence of it, as though he did in earneft 
believe it were an impertinent anfwer. Stillingfleet. 
INCONSEQUENT, adj. Without juft conclufipn ; 
without regular inference.—The ground he affumes is 
unfound, and his illation from thence deduced inconfequcnt. 
Hakeiuill .—Men reft not iu falfe apprehenfions without 
abfurd and inconfequcnt dedudlions from fallacious founda¬ 
tions, and mifapprehended mediums, eredling conclufions 
no way inferrible from their premifes. Brown. 
INCONSEQUENTIAL, adj. Not leading to confe- 
quences.—She has fenfe and ambition ; but it is ftill the 
fenfe and ambition of a woman, that is, incon/equcntial. 
Chef erf eld. 
INCON'SEQUENTLY, adv. Without confequence, 
inconclufively, without force of argument. 
INCON'SEQUENTNESS, /. Inconfequence, inclufive- 
nefs. Scott. 
INCONSID'ERABLE, adj. Unworthy of notice; un¬ 
important ; mean ; of little value.—Let no fin appear fmall 
or inconfiderable by which an almighty God ts offended, 
and eternal falvation endangered. Rogers. 
INCONSID'ER ABLENESS,/ Small importance—To 
thofe who are thoroughly convinced of the inconfiderablenefs 
of this fhort dying life, in comparifon of that eternal ftate 
which remains for us in another life, the confideration of 
a future happinels is the moft powerful motive. Tillotfon, 
INCONSID'ER AC Y, f Thoughneffnefs—This is the 
the common effect of the inconjideracy of youth. Chefer- 
field. 
INCONSID'ER ATE, adj. [ inconjidere, Fr. inconfideratus, 
Lat.] Carelefs; thoughtlels ; negligent; inattentive ; in¬ 
advertent : ufed both of men and things.—It is a very 
unhappy token of our corruption, that there ftiould be any 
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fo inconfderate among us as to facrifice morality to poli¬ 
tics. Addifon. ■ 
When thy inconf derate hand 
Flings ope this cafement with my trembling name, 
Then think this name alive, and that thou thus 
In it offend’ft.my genius. Donne. 
Wanting due regard ; with of before the fubjedl.—He 
who laid down his life for the redemption of the tranf- 
greftions which were under the lirft Teftament, cannot be 
fo inconfiderate of our frailties. Decay of Piety, 
INCONSID'ERATELY, adv. Negligently ^ thought- 
lefsly; inattentively.—The king, tranfported with juft 
wrath, inconfderately fighting and precipitating the charge, 
before his whole numbers came up, was llain in the pur- 
fuit. Bacon. 
INCONSID'ERATENESS, / Careleffnefs; thought- 
leffnefs; negligence; want of thought; inadvertence; in¬ 
attention.—If men do know and believe that there is fuch 
a being as God, not to demean ourfelves towards him as 
becomes our relation to him, is great ftupidity and incon~ 
fideratenefs. Tillotfon. 
INCONSIDERA'TION, / Want of thought; inat¬ 
tention ; inadvertence.—St. Gregory reckons uncleannefs 
to be the parent of blindnefs of mind, in confide ration, pre¬ 
cipitancy or giddinefs in adtions, and felf-love. Taylor. 
INCONSIS'TENCE, or Inconsistency, /. Such op- 
polition as that one propofition infers the negation of the 
other; fuch contrariety that both cannot be together.—. 
There is a perfedl inconjijlency between that which is of debt, 
and that which js of free gift. South.- —Abfurdity in ar¬ 
gument or narration ; argument or narrative, where one 
part deftroys the other ; lelf-contradidlion. Incongruity. 
—Mutability of temper, and inconfflency with ourfelves, is 
the greateft weaknel’s of human nature. Addifon.- —If a 
man would regifter all his opinions upon love,, politics, 
religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconfJlencies and 
contradidlions would appear at laft. Swift. —Unfteadinefs • 
changeablenefs. 
INCONSISTENT, adj. Incompatible; notfuitable; 
incongruous; followed by with. —Finding no kind of com¬ 
pliance, but lharp proteftations againft the demands, as 
inconfjlent with confcience, juftice, or religion, the confer¬ 
ence broke off. Clarendon. —Contrary, fo as that one infers 
the negation or deltrudlion of the other.—The idea of an 
infinite fpace or duration is very obfcure and confufed 
becaufe it is made up of two parts very different, if not 
inconfjlent. Locke. —Abfurd ; having parts of which one 
deftroys the other. 
INCONSISTENTLY, adv. Abfurdly; incohgruoufiy 5 
with felf-contradiflion. 
INCONSISTENTNESS,/ Inconfiftence; incongruity; 
abfurdity; unfteadinefs. 
INCONSIS'TING, adj. Notconfiftent; incompatible 
with. Not ufed. —The perfons and adiions of a farce are 
all unnatural, and the manner? falfe; that is, inconffma- 
with the charadlers of mankind. Dryden. 
INCONSO'LABLE, adj. Not to be comforted; for- 
rowful beyond fufceptibility of comfort.—Her women will- 
reprefent to me that fhe is inconfolable, by reafon of my 
unkindnefs. Addifon. 
INCONSO'LABLENESS, f. The ftate of being incon- 
folable. Scott. 
INCONSO'LABLY, adv. In an inconfolable manner. 
INCON'SONANCY, / Difagreement with itfeif. 
INCONSPICUOUS, adj. Jndifcernible ; not percepti¬ 
ble by the fight.—When an excellent experimenter had 
taken pains in accurately filling up a tube of mercury, 
we found that yet there remained ftore of inconfpicuous 
bubbles. Boyle. 
INCONSTANCY,/, f inconfantia, Lat. inconfance, Fr. 
from inconf ant. Unfteadinefs; want of fteady adherence • 
mutability of temper or affedlion.—I have fuffered more 
for their lakes, more than the villainous inconfancy of man 
is able to bear. Skakefpeare. 
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