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Be made the mark 
For all the people’s hate, the princefs’ curies, 
And his fon’s rage, or the old king’s inconjlancy. Denham . 
Diverfity ; diffimilitude.—As much inconjlancy and con- 
fufion is there in their mixtures or combinations ; for it 
is rare to find any of them pure and unmixt. Woodward. 
INCONSTANT, adj. [Fr. inconjlans, Lat.] Not firm 
in resolution ; not fteady in affection ; various of incli¬ 
nation ; wanting perfeverance: of perfons.—He is fo natu¬ 
rally inconjlant, that I marvel his foul finds not fome way 
to kill the body. Sidney. —Changeable ; mutable; vari¬ 
able : of things; 
O fwear not by the moon, th’ inconjlant moon, 
That monthly changes in her circled orb, 
Left that thy love prove likewife variable. Shakcfpeare. 
INCONSTANTLY, adv. Without conftancy. Scott. 
INCONSU'MABLE, adj. Not to be wafted.—By art 
were weaved napkins, Ihirts, and coats, inconfurnable by 
fire, anal wherein they burnt the bodies of kings. Brown. 
INCONSUMP'TIBLE, adj. Not to be fpent; not to be 
brought to an end ; not to be deftroyed by fire. This feems 
a more elegant word than inconfuviable. —Before I give any 
anfwer to this objection of pretended inconfumptible lights, 
I would gladly fee the efteCt undoubtedly proved. Digby. 
INCONTESTABLE, adj. Not to be difputed ; not 
admitting debate; uncontrovertible.— Our own being fur- 
nilhes us with an evident and incontejlable proof of a Dei¬ 
ty ; and I believe no body can avoid the cogency of it, 
who will carefully attend to it. Locke. 
INCONTES'TABLENESS, f. The ftate or quality of 
being inconteftable. Scott. 
INCONTESTABLY, adv. Indifputably; uncontro- 
vertibly.—Locke faw clearly, and proved incontejlably, that 
the fenfations we have by tafte, fmell, and hearing, are 
not refemblances of any thing in bodies. Reid. 
INCONTIG'UOUS, adj. Not touching each other ; not 
joined together.—They feemed part of fmall bracelets, 
confifting of equally-little incontiguous beads. Boyle. 
INCONTINENCE, or Incont'inency, J. Inability 
to reftrain the appetites ; unchaltity.—The words fne vejle 
dianam agree better with Livia, who had the fame of chaf- 
tity, than with either of the Julias, who were both noted 
for incontinency. Dryden. 
But beauty, like the fair hefperian tree, 
Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard 
Of dragon-watch with uninchanted eye, 
To fave her bloftoms, and defend her fruit 
Frojn the rafh hand of bold incontinence. Milton. 
Incontinence, in medicine, fignifies an inability in 
any of the organs to retain what fhould not be difeharged 
without the concurrence of the will. But incontinence 
is moft frequently ufed with regard to an involuntary 
difeharge of urine, otherwife called diabetes. 
Incontinence, in the eye of law, is of divers kinds; 
as in cafes of bigamy, rapes, fodomy, or getting baf- 
tards ; all which are punithed by ftatute. See 25 Hen. 
VIII. 6. 18 Eliz■ 7. 1 Jac. I. 11. Incontinency of priefts 
is punifhable by the ordinary, by imprifonment, &c, 
1 Hen. VII. 4. 
INCONTINENT, adj. Unchafte; indulging unlawful 
plealiire.—In thefe degrees have they made a pair of flairs 
to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, orelfe be 
incontinent before marriage. Skakefpeare .—Men fhall be 
levers of their own felves, falfe accufers, incontinent, fierce. 
2 Tim. iii. 3. 
INCONTINENT, adv. Shunning delay; immediately. 
—He fays he will return incontinent. Shakejpeare. 
They ran towards the far rebounded ncife, 
To weet what wight fo loudly did lament; 
Unto the place they came incontinent. Fairy Queen. 
INCONTINENTLY, adv. Unchaftely ; without re- 
ftraiut of the appetites.—Immediately ; at once. An ob. 
jolete fenfe, Spenfer. —The cauie of this war is no other than 
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that we will not incontinently fubinit ourfelves to our neigh- 
hours. Hayward. — Incontinently I left Madrid, and have 
been dogged and waylaid through feveral nations. Ar- 
buthnot and Pope. 
INCONTINENTNESS,/ Incontinence. Scott. 
INCONTROVERTIBIL'ITY, f. The ftate of being 
incontrovertible. 
INCONTROVERTIBLE, adj. Indifputable; not to 
be difputed. 
INCONTROVER'TIBLY, adv. To a degree beyond 
controverfy or difpute.—The Hebrew is incontrovcrtib/y the 
primitive and furelt text to rely upon ; and, to preferve 
the fame uncorrupt, there hath been uled the bigheft cau¬ 
tion humanity could invent. Brown. 
INCONVE'NIENCE, or Inconveniency, J. [inconve¬ 
nient, Fr.] Unfitnefs ; inexpedience.—They plead agsinft 
the inconvenience, not the unlawfulnefs, of popifh apparel; 
and againft the inconvenience, net the unlawfulnefs, of cere¬ 
monies in burial. Hooker. —Difadvantage; caufe of uneafi- 
nefs ; difficulty.—The things of another world, being dif- 
tant, operate but faintly upon us; to remedy this inconve - 
niency, we mult frequently revolve their certainty and im¬ 
portance. Alterbury. 
INCONVE'NIENT, adj. Incommodious; difadvan- 
tageous.—They lean to their old cuftoms, though they 
be more unjuft, and more inconvenient for the common 
people. Spenfer. —Unfit; inexpedient.—We are not to look 
that the church fhould change her public laws, although 
it chance that for fome particular men the fame be found 
inconvenient, efpecially when there may be other remedy 
againft particular inconveniencies. Hooker. v 
INCONVE'NIENTLY, adv. Unfitly; incommodioufty, 
Unfeafonably. Ainfworth. 
INCONVE'NIENTNESS, / The ftate of being incon¬ 
venient. Scott. 
INCONVER'SABLE, adj. Incommunicative; ill qua¬ 
lified by temper for converfation ; unfocial.—He is a per- 
fon very inconverfable. More. 
INCONVER'SABLENESS, J. The ftate or quality of 
being inconverfable. 
INCONVERTIBLE, adj. Not tranfmqtable ; incapa¬ 
ble of change.—It entereth not the veins, but taketh leave 
of the permeant parts, and accompanieth the inconverti¬ 
ble portion unto the fiege. Brown. 
INCONVERTIBLENESS, _/; The ftate or quality of 
being inconvertible. Scott. 
INCONVIN'CIBLE, adj. Not to be convinced ; not' 
capable of conviction. 
INCONVIN'CIBLY, adv. Without admitting convic¬ 
tion.—It is injurious unto knowledge obftinately and in- 
convincibly to fide with any one. Brown. 
INCO'NY, adj. [perhaps from in, and conn, to know. ] 
Unlearned ; artlefs. This fenj'e is uncertain. —In Scotland 
it denotes milchievoufly unlucky: as, He’s an incony fellowi 
To INCOR'DIATE, v.a. [from in, Lat. into, and cor,. 
the heart.] To fix in the heart. Cole. 
INCOR'DING, f. With farriers, a difeafe incident to 
horfes ; a kind of rupture in which the inteftines fall into 
the- Iheath. 
INCORONATA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Capitanata •, iixteen miles north 
of Afcoli. 
INCOR'PORAL, adj. Immaterial ; diftinft from mat¬ 
ter; diftinft from body.—Learned men have n.ot refolved 
us whether light be corporal or incorporal: corporal they 
lay it cannot be, becaufe then it would neither pierce the 
air, nor folid diaphanous bodies, and yet every day we 
fee the air illightened; incorporal it cannot be, becauie 
fometimts it aftefteth the fight with offence. Raleigh. 
Why do’ft thou bend thine eye on vacancy. 
And with th’ incorporal air do’ft hold ditbourfe. Shakfp. 
INCORPORAL'ITY, f. Immaterialnefs ; diftinfhiefs 
from body. 
INCOR'PORALLY, adv. Without matter; immate¬ 
rially. 
INCO R TOR ALNESS, 
