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INCORRUPT'IBLES, f. The name of a feft which 
Sprang out of the Eutychians. Their didinguifliing tenet 
Was, that the body of Jefus Chrid was incorruptible ; by 
which they meant, that, after and from the time wherein 
lie was formed in the womb of his holy mother, he was 
not fufceptible of any change, or alteration ; not even of 
any natural and innocent paflions, as of hunger, third:, 
Sec. fo that he ate without any occafion, before his death, 
as well as after his refurreftiom And hence it was that 
they took their name. 
INCORRUPT'IBLY, adv. In a manner not to be cor¬ 
rupted. 
INCORRUP'TION, f. Incapacity of corruption.—So 
alfo is the refurreftion of the dead ; it is town in corrup¬ 
tion, it is raifed in incorruption. i Cor. 
INCORRTJPT'NESS, f. Purity of manners; honefty ; 
integrity.—Probity of mind, integrity, and incorruptnefs of 
manners, is preferable to fine parts and Subtile Specula¬ 
tions. Woodward. —Freedom from decay or degeneration. 
INCRASSAN'TIA, f'.phi. With phyficians, medicines 
adapted to improve or thicken the blood and juices. Scott. 
Tv INCRAS'SATE, [in and craffus, Lat.] To 
thicken ; the contrary to attenuate.—If the cork be too 
light to fink under the Surface, the body of water may be 
attenuated with Spirits of wine; if too heavy, it may be 
incraffaied with Salt. Brown. 
INCRAS'SATINGjyi The aft of making thick ; in- 
craflation. 
INCRASSA’TION, f. The aft of thickening. The 
Hate of growing thick.—Nothing doth conglaciate but 
water ; for the determination of quickiilver is fixation, that 
of milk coagulation, and that of oil incraffation. Brown. 
INCRAS'SATIVE, adj. Having the quality of thick¬ 
ening. 
INCRAS'SATIVE, /. A medicine which has the power 
of thickening the blood and juices.—The two latter indi¬ 
cate reflringents to Haunch, and incraf/atives to thicken, 
the blood. Harvey. 
To INCREASE, v. n. [fe and crefco, Lat.] To grow 
more in number, or greater in bulk ; to advance in quan¬ 
tity or value, or in any quality capable of being more or 
lefs.—Hear and obferve to do it, that it may be well with 
thee, and that ye may increafe mightily. Deut. vi. 3. 
Henry in knots involv’d his Emma’s name 
Upon this tree ; and, as the tender mark, 
Grew with the year, and widen’d with the bark, 
Venus had heard the virgin’s Soft addrefs. 
That as the wound the paflion might increafe. Prior. 
To be fertile—Fifties are more numerous or increafing 
than beads or birds, as appears by their numerous Spawn. 
Hale. 
To INCRE'ASE, v. a. [See Encrease.] To make more 
or greater.—He hath increafed in Judah mourning and la¬ 
mentations. Sant. 
Hye thee from this fiaughter-houfe, 
Led thou increafe the number of the dead. Shakefpeare. 
INCRE'ASE, f. Augmentation; the date of growing 
more or greater: 
Hail, bards triumphant 1 born in happier days, 
Whofe honours with increafe of ages grow', 
As dreams roll down, enlarging as they flow. Pope. 
Increment; that which is added to the original dock.— 
Take thou no ufury of him, nor increafe. Levit. —Produce. 
—The increafe of the threlhing-fioor, and the increafe of 
the w'ine-prefs. Numb. 
As Hefiod Sings, Spread waters o’er thy field. 
And a mod jud and glad increafe ’twill yield. Denham , 
Generation : 
Into her womb convey Sterility ; 
Dry up in her the organs of increafe, 
And from her derogate body never Spring 
.A babe. Shakefpeare, 
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Progeny.—-All the increafe of thy houfe Hull die in the 
flower of their age. Samuel. 
Him young Thoafa bore, the bright increafe 
Of Phorcys. Pope. 
The date of waxing, or growing full-orbed. USed of the 
moon.—Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs, will grow 
Sooneft, if Set or cut in the increafe of the moon. Bacon. 
INCREASER, f He who increafes. That which in¬ 
creases.—-Whether civil government be Such a nurfe and 
increafer of bleflings. Burke. 
INCREASING, f. The aft of growing. 
INCREA'TE, or Increa'ted, adj. Not created.— 
Since the defire is infinite, nothing but the. abfoiute and 
inercated infinite can adequately fill it. Cheyne. 
INCREDIBILITY, f. [incredibilhe, Fr.] The quality 
of lurpafling belief.—For objefts of incredibility, none are 
So removed from all appearance of truth as thofe of Cor¬ 
neille’s Andromeda. Dryden. 
INCRED'IBLE, adj. [tncredibilis , Lat.] Surpafling be¬ 
lief; not to be credited.—The (hip Argo, that there 
might want no incredible thing in this fable, l’poke to them. 
Raleigh. 
PreSenting things impoflible to view, 
They wander through incredible to true. Granville. 
INCRED'IBLENESS, f. Quality of being not credible. 
INCRED'IBLY, adv. In a manner not to be believed 
INCREDU'LITY, f. [incredulite, Fr,] Quality of not 
believing ; hardnefs of belief.— He was more large in the 
description of Paradife, to take away all Scruple from the 
incredulity of future ages. Raleigh. 
INCRED ULOUS, adj. [incredule, Fr. incredulus, Lat.] 
Hard of belief; refufing credit.—I am not altogether in¬ 
credulous but there may be Such candles as are made of Sa¬ 
lamander's wool, being a kind of mineral which whiteneth 
in the burning, and confumeth not. Bacon. 
INCRED'ULOUSNESS, f. Hardnefs of belief; incre¬ 
dulity. 
INCRE'MABLE, adj. [in and cremo, Lat.] Not con¬ 
sumable by fire.—If from the Skin of the Salamander thefe 
iucremable pieces are compofed. Brown. 
IN'CREMENT, f. [incrementum , Lat.] Aft of growing 
greater.—Divers conceptions are concerning the Nile’s 
increment, or inundation. Brown. —Increafe; matter added. 
—This ftratum is expanded at top, Serving as the Semi¬ 
nary that furnifheth matter for the formation and incre¬ 
ment of animal and vegetable bodies. Woodward. —Produce: 
The orchard loves to wave 
With winter winds: the loolen’d roots now drink 
Large increment, earned of happy years. Philips. 
Increment, in the mathematics, is the Small increafe 
of a variable quantity. Newton, in his Treatife on Fluxi¬ 
ons, calls thefe by' the name of moments, and obferves that 
they are proportional to the velocity or rate of increafe of 
the flowing or variable quantities in an indefinitely Small 
time ; he denotes them by Subjoining a cipher, o, to the 
flowing quantity whofe moment or increment it is; thus 
*0 the moment of x. In the doftrine of increments, 
by Dr. Brooke Taylor and Mr. Emerfon, they are denoted 
bv points below the variable quantities ; as x. Some have 
alfo denoted them by accents underneath the letter, as x ; 
but it is now mere ulual to exprefs them by accents over 
the letter; as x. 
The Method o/Tncrements is a branch of analytics, in 
which a calculus is founded on the properties of the fuc- 
ceflive values of variable quantities, and their differences, 
or increments. 
The inventor of the method of increments was the 
learned Dr. Taylor, who in the year .171,5 publilhed a 
treatife upon it; and afterw'ards gave Some farther account 
and explication of it in the Philof. Tranf. as applied to 
the finding the Sums of-Series. And another ingenious 
and ealy treatife on the Same was publilhed by Mr. Emer- 
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