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to be inculcated, becaufe we are too apt to forget It. At* 
ter bury. 
IbfCUL'CATING, f. The aft of inforcing by repeated 
admonitions. 
INCULCA'TION, f. The aft of impreffingbyfrequent 
admonition ; admonitory repetition. 
INCUL'PABLE, adj. Unblameable; not reprehenfible. 
.—Ignorance, fo far as it may be refolved into natural in¬ 
ability, is as to men at lead inculpable, and confequently 
not the objeft of fcorn, bur pity. South. 
JNCUL'PABLENESS, f. The date of being blamelefs- 
JNCUL'PABEY, adv. Unblameably; without blame. 
—As to errors or infirmities, the frailty of man’s condi¬ 
tion has invincibly, and therefore inculpably, expofed him. 
South. 
To INCUL'PATE, v. a. To blame; to include one in 
the fault of another. 
INCULT', adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and cult us, 
cultivated.] Uncultivated ; untilled : 
Her forefts huge. 
Incult, robuft, and tall, by Nature’s hand 
Planted of old. 7 homfon. 
INCUM'BENCY, f. [from incumbent.'] The aft of ly¬ 
ing upon another.—The date of keeping a benefice.— 
Thefe fines are only to be paid to the bifhop-during his 
incumbency in the fame fee. Swift. 
INCUM'BENT, adj. \_incumbens, Lat.] Reding upon ; 
lying upon.—The afeending parcels of air, having now 
little more than the weight of the incumbent water to lur- 
mount, were able both fo to expand themfelves as to fill 
up that part of the pipe which they pervaded, and by 
preffing every way againd the fides of it, to lift upwards 
with them what water they found above them. Boyle. 
With wings'expanded wide ourfelves we’ll rear, 
And fly incumbent on the dnfky air. Dryden. 
Impofed as a duty.—All men, truly zealous, will perform 
fhofe good works that are incumbent on all Chridians. 
Spratt. 
INCUM'BENT, f. He who is in prefent pofleflion of a 
benefice.—In many places the whole ecclfefiaftical dues are 
jn lay hands, and the incumbent lieth at the mercy or his 
patron. Swift. —He who is refident on his benefice ; he is 
called incumbent, becaufe he does, or at lead ought to, 
bend his whole dudy to difeharge the cure of his church. 
Co. Litt. 119. 
To INCUM'BER, v. a. \_encombrer , Fr.] To embarrafs. 
See Encumber : 
My caufe is call’d, and that long look’d-for day 
Is dill incumber'd with fome new delay. Dryden. 
INCUM'BERING, f. The aft of embarrafting. 
INCUM'BRANCE, J'. A cloy; an embarraffment. 
INCUNEA'TION, f. [from in, Lat. into, and cuneus, a 
wedge.] The aft of forcing in like a wedge. Bailey. 
To INCUR', v. a. [incurro, Lat.] To become liable to 
a punifhment or reprehenfion.—I have incurred difpleafure 
from inferiors for giving way to the faults of others. Hay¬ 
ward. 
They, not obeying, 
Incurr'd (what could they lefs ?) the penalty; 
And, manifold in fin, deferv’d to fall. Milton. 
To occur,; to prefs on the fenfes : with to or into —The 
motions of the minute parts of the bodies are invifible, 
and incur not to the eye ; but yet they are to be depre- 
hended by experience. Bacon .—The mind of man, even 
In fpirituals, acts with corporeal dependance; and fo is he 
helped or hindered in its operations according to the dif¬ 
ferent quality of external objefts that incur into the fenfes. 
South. 
INCURABIL'ITY. f. [ incura.bilite‘, Fr. from incurable .] 
Impoffibility of cure; utter infufeeptibility of remedy.— 
We’ll inftantly open a door to the manner of a proper 
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and improper confumption, together with the reafon of the 
incurability of the former,, and facile cure of the other. 
Harvey. 
INCU'RABLE, adj. [Fr. from in and curable .] Not 
admitting remedy; not to be removed by medicine; ir¬ 
remediable; hopelels.—A fchirrus is not abfoiutely incu¬ 
rable, becaufe it has been known that frefti palture has 
cured it in cattle. Arbuthnot. 
Stop the rage betime, 
Before the wound do grow incurable ; 
For, being green, there is great hope of help. Shakefpcare, 
INCU'RABLENESS, f. State of not admitting any 
cure. 
INCU'RABLY, adv. Without remedy.—We cannot 
know it is or is not, being incurably ignorant. Locke. 
INCU'RIOUS, adj. Negligent; inattentive.—The Cre¬ 
ator did not beftow fo much (kill upon his creatures, to 
be looked upon with a carelefs incurious eye. Dcrham. 
He feldom at the Park appear’d ; 
Yet, not incurious, was inclin’d 
To know the converfe of mankind. Swift. 
INCU'RIOUSNESS, f. Want of curiofity.—Young 
people have frequently an incurioufnefs about them. CheJ- 
terfleld. 
INCUR'RING, f. The aft of becoming liable to. 
INCUR'SION, f. [from incurro, Lat.] Attack; mif- 
chlevous occurrence.—Sins of daily iheurflon, and luch as 
human frailty is unavoidably liable to. South. —Invafion 
without conquelt; inroad ; ravage.—The incurfionsof the 
Goths difordered the affairs of the Roman empire. Ar¬ 
buthnot. 
The Parthian king hath gather’d all his holt 
Againit the Scythian, whole incurflor.s wild 
Have wafted Sogdiana. Milton. 
To INCUR'VATE, v. a. [from in, Lat. into, and curve, 
to bend.] To bend, to make crooked. 
INCUR'VATING, f. The aft of making crooked. 
INCURVA'TION, f [from incurvo, Lat.] The aft of 
bending or making crooked.—State• of being bent; cur- 
vity ; crookednefs.—One part moving while the other refts, 
one would think, fliould caufe an incurvation in the line. 
Glanville. —Flexion of the body in token of .reverence.__ 
He made ufe of afts of worth ip which God hath appro¬ 
priated ; as incurvation, and facrifice. Sailing fleet. 
To INCUR'VATE, v. a. [incurvo , Lat.] To bend ; to 
crook.—Sir Ifaac Newton has (liown, by feveral experi¬ 
ments of rays parting by the edges of bodies, that they are 
incurvatcd by the aftion of thefe bodies. Cheyne. 
INCUR'VITY, f. Crookednefs ; the ftate of bending 
inward.—The incurvity of a dolphin muft be taken not 
really, but in appearance, when they leap above water, and 
fuddenly Ihoot down again: ftraight bodies, in a fuddea 
motion, protruded obliquely downward, appear crooked. 
Brown. 
IN'CUS, f. [Latin.] An anvil, the block of iron on ■ 
which the fmith forges his work. In anatomy-, a bone of 
the inner part of the ear. 
INCUS'SION, fl. [from in, Lat. into, and qualio tujfus, 
to (hake.] The aft of (baking with feme degree of vio¬ 
lence. Scott. 
INDAG'ABLE, adj. [from indago, Lat. to fearch.] Ca¬ 
pable of being fearched. Cole. 
To IN'DAGATE, v. a. [indago, Lat.] To fearch ; to 
beat out. 
INDAGA'TION,Search; enquiry; examination.— 
Paracelfus directs us, in the indagation of colours, to have 
an eye principally upon (alts. Boyle. —part hath been dil- 
covered by himfelf, and fome by human indagation. Brown. 
INDAGA'TOR,/. A fearcher; an enquirer; an exa¬ 
miner.—The number of the elements of bodies requires 
to be fearched into by fuch fkilfui mlagalors of nature. 
Boyle , 
