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To INDAM'AGE, v. a. To endamage. 
INDAM'AGEMENT,/. An endamagement. 
To INDANGER, v. a. To endanger. 
INDAPOUR', a feaport of the ifland of Sumatra, fitu- 
ated on the fouth-weft coall, Lat. x. 30. S. Ion. ico. 50. 
E. Greenwich. 
To INDART', v. a. [from in and dart.'] To dart in, 
to Itrike in : 
I’ll look to like, if looking liking move ; 
But no more deep will I indart my eye, 
Than your content gives Itrength to make it fly. Shake/, 
INDE'A, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Yamina, 
on the river of the fame name. 
To INDE'AR, v. a. To endear, to render dear to. 
INDEAR'MENT, fi. An endearment; the aft of ren¬ 
dering dear. 
To iNDEBT', v. a. To put into debt; to oblige; to 
put under obligation.—Forgive us our fins, for we for¬ 
give every one that is indebted to us. Luke xi. 4.. 
He for himfelf. 
Indebted and undone, lias nought to bring. Milton. 
INDEBT'ED, part. adj. Obliged by fomething receiv¬ 
ed ; bound to reltitution ; having incurred a debt. It 
has to before the perfon to whom the debt is due, and for 
before the thing received.—If the courfe of politic affairs 
cannot in any good courfe go forward without fit inftru- 
ments, and that which fitteth them be their virtues, let 
polity acknowledge itfelf indebted to religion ; godlinels 
being the chiefeft top and well-fpring of all true virtues, 
even as God is of all things. Hooker. —Let us reprefent to 
our louls the love and beneficence for which we daily 
Hand indebted to God. Rogers. 
INDE'CENCY, fi .. [ indecence , Fr.] Any thing unbe¬ 
coming; any thing contrary to good manners ; fomething 
wrong, butlcarcely criminal.—He will in vain endeavour 
to reform indecency in his .pupil which he allows in him- 
icl£. Locke. 
INDE'CENT, adj. Unbecoming ; unfit for the. eyes or 
.ears.—Charafters, where obfeene words were proper in 
.their mouths, but very indecent to be heard. Dryden. 
INDE'CENTLY, adv. Without decency ; in a manner 
.contrary to decency.—He was the eafy and profufe dupe 
.of women, and in fome inftances indecently lo. Ckefierfidd. 
INDE'CENTNESS, /. Indecency. 
INDECID'UOUS, adj. Not falling; not filed. Ufed of 
trees that do not filed their leaves in winter.—We find 
the ftatue of the fun framed with rays about the head, 
which were the incleciduous and unfliaken locks of Apollo. 
Brown. 
INDEC'IMABLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and 
decimo, to tithe.] Exempt from tithes, not liable to pay 
tithes. Scott. 
INDECIS'ION, f. Want of determination.—The term 
indecifion in a man’s charafter implies an idea very nicely 
different from irrelolution ; yet it has a tendency to pro¬ 
duce it. Skenjlone.—Indecifion is the natural accomplice of 
violence. Burke. 
INDECLI'NABLE, adj. [Fr. from indeclinabilis, Lat. ] 
Not varied by terminations.!—Pondo is an indeclinable 
word, and when it is joined to numbers it lignifies libra. 
Arbuthmt. 
INDEC'OROUS, adj. [ indecorus , Lat.] Indecent; un¬ 
becoming.—What can be more indecorous than for a crea¬ 
ture to violate the commands, and trample upon the au¬ 
thority, of that awful excellence to whom lie owes his 
life ? Norris. 
INDEC'OROUSNESS, f. Indecency. Scott. 
INDECO'RUM, f. [Latin.] Indecency; fomething 
tinbecoming : 
The foft addrefs, the cafligated grace, 
Are indecorums in the modern maid. Yeung. 
INDEE'D, adv. In reality ; in truth j in verity,— 
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Though fuch affemblies he had indeed lor religion's fake, 
hurtful neverthelefs they may;prove, as well in regard of 
their fitnefs to ferve the turn of heretics and fuch as pri¬ 
vily will venture to inftii their poifon into new minds. 
Hooker. —Above common rate.. This ufe-is emphatical_ 
Such fons of Abranam, how highly foever they may have 
the luck to be thought of, are far from being Ilraelites 
indeed. South. 
I were a bead, indeed , to do you wrong, 
I who have lov’d and honour’d you fo long, Dryden. 
This is to be granted that. A particle of conneftion__ 
This limitation, indeed, of our author will fave thofe the 
labour who would look for Adam’s heir amonglt the race 
of brutes; but will very little contribute to the diicovery 
cf one next heir amonglt men. Locke. 
Some fons indeed, fome very few, we fee, 
Who keep tlieml'elves from this infeftion- free. Dryden 
It is ufed fometimes as a flight aflertion or recapitulation 
in a fenfe hardly perceptible or explicable, and, though 
fome degree of oblcure power is perceived, might, even 
where it is properly enough inferted, be omitted without 
mifs.—I laid I thought it was confederacy between the 
juggler and the two fervants; tlio’ indeed I had no reafon 
fo to think. Bacon. —It is ufed to note conceflion in com- 
parifons.—Againfl thefe forces were prepared to the num¬ 
ber of near one hundred fliips; not fo great of bulk in¬ 
deed, but of a more nimble motion. Bacon. 
INDEFATIGABILITY, / Indefatigablenefs. 
INDEFATIGABLE, adj. \_in and defatigo, Lat.] Un¬ 
wearied ; not tired; not exhaulted by labour.—The am¬ 
bitious perfon mult rife early and lit up late, and purfue 
his defign with a conllant indefatigable attendance; he 
muft be infinitely patient and fervile. South. 
Who fliall fpread his airy flight, 
Upborne with indefatigable wings, 
Over the Vaft abrupt ? Milton. 
INDEFAT'IGABLENESS, f Perfiflency.—Becaufe 
they .come fliort of his indefatigablenefs. Parncl. 
INDEFAT'IG ABLY, adv. Without wearinefs.—A 
man indefatigably zealous in the fervice of the church and 
ftate, and whole writings have highly deferved of both. 
Dryden. 
INDEFE'ASIBLE, adj. A law term: incapable of be¬ 
ing defeated ; irreverfible. See Indefeisible. 
INDEFECTIBIL'ITY, fi. [from indefefiliblc. ] The 
quality of fuffering no decay ; of being fubjeft to no de- 
feft. 
INDEFEC'TIBLE, adj. [in and defettus, Lat.] Unfail¬ 
ing ; not liable to deleft or decay. 
INDEFEI'SIBLE, adj. fiindefiaifible, Fr.] Not to be cut 
off; not to be vacated ; irrevocable.—So indefieifible is our 
eftate in thofe joys, that, if we do not fell it in reverfion, 
we fliall, when once in veiled, be beyond the poflibility of 
ill hulbandry. Decay of Piety. 
INDEFENSIBLE, adj. [in and indefenfus, Lat.] What 
cannot be defended or maintained.—As they extend the 
rule of confulting Scripture to all the aftions qf common 
life, even fo far as to the taking up of a llraw, fo it is al¬ 
together falfe or indefenfiiblc. Sanderfon. 
INDEFINITE, adj. [ indejinitus, Lat. indefini, Fr.] Not 
determined ; not limited ; not fettled.—Though a pofition 
Ihould be wholly rejefted, yet that negative is more preg¬ 
nant of direction than an indefinite ; as allies are more ge¬ 
nerative than dull. Bacon .—Large beyond the conipre- 
henfion of man, though not abfolutely without limits.— 
Though it is not infinite, it may be indefinite-, though it 
is not boundlefs in itfelf, it may be fo to human compre- 
henlion. SpeLlator. 
INDEFINITELY, adv. Without any fettled or deter¬ 
minate limitation.—We obferve that cuftom, whereunto 
St. Paul alludeth-, and whereof the fathers of the church 
in their writings make often mention, to Ihow indefinitely 
what 
