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•what was'done ; but not universally to bind for ever all 
prayers unto one only fafhion of utterance. Hooker. —We 
conceive no more than the letter beareth ; that is, four 
times, or indefinitely more than thrice. Brown .— A duty to 
which all are indefinitely obliged, upon fome occafipns, by 
the exprefs command of God. Snialridge .— To a degree 
indefinite.—If the word be indefinitely extended, that is, fo 
far as no human intellect can fancy any bounds of it, 
when they fee-what mult be the lealt part. Ray. 
INDEF'INITENESS, /. The ftate or quality of being 
indefinite. 
INDEFIN'ITUDE, f. Quantity not limited by our 
•underitanding, though yet finite.—They arife to a llrange 
and prodigious multitude, if not indefinitude, by their va¬ 
rious politions, combinations, and conjunctions. Hale. 
IN'DEH SOU', a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Natolia : 100 miles eaft of Kiutaja. 
INDF.LIB'ERATE, or Indelib'erated, adj. [ i.ideli - 
here, Fr. in and deliberate .] Unpremeditated; done with¬ 
out confideration.—Aftions proceeding from blandilh- 
ments, or fweet perfuafions, if they be indeliberated, as in 
children who want the ufe of reafon, are not prefentiy free 
aCtion. Bramhall. —The love of God better can confift 
with the indeliberate cornmifiions of many fins, than with 
an allowed perliltance in any one. Government of the Tongue. 
INDEL'IBLE, adj. \indelebilis, Lat. It fhould be writ¬ 
ten indeleble.] Not to be blotted out or effaced.—Wilful 
perpetration of unworthy aCtions brands with indelible 
characters the name and memory. King Charles. 
Thy heedlefs fleeve will drink the colour’d oil,. 
And fpot indelible thy pocket foil. Gay. 
Not to be annulled.—They are endued with indelible 
power from above to feed, to govern this houfehold, and 
to confecrate pallors and ftewards ef it to the world’s end. 
Spratt. 
INDEL'IBLENESS, /. The ftate or quality of being 
indelible. 
INDEL'ICACY,/. Want of delicacy; want of elegant 
decency.—Your papers would be chargeable with worfe 
than indelicacy , they would be immoral, did you treat de- 
teftable uncleannels as you rally an impertinent felf-love. 
Addifon. 
INDEL'ICATE, adj. Wanting decency; void of a 
quick lenfe of decency.—Nothing but firft or fecond na¬ 
ture could continue cuftoms fo apparently indelicate. Clubb. 
INDELOVOY', a town of Hindooitan, in the country 
of Dowlatabad : four miles South of Neennul, and fifty 
north-north-eaft of Beder. 
INDEMNIFICATION, f. [from indemnify.'] Security 
againit lots or penalty. Reimbursement of lofs or pe¬ 
nalty. 
To INDEM'NIFY, v. a. [in and damnify.] To fecure 
againft lofs or penalty. To maintain unhurt.—Infolent 
fignifies rude and haughty; indemnify to keep fafe. Watts. 
INDEMNIFYING, f. The aCt of fecuring from lols. 
INDEMNITY, /. [indemnity, Fr.] Security from pn- 
nilhment; exemption from punilhment.—I will ufe all 
means, in the ways of amnelty and indemnity, which may 
mod fully remdve all fears, and bury all jealoufies in for¬ 
getful nefs. King Charles. 
Indemnity, An law, the faving liarmlefs; or a writing 
to fecure one from all damage and danger that may eniue 
from any aft. Thus, on the appropriation of a church 
to any college, See. when the archdeacon lofes for ever 
his induftion-inoney, the recompense he receives yearly 
out of the church fo appropriate, as 12d. or zs. more or 
lefs, as a penfion agreed at the time of the appropriating, 
is called indemnity. MS. in Bibl. Cotton, p. 84. Afts of 
indemnity are paffed every fefiion of parliament for the 
relief of thofe who have neglected to take the oaths, to 
qualify them for their refpeftive offices. 
INDEMON'STR ABLE, adj. Not capable of being de- 
jnonftrated.—We find fome of the axioms of geometry 
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mentioned by Ariftotie as axioms and indemonfiralte prin- 
cip les of mathematical reafoning. Reid. 
I A'DEMON'STR ABLENESS, f The ftate or quality 
of bedng indemonftrable. Scott. 
IN 'DEN, a town of Swifferland, in the Valais’: eighteen 
miles >eaft of Sion. 
IN'D'EN HO'TUN, a town of Chinefe Tartary, the ca¬ 
pital of the Manchoo Tartars, where they began to 
eftablilh their empire over China: 420 miles eaft-norfh- 
eaft of Pekin. Lat. 41. 46. N. ion. 142. 22. E. Ferro. 
INDENIZATION, f. The act of making: free. Cole. 
To INDEN'IZE, v. a. [from is -and denizen.] To make- 
free. Cole. 
To INDEN'IZEN, v. a. To make free. 
To INDENT',, v.a. [in and dens, Lat. a tooth.] To 
mark any thing with inequalities like a row of teeth ; to 
cut in and out; to make to wave or undulate.—The mar¬ 
gins on each fide do not terminate in a ftraight line, but 
are indented. Woodward. 
About his neck 
A green and gilded fnake had wreath’d itfelf, 
Who with her head, nimble in threats, approach’d 
The opening of his mouth ; but fuddenly, 
Seeing Orlando, it unlink’d itfelf. 
And with indented glides did flip away 
Into a bulh. Shakcfpeaa. 
The ferpent then, not with indented wave, 
Prone on the ground, as lince; but on bis rear 
Circular bale of rifing folds, that tower’d 
Fold above folJ, a furging maze! Milton. 
Trent, who, like fome earth-born giant, fpreads 
His thirty arms along the indented meads. Milton. 
To INDENT', v.n. [from the method of cutting coun¬ 
terparts of a contract together, that, laid on each other, 
they may fit, and any want of conformity may difeover a 
fraud.] To contraft; to bargain ; to make a compadt.—• 
He defeends to the folemnity of a pafl and covenant, and 
has indented with us. Decay of Piety. 
Shall we buy treafon, and indent with fears, 
When they have loft and forfeited th#rnfelves ? Shakefp. 
INDENT',/. Inequality; incifure; indentation. This 
is little ufed : 
Trent lhall not wind with fuch a deep indent. 
To rob me of fo rich a bottom here. Shakefpeare. 
INDENTATION, f. An indenture; waving in any 
figure.—The margins do not terminate in a ftraight line, 
but are indented ;. each indentation being continued in a 
fmall ridge, to the indentation that anfwers it on the oppo- 
fite margin. Woodward. 
INDENTING, J'. The aft of cutting with inequali¬ 
ties ; of ftipulating by indenture, for one’s felf or for 
another ; with printers, the aft of placing a word at fome 
diftance from either extremity of the line. 
INDENTURE, f. [from to indent.] A writing con¬ 
taining fome contraft, agreement, or conveyance, between 
two or more perfons, being indented in the top anfwer- 
able to another part, which hath the lame contents. Co. 
Lit. 229. A deed of bargain and lale of freehold lands. 
See. muft be by indenture, inrolled, &c. 27 Hen. VIII. 
c. 16. Words in indentures, though of one party only, 
are binding to both parlies. Cro. Eiiz. 202, 657. See the 
article Apprentice. 
INDEPENDENCE, or Independency, f. [indepen- 
dance, Fr. from in and dependence.] Freedom ; exemption 
from reliance Or controul ; ftate over which none has 
power.—Dreams may give us fome idea of the great ex¬ 
cellency of a human foul, and fome intimations of its in¬ 
dependency on matter. Addifon. —Let fortune do her worit, 
whatever fhe makes us lole, as long as Ihe never tfiakbs us 
loie our honeity and our mdependcnce. Pope, 
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