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dally when applied to perfons. —There is not one of thefe 
fubjefts that would not fell a very indifferent paper, could 
I think of gratifying the public by fuch mean and bale 
methods. Addifon. 
Some things admit of mediocrity s 
A counfellor, or pleader at the bar, 
May want Meflala’s pow’rful eloquence. 
Or be lefs read than deep Calfelius ; 
Yet this indff'rent lawyer is efteem’d. Rofcommon. 
In the fame fenfe it has the force of an adverb.—I am my- 
felf indifferent honelf; but yet I could accufe me of fuch 
things, that it were better that my mother had not borne 
me. Skakefpeare. 
INDIFFERENTLY, adv. [: indifferenter , Lat.] With¬ 
out diftinftion; without preference.—Whitenefs is a mean 
between all colours, having itfelf indifferently to them all, 
fo as with equal facility to be tinged with any of them. 
Newton. —Equally ; impartially.—They may truly and in- 
differently minifter juftice. Common Prayer. —In a neutral 
date; without wilh or averfion : 
Set honour in one eye, and death i’ th’ other, 
And I will look on death indifferently. Skakefpeare. 
Not well; tolerably ; paflably; middling.—An hundred 
and fifty of their beds, fown together, kept me but very 
indifferently from the floor. Gulliver's Travels. 
INDIF'FERENTNESS,_/i The date of being indiffer¬ 
ent; indifference. 
IN'DIGENCE, or Indigency, [Fr. indigentia, Lat.] 
Want; penury; poverty.—Where there is happinefs, 
there muff not be indigency, or want of any due comforts 
of life. Burnet. 
For ev’n that indigence, that brings me low. 
Makes me myfelf and him above to know. Drydcn. 
IN'DIGENE, f. \fndigena, Lat.] A native.—The ala- 
ternus, which we have lately received from the hotteft 
parts of Languedoc, thrives with us, as if it were an indi¬ 
gene. Evelyn. 
INDIGENTTAL, adj. Indigenous; native; produced 
in a country; born in a country. Cole. 
INDI'GENOUS, adj. [indigene, Fr. indigena, Lat.] Na¬ 
tive to a country ; originally produced or born in a re¬ 
gion.—Negroes were all tranfported from Africa, and are 
not indigenous or proper natives of America. Brown. 
IN'DIGENT, adj. [Fr. indigens, Lat.] Poor; needy; 
neceflitous.—Charity confifts in relieving the indigent. Ad¬ 
difon. —In want; wanting ; with oft 
Rejoice, O Albion, fever’d from the world. 
By nature’s wife indulgence; indigent 
Of nothing from without. Philips. 
Void; empty.—Such bodies have the tangible parts indi¬ 
gent of moilture. Bacon. 
IN'DIGENTNESS, /. The ftate of being indigent; 
poverty. Scott. 
INDIGEST', f. Any thing indigefted, or not fliaped : 
Be of good comfort, prince ; for you are bom 
To fet a form upon that indigejl. 
Which he hath left fo fhapelefs and fo rude. Skakefpeare. 
INDIGEST'ED, adj. [ xndigefle , Fr. indigejius, Lat.] 
Not feparated into diftinct orders ; not regularly dilpofed. 
.—This mafs, or indigejlcd matter, or chaos, created in the 
beginning, was without the proper form which it after¬ 
wards acquired. Raleigh. , 
Before the feas, and this terreftrial ball, 
One was the face of nature, if a face ; 
Rather a rude and indigejlcd mafs. Dryden. 
Not formed, or fliaped : 
Hence, heap of wrath, foul indigejled lump ; 
As crooked in thy manners as thy (hape. Skakefpeare. 
.Not well confidered and methodifed,—By irkfome defor¬ 
mities, through endlefs and fenfelefs effulions of indigejlcd 
prayers, they oftentimes difgrace the worthielt part of 
Chriftian duty towards God. Hooker .—Not concofted in 
the ftomach : 
Dreams are bred 
From riling fumes of indigejled food. Dryden. 
Not brought to fuppuration.—His wound was indigejlcd 
and inflamed. Wifeman. 
INDIGEST'EDNESS, f. The ftate of being indigefted. 
Scott. 
INDIGESTIBLE, adj. Not conquerable in the ho¬ 
rn ach ; not convertible to nutriment.—Eggs are the moll 
nourilhing and exalted of all animal food, and moll indi- 
gejlible: no body can digeft the fame quantity of them as 
of other food. Arbuthnot. 
INDIGEST'IBLENESS, f. The ftate or quality of be¬ 
ing indigeftible. 
INDIGES'TION, f. A morbid weaknefs in the fto- 
mach; want of concoftive power.—The ftate of meats un- 
concofted.—The fumes of indigefion may indifpofe men to 
thought, as well as to difeafes of danger and pain. Temple. 
INDIGE'TES, a name which the ancients gave to fome 
of their gods. There are various opinions about the ori¬ 
gin and fignification of this word. Some pretend it was 
given to all the gods in general; and others, only to the 
demigods, or great men deified. Others fay, it was given 
to fuch gods as were originally of the country, or rather 
fuch as were the gods of the country that bore this name; 
and others again hold it was aferibed to fuch gods as were 
patrons and protestors of particular cities. Laftly, others 
hold indigetes to be derived from inde genitus, or in loco de- 
gens, or from inde and ago, for dego, “ I live, I inhabit 
which laft opinion feems the molt probable. ’ The gods to 
whom the Romans gave the name indigetes were, Faunus, 
Vella, Aineas, Romulus, all the gods of Italy; and at 
Athens, Minerva, fays Servius; and at Carthage, Dido. 
It is true, we meet with Jupiter Indiges: but that Jupiter 
Indiges is ASneas, not the great Jupiter; as we may fee 
in Livy, lib. i. cap. 3. in which laft fenfe Servius allures 
us, indiges comes from the Latin in diis ago, “ I am among 
the gods.” Among thefe indigetes gods, there was none 
more celebrated, nor more extenfively worlhipped, than 
Hercules. 
INDIGIR'KA, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the 
Frozen Sea in lat. 73. N. Ion. 144. 14. E. 
To INDI'GITATE, v. a. \indigito, Lat.] To point out; 
to Ihow by the fingers.—Antiquity exprefled numbers by 
the fingers; the deprefling this finger, which in the left 
hand implied but fix, in the right hand indigitated fix 
hundred. Brown. 
INDI'GITATING, f. The aft of pointing out. AJk. 
INDIGIT A'TION, f. The aft of pointing out or fhow- 
ing, as by the finger.—Which things I conceive no ob- 
feure indigitation of Providence. More againjl Atheifm. 
INDI'GN, adj: \_indigne, Fr. indignus, Lat.] Unworthy; 
undeferving.—Where there is a kingdom that is altoge¬ 
ther unable or indign to govern, is it juft for another na¬ 
tion, that is civil or policed, to fubdue them? Bacon. —« 
Bringing indignity ; difgraceful. Not in ufe: 
And all indign and bafe adverfities 
Make head againft my eftimation. Skakefpeare. 
INDIG'NANCE,y? [a poetical word for] Indignation. 
—With great indignaunce he that fight forfook. Spenfer. 
INDIG'NANT, adj. [ indignans, Lat.] Angry; raging; 
inflamed at once with anger and difdain.—The lultful 
monller fled, purfued by the valorous and indignant Mar¬ 
tin. Arbuthnot and Pope. 
What rage that hour did Albion’s foul pofiefs. 
Let chiefs imagine, and let lovers guefs! ■ 
He ftrides indignant, and vfcith haughty cries 
To Angle fight the fairy prince defies. Ticket. 
INDIGNA'TION, [Fr. indignatio, Lat.] Anger min- 
