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take ; w ithout deviation.—That divers limners at a dif- 
tance, without copy, Ihould draw the fame pifture. is more 
conceivable, than that matter Ihould frame itfelf lb iner- 
ringly according to the idea of its kind. Glanville. 
INER'RABLY, adv. Without error, infallibly, 
INER'RINGLY, adv . Without error, without miftake. 
Glanville. 
INERT, adj. \_iners, Lat.] Dull; fluggifli; motion- 
lefs: 
Informer of the planetary train ! 
Without whofe quickening glance their cumb’rous orbs 
Were brute unlively mafs, inert and dead. Thomfon. 
INERTIA o/'Matter, in philofophy, is defined by fir 
Ifaac Newton to be a paflive principle by which bodies 
perfill in their motion or reft, receive motion in propor¬ 
tion to the force imprefting it, and refill as much as they 
are refilled. It is alfo defined by the fame author to be a 
power implanted in all matter, whereby it refills any 
change endeavoured to be made in its ftate. See the article 
Mechanics. 
INER/TITUDE, /. Slothfulnefs, fl-uggiflmefs. Scott. 
INERT'LY, adv. Sluggilhly ; dully : 
Ye pow’rs, 
Sufpend a while your force inertly ftrong. Dunciad. 
To INES'CATE, v. a. [from in, Lat. with, and efca, a 
bait.] To deceive, to catch as with a bait. Bailey. 
INESCA'TION, /. The aft of baiting, the aft of de¬ 
ceiving. A method ufed by fome pretenders to phyfic to 
transfer a difeafe from a human body to that of an animal. 
Scott. 
INESCUTCH'EON,/ A fmall efcutcheon borne within 
the ihieid. See Heraldry, vol. ix. p.434. 
INESER'RHA, a town of Africa, in Senaar: ten miles 
eall of Gieftim. 
IN ES'SE, adj. is applied to things which are aftually 
exilling. Authors make a difference between a thing in 
eje, and a thing in pojfe : a thing that is not, but may be, 
they fay, is in pojfe , or potentia ; but a thing apparent and 
vilible, they fay, is in ejfe, that is, has a real being eo in - 
fianti ; whereas the other is cafual, and at bell but a pof- 
fibility. 
INESTIMABLE, adj. [Fr. inejlimabilis, Lat.] Too 
valuable to be rated ; tranlcending all price.—There we 
fhall fee a fight worthy dying for, that bleffed Saviour, of 
whom the Scripture does fo excellently entertain us, and 
who does fo highly deferve of us upon the fcore of his 
infinite perfeftions, and his inejlimable benefits. Boyle. 
And (hall this prize, th r i ineJUmable prize. 
On that rapacious hand for ever blaze ! Pope. 
INEVERAM', a town of Bindooftan, in the circar 
of Rajamundry: thirty-two miles fouth-eall of Raja- 
mundry. 
INEV'IDENCED, adj. Not made evident. Janeway. 
INEV'IDENT, adj. [ inevident , Fr. in and evident.'] 
Not plain ; oblcure.—The habit of faith in divinfty 
is an argument of things unfeen, and a liable affent unto 
things inevident, upon authority of the divine revealer. 
Brown. — Faith is the evidence of things not feen ; by which 
words, I conceive we may underhand an undoubting af¬ 
fent to thofe things which are of themfelves inevident. Co- 
rybeare's Sermons. 
INEVITABILITY, f. [from inevitable.] Impoftibility 
to be avoided ; certainty.—By liberty, I do underftand 
neither a liberty from fin, milery, lervitude, nor violence, 
but from necelfity, or rather neceftitation ; that is, an 
univerfal immunity from all inevitability and determination 
to one. Bramhall againjl Hobbes. 
INEVITABLE, adj. [Fr. inevitabilis, Lat.] L T navoida- 
ble; not to be efcaped.—I had a pals with him ; he gi ves 
me the lluckin with fuch a mortal motion, that it is 
inevitable. Shahefpears . 
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Since my inevitable death you know, 
You lately unavailing pity lhow. Drydeif. 
INEV'ITABLENESS, f. Inevitability. Scott. 
INEV'ITABLY, adv. Without poffibility of efcape.—> 
How inevitably does an immoderate laughter end in a 
ligli! South. 
The day thou eat’ft thereof, my foie command 
.Tranfgrell, inevitably thou fhalt. die. • Milton. 
INEXCO'GITABLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, 
and excogito, to find out by thinking.] Incapable of being 
found out by thought. Scott. 
INEXCUSABLE, adj. [Fr. inexcufabilis, Lat.] Not to 
be excufed ; not to be palliated by apology.—As we are 
an iiland with ports and navigable feas, we Ihould be in~ 
excufable if we did not make thefe bleffings turn to ac¬ 
count. Addifon. 
INEXCU'SABLENESS, f. Enormity beyond forgive- 
nefs or palliation.—That inexcufablenefs is Hated upon the 
fuppolition that they knew'God, but did not glorify him- 
South. 
INEXCUSABLY, adv. To a degree of guilt or folly 
beyond excufe.—It will inexcufably condemn fome men, 
who, having received excellent endowments, yet have frui¬ 
trated the intention. Brown. 1 
INEXHA'LABLE, adj. That which cannot evaporate. 
—A new-laid egg will not fo eafily be boiled hard, be- 
canfe it contains a great ftock of humid parts, which mud 
be evaporated before the heat can bring the inexhalable 
parts into confidence. Brown. 
INEXHAUSTED, adj. Unemptied; not poffible to b&. 
emptied: 
So wert thou born into a tuneful drain. 
An early, rich, and inexhavfed, vein. Dryden. 
INEXHAUSTIBLE, adj. Not to be drawn all away j 
not to be fpent.—Refleft on the variety of combinations 
which may be made with number, whofe ftock is inexhaw- 
Jlible, and truly infinite. Locke. 
INEXHAUSTIBLENESS, J. The ftate or quality of 
being inexhaultible. Scott. 
INEXHAUSTIVE, adj. Not to be exhaufled r 
Thofe aromatic gales 
That ir.exhaufiive How continual round. Thomfon. 
INEXHAUSTLESS, adj. Inexhauftible.—The facred 
blaze of inexhaujilej's day. Boyfe. 
INEXISTENCE, f. Want of being; want of exillence. 
—He calls up the heroes of former ages from a Hate of 
inexijience to adorn and diverfify his poem. Broome. 
INEXISTENT, adj. Not having being; not to be 
found in nature.—To exprefs complexed fignifications, 
they took a liberty to compound and piece together crea¬ 
tures of allowable forms into mixtures inexijlent. Brown .—- 
Exilling in fomething elfe. This vfe is rare. —We doubt 
whether thefe heterogeneities be fo much as inexiftent in 
the concrete, whence they are obtained. Boyle. 
INEXIS'TING, adj. Inexiltent, no where exilling. 
Scott. 
INEX'ORABLE, adj, [Fr. inexorabilis, Lat.] Not to 
be intreated ; not to be moved by intreaty.—We can be 
deaf to the words of fo fweet a charmer, and inexorable to 
all his invitations. Rogers, 
Th’ inexorable gates were barr’d, 
And nought was feen, and nought was heard, 
But dreadful gleams, Ihrieks of woe. Pope. 
INEX'OR ABLENESS, f. The ftate or quality of being 
inexorable. 
INEXPEC'TABLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, 
and cxpeElo , to look for.] Unexpefted, not to be looked 
for. Scott. 
INEXPED'IBLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and 
expedio, to free from.] Incapable of being lhaken off; 
cumberfome. Bailey. 
INEXPE'DIENCE, 
