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INEXPE'DIENCE, or Inexpediency, / Want of fit- 
ncfs; propriety ; uiifuitablenefs to time or place ; incon¬ 
venience.—It concerned! fuperiors to look well to the 
expediency and inexpediency of what they enjoin in indif¬ 
ferent things. Sanderfon: 
INEXPEDIENT, adj. Inconvenient; unfit; impro¬ 
per; unfuitable to time or place.—It is not inexpedient they 
fliould be known to come from a perfon altogether a 
ftranger to chymical affairs. Boyle. 
INEXPE'RIENCE, f. [Fr. from in and experience .] 
Want of experimental knowledge; want of experience.-— 
Prejudice and felf-lufficiency naturally proceed from inex¬ 
perience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Addifon. 
_ INEXPERIENCED, adj. [inexpertus, Lat.} Not expe¬ 
rienced. 
INEXPER'T, adj. [inexpertus, Lat.] Unlkilful; un- 
fkilled : 
The race eleft advance 
Through the wild defert; not the readied way, 
Leit ent’ring on the Canaanite alarm’d. 
War terrify them inexpert. . Milton. 
INEX'PIABLE, adj. [Fr. inexpiabilis, Lat.] Not to be 
atoned. Not to be mollified by atonement: 
Love feeks to have love : 
My love how could’d thou hope, who took’d the way 
To raife in me inexpiable hate? Milton. 
INEX'PIABLENESS, f. The date or quality of being 
inexpiable. 
INEX'PIABLY, ado. To a degree beyond atonement: 
Excurfions are inexpiably bad. 
And ’tis much fafer to leave out than add. Rofcommon. 
INEXPLA'NABLE, adj. Incapable of being explained. 
Scott. 
INEX'PLEABLY, adv. [ in and expleo, Lat.] Infati- 
ably. A word not in ufe. —What were thefe harpies but 
flatterers, delators, and the inexpleably covetous ? Sandys’s 
'Travels. 
JNEX'PLEBLE, adj. Incapable of being filled. Cole. 
INEX'PLICABLE, adj. [Fr. in and explico, Lat.] In¬ 
capable of being explained ; not to be made intelligible ; 
not to be difentangled.—To me at lead this feems inexpli¬ 
cable, if light be nothing elfe than preffion or motion pro¬ 
pagated through ether. Newton. 
None eludes fagacious reafon more, 
Than this obfcure inexplicable pow’r. Blackmore. 
INEX'PLICABLENESS, f. The date or quality of be¬ 
ing inexplicable. 
INEX'PLXCABLY, adv. In a manner not to be ex¬ 
plained. 
INEXPRESSIBLE, adj. Not to be told ; not to be ut¬ 
tered ; unutterable.—The true God hath no certain name 
given to him ; for Father, and God, and Creator, are but 
titles ariling from his works ; and God is not a name, 
but a notion ingrafted in human nature of an inexprejible 
being. Stillingfleet. 
Thus when in orbs 
Of circuit inexprejible they dood,. 
Orb within orb. Milton ; 
INEXPRESSIBLY, adv. [from inexprejible.'] To a de¬ 
gree or in a manner not to be uttered ; unutterably.— 
God will proteft and reward all his faithful fervants in a 
manner and meafure inexprejibly abundant. Hammond. 
INEXPUG'NABLE, adj. [Fr. from inexpugnabilis, Lat.] 
Impregnable; not to be taken by affault; not to be fub- 
dued.—Why fliould there be implanted in each fex fuch 
a vehement and inexpugnable appetite of copulation ? Ray. 
INEXTIN'GUISHABLE, adj. [from in and extinguo, 
Lat.] Unquenchable.—Pillars, datues, and other memo¬ 
rials, are a fort of fliadow of an endlefs life, and (how an 
inextinguijhabk defile which all men Jtave’of it. Grew. 
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INEX'TRICABLE, adj. [Fr. from incxtricalilis, Lat. ] 
Not to be difentangled ; not to be cleared ; not to be fet 
free from obfcurity or perplexity.—He that fhould tye in¬ 
extricable knots, only to baffle the indudry of thofe that 
fliould attempt to unloofe them, would be thought not to 
have ferved his generation. Decay of Piety. 
Stopt by awful heights, and gulphs iinmenfe 
Of wifdom, and of vad omnipotence. 
She trembling dands, and does in wonder gaze, 
Lod in the wild inextricable maze. Blackmore „ 
INEX'TRIC ABLENESS, / The date of being inex- 
tricable; perplexednefs. 
INEX'TRIC ABLY, adu. To a degree of perplexity' 
not to be difentangled.—The. mechanical atheilt, though 
you grant him his laws of mechanifm, is neverthelefs in¬ 
extricably puzzled.and baffled with the fird formation of 
animals. Bentley. 
In vain they drive; th’ intangling fnares deny, 
Inextricably firm, the power to fly. Pope. 
INEXU'PERABLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, 
and exupero, to exceed.] Incapable of being furpaffed. Scott. 
To INEY'E, v. a. [from in and eye.] To inoculate; to- 
propagate trees by the infition of a bud into a foreign, 
dock : 
Let fage experience teach thee all the arts 
Of grafting and ineyeing. Philips. 
INEY'ING, / The method of propagating trees by 
inoculation. 
INFAB'RICATED, adj. Slightly put together. 
INFALISTA'CIO, / An ancient punifhment of fe'- 
lons, by throwing them among the rocks and lands, cuf- 
tomarily ufed in port-towns. It is the opinion of fome 
writers, that infalijlalus did imply fome capital punifh¬ 
ment, by expofing the malefaflor upon the lands till the 
next tide carried him away ; of which cudom, it is faid, 
there is an old tradition. However, the penalty feems to 
take its name from the Norman falefe, or falefia, which 
lignified not the lands, but the rocks and cliffs adjoining, 
or impending on the fea-lhore. Commifit feloniam ob quam 
fuit fufpenfus, ut legatus, vel alio modo morti damnatus, &c. vcl 
apud. Dover infalijlalus, apud Southampton fubmerjus, &c. 
INFALLIBIL'ITISHIP,/ The gift of being infallible; 
the title of one who pretends to infallibility. 
INFALLIBILITY,/ [ infallibiliti , Fr. from infallible.} 
Inerrability ; exemption from error.— Infallibility -is the 
highed perfeftion of the knowing faculty, and confe- 
quently the finned degree of affent. Tillotfon. —One of the 
great controverfies between the protedants and papids, is 
the infallibility which the latter attribute to the pope; 
though, in fact, they themfelves are not agreed on that 
head, fome placing this pretended infallibility in the pope 
and a general council. Ency. Brit. 
INFAL'LIBLE, adj. Privileged from error; incapa¬ 
ble of miftake ; not to be milled or deceived; certain. 
Ufed both of perfons and things.—Every cauie admitteth 
not fuch infallible evidence of proof, as leaveth no poffibi- 
lity of doubt or fcruple behind it. Hooker. 
Believe my words ; 
For they are certain and infallible. Shakcfpeare . 
INFAL'LIBLENESS, f. The date of being infallible. 
INFAL'LIBLY, adv. Without danger from deceit; 
with fecurity from error.—We cannot be as God, infalli¬ 
bly knowing good and evil. Smalridge. —Certainly._Our 
bleffed Lord has didinftly opened the fcene of futurity to 
us, and directed us to luch a conduft as will infallibly ren¬ 
der us happy in it. Rogers. 
To INFA'ME, v.a. [infamer, Fr. infamo, Lat.] Tore- 
prefent to disadvantage; to defame; to cenfure publicly; 
to make infamous; to brand. To defame is now ufed._ 
Livia is infamcd iox the poifoning of her hulband. Bacon. 
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