40 I N G 
he might be able to devote his income to charitable and 
ufeful purpofes. He built a large and noble hofpital; 
and he collected the molt extenfive and valuable library 
in Provence, which he gave for the ufe of the public. He 
died of an apoplectic stroke in 1757, when he was in his 
feventy-fifth year. He was known in the republic of let¬ 
ters by original works and tranflations; of which the 
principal were, 1. Genuinus Character Rever. admodum 
in Chrilto D. Armandi Joannis Buttillierrii Rancsei, 1718, 
4to. 2. An Italian tranllation of the 7 he'ologie Religieufe, 
or Treatife on the Duties of a monadic Life, 1731, 3 vols. 
folio. 3. A tranllation into the lame language of father 
Petit-Didier’s treatife On the Infallibility of the Roman 
Pontiff, 1732, folio. 4. An edition of the Works of 
Bartholomew of the Martyrs, with his life, 2 vols. folio. 
5. La Vie feparee, 1727, 2 vols. 410. See. 
IN'GUINAL, adj. [Fr. from inguen , Lat.] Belonging 
to the groin.—The plague feems to be a particular dileafe, 
charaCterifed with eruptions in buboes, by the inflamma¬ 
tion and fuppuration of the axillary, inguinal, and other 
glands. Arbuthnot. 
IN'GUL, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the Bug 
near Matvievka. 
IN'GULETZ, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the 
Dnieper twelve miles north-eaft of Cherfon. 
To INGUL'F, v.a. Tofwallow up in a valt profundity: 
Call out from God, he falls 
Into utter darknefs deep ingulph'd. Milton. 
To caft into a gulf.—If we adjoin to the lords, whether 
they prevail or not, we ingulf ourfelves into allured dan¬ 
ger. Hayward. 
INGUL'FING, f. The a£t of fwallowing up as in a 
gulf. 
INGUL'PHUS, a monaftic hiftorian, was the fon of a 
courtier of Edward the Confeflbr, and was born at Lon¬ 
don about 1030. He ftudied firft at Weftminller, and 
then at Oxford, where he dillinguilhed himlelf as an adept 
in the peripatetic philofophy. He went to Normandy in 
1051, and was appointed fecretary to duke William. By 
his permifiion he viflted the Holy Land and Conftantino- 
ple, in 1064 ; and, upon his return, entered into the order 
of BenediCtines, at the abbey of Fontenelle in Normandy, 
of which he became priot;. On William’s acceflion to the 
throne of England, Ingulphus was created abbot of the rich 
monaftery of Croyland. He was in great favour with the 
king and archbifhop Lanfranc, and was enabled to re¬ 
build his monaftery, for which he obtained many privi¬ 
leges, He died in nog. Ingulphus wrote a work on 
the life and miracles of St. Guthlac, and-alfo a hiftory of 
the monaftery of Croyland. This laft work is inter- 
fperfed with many particulars of the Englifh kings, and 
places the author among the hiftorians of his country. It 
was publilhed by fir Henry Saville among the Quinque 
Scriptores, in London, 1596, under the title of “Defcrip- 
tio compilata per Dom. Ingulphum, Abbatem Monafterii 
Croiland, Natione Anglicum, quondam Monachum Fon- 
taniflenfem.” The hiftory of Croyland, which comprifes 
from the year 664 to 1091, has been reprinted at Frank¬ 
fort, and at Oxford; the laft, in 1684, is the moll com¬ 
plete edition. 
INGUL'SK, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Ekaterinoflav, on the Ingul: twenty-eight miles fouth of 
Elizavet. 
To INGUR'GITATE, v.a. [ingurgito, Lat.] Tofwal¬ 
low down. Ditt. 
JNGURGITA'TION, f. The aft of fwallowing. 
IN'GURTY, a town of Hindooltan, in the province of 
Golconda: twenty-two miles fouth-eall of Warangole. 
INGUS'TABLE, adj. \in and gujlo , Lat.] Not percep¬ 
tible by the tafte.—As for their taile, if the cameleon’s 
nutriment be air, neither can the tongue be an inftrument 
thereof; for the body of the element is ingujlable, void of 
nil fapidity, and, without any aCtion of the tongue, is, by 
the rough artery, or wizzen, conducted into the lungs. 
Browns Vulgar Errors. 
I N H 
ING'VVEILLER, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Rhine, on the Motter : twenty-one miles 
north-north-weft of Strafburg. 
INHA'BILE, adj. [Fr. from inkabills, Lat.] Unlkilful;r 
unready; unfit; unqualified. 
INHABIL'ITY, f. Unlkilfulnefs ; unfitnefs. Not ufed. 
To INHAB'IT, v. a. \habito, Lat.] To dwell in ; to 
hold as a dweller.—Not all are partakers of that grace 
whereby Chrift inhabitetk whom he faveth. Hooker. 
To INHAB'IT, v.a. To dwell; to liver 
They fay wild beafts inhabit here: 
But grief and wrong fecure my fear. Waller. 
INHAB'ITABLE, adj. [from inhabit. ] Capable of af¬ 
fording habitation.—The fixed liars are all of them funs, 
with fy Items of inhabitable planets moving about them. 
Locke.—[Inhabitable, Fr.] Incapable of inhabitants; not 
habitable; uninhabitable. Not in ufe-. 
The frozen ridges of the Alps, 
Or any other ground inhabitable. Shakefpeare. 
INHAB'ITABLENESS, /; The Hate of being habitable. 
INHAB'ITANCE, f. [from inhabit .] Refidence of 
dwellers.—So the ruins yet reftinginthe wild moors, tel— 
tify a former inhabitance. Carcw's Survey of Cornwall. 
INHABITANT, f. Dweller; one that lives or relides 
in a place.—If the fervour of the fun were the foie caufe 
of blacknefs in any land of negroes, it were alfo reafon- 
able that inhabitants of the fame latitude, fubjeCted unto 
the fame vicinity of the fun, Ihould alfo partake of the 
fame hue. Brown. 
What happier natures Ihrink at with affright, 
The hard inhabitant contends is right. Pope. 
INHABITA'TION, f. Habitation; place of dwelling s 
Univerfal groan, 
As if the whole inhabitation perilh’d. Milton. 
The aCl of inhabiting or planting with dwellings; ftate 
of being inhabited.—By knowing this place, we lhall the 
better judge of the beginning of nations, and of the 
world’s inhabitation. Raleigh. —Quantity of inhabitants.— 
We lhall rather admire how the earth contained its inha¬ 
bitation than doubt it. Brown. , 
INHAB'ITER,y. One that inhabits; a dweller.—They 
ought to underftand, that there is not only feme inhabiter 
in this divine houfe, but alfo fome ruler. Derham. 
INHABITING, f. The act of dwelling in any place. 
INHALA'TION, f. [from to inhale.'] The aCl of re- 
fpiration. Cole. 
To INHA'LE, v. a. [ inhalo , Lat.] To draw in with air; 
to infpire.—Martin was walking forth to inhale the frefti 
breeze of the evening. Arbuthnot and Pope. 
But from the breezy deep the bleft inhale 
The fragrant murmurs of the weftern gale. Pope. 
INHA'LER, f. A machine for breathing in w’arm 
fleams into the lungs, recommended by Mr. Mudge in 
the cure of the catarrhous cough. The body of the in¬ 
ftrument holds about a pint; and the handle, which is 
fixed to the fide of it, is hollow. In the lower part of 
the veflel, where it is foldered to the handle, is a hole, by 
means of which, and three others on the upper part of 
the handle, the water, when it is poured into the inhaler, 
will rife to the fame level in both. To the middle of the 
cover a flexible tube about five or fix inches long is fixed, 
with a mouth-piece of wood or ivory. Underneath the 
cover there is a valve fixed, which opens and fhuts the 
communication between the upper and internal part 
of the inhaler and the external air. When the mouth is 
applied to the end of the tube in the act of infpiration, 
the air rufhes into the handle, and up through the body 
of warm water, and the lungs become, confequently, filled 
with hot vapours. In expiration, the mouth being ftill 
fixed to the tube, the breath, together with the iteam on 
