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anti keeping 'him in a fitting pofture. Thefe inftances of 
fatal infolation, however, are not very common. _ , 
Insolation, in pharmacy, a method of preparing 
certain fruits, drugs, See. by expofing them to the heat of 
the fun’s rays; either to dry, to maturate, or to fharpen, 
them; as is done in vinegar, figs, Sec, The word comes 
from the Latin verb inflare , which is ufed by Pliny and 
Columella, and dignifies to expofe to the fun. 
. IN'SOLENCE, or.lNSOLENC.r, f. {infolence, Fr. irifolen- 
tia, Lat.] Pride exerted in contemptuous and overbear¬ 
ing treatment of others ; petulant contempt.—They could 
not re drain the infolency of O’Neal, who, finding none 
now to withftand him, made himfelf lord of thofe people 
that remained. Sperifer. 
Such a nature 
Tickled with good fuccefs, difdains the fiiadow 
Width lie "treads on at noon;,but I do wonder 
His infolence can brook to be commanded 
Under Cominius. Shakefpeare. 
To INS'OLENCE, v. a. To infult; to treat with con¬ 
tempt. A very bad word. —The bilhops, who were fifft 
faulty, infolenced and aflaulted. King Charles, 
IN'SOLENT, adj. [Fr. infolens, Lat.] Contemptuous 
of others; haughty; overbearing.—We have not pillaged 
thofe rich provinces which we refeued : victory itfelf 
hath not made us infolent matters. Atterbury. 
IN'SOLENTLY, adv. [infolenter,'Lzt.~] With contempt 
of others.; haughtily; rudely.—Briant, naturally of an 
haughty temper, treated him very infolently, more like a 
criminal than a prifoner of war. Addifon. 
'Not faCtion, when it fliook thy regal feat. 
Not fenates, infolently loud, 
Thofe echoes of a thoughtlefs crowd, 
Could warp thy foul to their unjuft decree. Dry den. 
IN'SOLENTNESS, f The fame as infolence. 
INSO'LITE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and foleo, to 
foe accuftomed.] Unufual, unaccuftomed. Bailey. Not ufed. 
INSOL'VABLE, adj. [Fr. in and folve .] Not to be 
folved; not to be cleared ; inextricable; fuch as admits of 
no folution, or explication.—Spend a few thoughts on the 
puzzling enquiries concerning vacuums, the doffline of 
infinites, indiyifibles and incommenfurables, wherein there 
appear fonre dnfolvable difficulties. Watts .—That cannot 
be paid. 
INSOL'VABLENESS, f. The ftate of being infolvable. 
INSOLUBLE, adj. [Fr. infolubilis, Lat.] Not to be 
cleared; not to be refolved.—Admit this, and what fhall 
tjie Scripture be but a fnare and a torment to weak con¬ 
fidences, filling them with > infinite fcrupulofities, doubts 
infoluhle, and extreme defpair. Hooker .—Not to be diffolved 
or feparated.—Stony matter may grow in any part of a 
human body ; for when any thing infallible flicks in any 
part of the body, it gathers a cruft about it . ^Arbuthnot. 
INSOLUBLENESS, f. The ftate of being infoluhle. 
INSOLVENCY, f. Inability to pay debts.—An ad of 
infohency is a law by which imprifoned debtors are releafed 
without payment. 
INSOLVENT, adj. [ in and folvo,- Lat.] Unable to pay. 
.—By public declaration he proclaimed himfelf infolvent of 
thofe vaft firms he had taken upon credit. Howel. 
INSOLVENT, f. One unable to pay.—-An infolvent is 
one that cannot pay his debts. Watts. 
Insolvent Debtors. Many acts have been from time 
to time made for the relief of thefe. When the article 
Debt was printed, we omitted to notice the ftat. 34. Geo. 
III. c. 69, by which perfons actually in cuftody on the 
lath of February 1794, and whofe whole debts did not 
exceed the fumof 1000I. were releafed, on making affida¬ 
vit of the furrenderof all their eftate and effeCts, and fign- 
ing a fchedule thereof, delivered to the clerk of the 
peace at the feffions next following their refpeCtive notices, 
of their name, trade, and two laft places of abode (if fo 
jnany ;) which were to be given in the London Gazette, 
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and in the county newfpaper neareft to the gaol where 
confined, (if out of London or the bills of mortality,) 
three times; the firft notice to be at leaft twenty .'one days 
before the fa.id feffions. The'eftate and effects <5f dif- 
charged debtors, are vetted in the clerk of the peace, who 
is directed by the ftatute to affign the fame to' fuch cre¬ 
ditors as the courts fhall diredt; when the affignees are to 
ufe their belt endavours to receive and colleCt the eftate 
and effedtsof every fuch debtor, and with all convenient 
fpeed make fale thereof; and if the debtor be interefted 
in, or entitled to any real eftate, either eftates-tail, or in 
pofleffion, reyerfion, or expectancy, the fame to be fold 
by public.auction within two months after the aftignment, 
being firft adveriifed in the Gazette, fome daily paper, or 
country paper, if out of the bills of mortality, thirty days 
previous to fuch fale; and, at the end of three months 
after fuch affignment;, an .equal dividend’of the debtor’s 
effeCts was ordered to be made, and, if a furplus, the fame 
to be paid, to the debtor. Mortgages to take place of 
claims of an inferior nature. Prifoners not to be dis¬ 
charged of debts fubfequent to February 12, 1794. At¬ 
torneys, or fervants, imprifoned for embezzling money 
received for their employers, or any perfons who have 
obtained money, or bills of exchange', under falfe pre¬ 
tences, or removed goods to defraucT landlords, or fraudu¬ 
lently affigned their effeCts, are excluded from the benefit 
of the ftatute. Prifoners in cuftody for fees, on contempt 
for not obeying awards, not paying cofts, or on excom. 
cap. to be difcliarged ; but the ftatute does not extend to 
debtors to the crown or revenue; 20I. per cent, to be al¬ 
lowed as a reward for difeovering any part of a debtor’s 
eftate not comprifed in the fchedule ; and the difeharge 
of fraudulent debtors to be void. Perjury of prifoners to- 
be punifhable as in other cafes of perjury. There is at pre- 
fent (May 1811) a bill before the parliament for the far¬ 
ther relief of infolvent debtors. 
A poet of our own times, whofe reprefentations of ac¬ 
tual life glow with accuracy of delineation and truth of 
character, in his Letter on Prifons, thus deferibes infol¬ 
vent debtors: 
Here are the guilty race, who mean to live 
On credit that credulity will give; 
Who purchafe, confcious they can never pay * 
Who know their fate, and traffic to betray ; 
On whom no pity, fear, remorfe, prevail. 
Their aim a ftatute, their refource a jail j 
Thefe as the public fpoilers we regard. 
No dun fo liarfli, no creditors fo hard. 
A fecond kind are they, who truly ftrive 
To keep thei'r finking credit long alive ; 
Succefs, nay prudence, they may want, but yet 
They would be folvent, and deplore a debt: 
All means they ufe, to all expedients run. 
And are by flow fad fteps at laft undone. 
Juftly, perhaps, yon blame their want of (kill; 
But mourn their feelings, and abfolve their will, 
INSOLVENTNESS, f. The ftate of being infolvent. 
INSOM'NIOUS, adj. [from in, Lat. in, and fomnium, a 
dream.] Troubled with dreams ; reftlefs in fleep. 
IN'SOMUCH, conj. So that; to fuch a degree that._■ 
It hath ever been the ufe of the conqueror to defpife the 
language of the conquered, and to force him to learn his : 
fo did the Romans always ufe, injbmuck that there is no 
nation but is fprinkled with their language. Spenfer. This 
word is growing obfolete. 
To INSPECT, v. a. [infpicio, infpeclum , Lat.] To look 
into by way of examination. 
INSPECTING, f. The aCt of looking into, or of ex¬ 
amining. 
INSPECTION, f. [ mfpeSlion, Fr. infpeEiio, Lat.] Pry¬ 
ing examination ; narrow and clofe furvey.—-Our religion 
is a religion that dares to be underftood ; that offers itfelf 
to the fearcll of the inquifitive, to the infpeftion of the fie- 
vereft and the molt awakened reafon 3 for, being feeu re 
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