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•f her fubflantial truth and purity, the knows that for her 
to be feen and looked into, is to be embraced and ad¬ 
mired, as there needs no greater argument for men to love 
the light than to fee it. South. 
With narrow fearch, and with infpeElion deep, 
Confider every creature. Milton. 
Superintendence: prefiding care. In the firft fenfe it 
fhould have into before the object, and in the fecond fenfe 
may admit over ; but authors confound them.—We-may 
fafely conceal our good deeds, when they run no hazard 
of being diverted to improper ends, for want of our own 
infpeElion. Atterbury. —We fhould apply ourfelves to ftudy 
the perfeftions of God, and to procure lively and vigor¬ 
ous impreffions of his perpetual prefence with us, and in¬ 
fpeElion over us. Atterbury. —The divine infpeElion into the 
affairs of the world, doth neceflarily follow from the na¬ 
ture and being of God; and he that denies this, doth im¬ 
plicitly deny his exiftence. Bentley. 
Trial by Inspection, or Examination, is when, for 
the greater expedition of a caufe, in fome point or iffue, 
being either the principal queftion, or arifing collaterally 
out of it, but being evidently the objefl of fenfe,- the 
judges of the court, upon the teftimony of their own fenfes, 
lhall decide the point in difpute. For, where the affirma¬ 
tive or negative of a queftion is matter of fuch obvious 
determination, it is not thought necelfary to fummon a 
jury to decide it; who are properly called in to inform 
the confcience of the court of dubious fafts; and there¬ 
fore when the faff, from its nature, muft be evident to 
the court, either from ocular demonftration or other irre¬ 
fragable proof, there the law departs from its ufual refort, 
the verdift of twelve men, and relies on the judgment of 
the court alone. As in cafe of a fuit to reverfe a fine for 
non-age of the cognizor, or to fet afide a ftatute or recog¬ 
nizance entered into by an infant; here, and in other 
cafes of the like fort, a writ lhall iffue to the fheriff, com¬ 
manding him that he conftrain the faid party to appear, 
that it may be afcertained by the view of his body by the 
king’s juftices, whether he be of full age or not: Ut per af- 
feEluni corporis fui conjlare poteritjufliciariis nojlris, fipradiElus 
on ft plena alatis necne. If, however, the court has, upon 
infpeftion, any doubt of the age of the party, (as may 
frequently be the cafe,)' it may proceed to take proofs of 
the party; and, particularly, may examine the infant him- 
felf upon an oath of voire dire ; that is, to make true an¬ 
swers to fuch qneftionsas the court fliall demand of him; 
or the court may examine his mother, his godfather, or 
•he like. 
INSPECTOR,/ [Latin.] A prying examiner : 
With their new light our bold infpeElors prefs. 
Like Cham, to {hew their father’s nakedneS. Denham. 
A fuperintendent.—Young men may travel under a wife 
infpcElor or tutor to different parts, that they may bring 
home ufeful knowledge. Watts. 
INSPE'RABLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and 
fpero, to hope.] Improper to be hoped for. Cole. 
To INSPER'SE, v. a. [from in, Lat. into, and fpar go, 
to fprinkle.] To fprinkle upon. Scott. 
INPER'SION, f. [ infperfio, Lat.] A fprinkling upon. 
Ainfworthi 
INSPEX'IMUS, / [Latin.] A kind of letters patent, 
fo called becaufe they begin -with this word. 
To INSPHE'RE, v. a. To place in an orb or fphere: 
Where thofe immortal fliapes 
Of bright aerial fpirits live infpher'd, _ 
In regions mild of calm and ferene air. Milton. 
INSPI'RABLE, adj. [from infpiref Which may be 
drawn in with the breath, which may beinfufed.—Tothefe 
infpirocble hurts, we may enumerate thofe they fuftain from 
their expiration of fuliginous fleams. Harvey. 
INSPIRA'D.Q, f. A perfon who pretends to infpira- 
tion ; an enthufiaft. Scott. 
INSPIRATION, f. [from infpire.] The aft of draw¬ 
ing in the breath.—In any inflammation of the diaphragm,. 
INS 
the fymptoms are, a violent fever, and a moll exquiffte- 
pain increafedupon infpiration , by which it is diftinguifhed 
from pleurify, in which the greateft pain is in expiration. 
Arbutknot.—' The aft of breathing into any thing. Infu- 
fion of ideas into the mind by a fuperior power.— Infpi- 
ration is when an overpowering impreffion of any propofi- 
tion is made upon the mind by God himfelf, that gives a. 
convincing and indubitable evidence of the truth and 
divinity of it: fo were the prophets and the apoftles in- 
fpircd . Watts. 
We to his high infpiration owe. 
That what was done before the flood we know. Denham.. 
To INSPI'RE, v. n. [infpiro , Lat. infpirer , Fr.] To- 
draw in the breath ; oppofed to expire. —If the infpiring .= 
and expiring organ of any animal be ftopt, it fuddenly 
yields to nature, and dies. H'alton. —To blow;.as a gentle- 
wind does: 
Her yellow lockes, crifped like golden wyre, 
About her fhoulders weren loofely fhed. 
And, when the winde emongft them did infpire, 
They waved like a penon wyde difpred. Spenfer.. 
To INSPI'RE, v. a. To breathe into s 
Ye nine, defcend and fing,. 
The breathing inftruments infpire. Pope. 
To infufe by breathing.—He knew nob his Maker, and 
he that infpired into him an active foul, and breathed in a. 
living fpirit. Wifd. xv. n.—To infufe into the mind; to 
imprels upon the fancy:, 
I have been troubled in my fleep this night; 
But dawning day new comfort hath infpifd. Shake] i 'peart. 
Then to the heart infpir'd 
Vernal delight. Milton. 
To animate by fupernatural infufion.—The letters are 
often read to the young religious, to infpire them witfew 
fentiments of virtue. Addifon. 
Erato, thy poet’s mind infpire. 
And fill hisYoul with thy celeftial fire; Dryden. 
To draw'in with the breath.—By means of fulphurous 
coal-linoakj the lungs are ftifled and oppreffed, whereby 
they are forced to infpire and expire the air with difficulty,, 
in companion of the facility of infpiring and expiring the 
air in the country. Harvey. 
His baleful breath infpiring as he glides ; 
Now like a chain around her neck he rides, Dryden. 
INSPPRER, f. He that infpires.—To the infinite God,, 
the omnipotent creator and preferver of the world, the. 
moll gracious redeemer, fanciifier, and injpirer, of mankind, 
be all honour. Derham. 
INSPIRING, f. The aft of breathing into ; of excit¬ 
ing certain thoughts. 
To INSPIR'IT, v. a. To animate; toafluate; to fill, 
with life, and vigour ; to enliven ; to invigorate ; to en¬ 
courage.—It has pleafed God to infpirit and afluateall his 
evangelical methods by a concurrence of fupernatural 
flrength, which makes it not only eligible, but poffible, 
eafy, and pleafant, to do whatever he commands us. Decay, 
of Piety. 
Let joy or eafe, let afHuence or-content, 
And the gay confcience of a life well [pent,.. 
Calm ev’ry thought, infpirit ev’ry grace. 
Glow in thy heart, and fmile upon thy face. Pope. 
INSPIRITING, /. The aft of animating, or railing 
the fpirits. 
To INSPIS'SATE, v.a. [in and Jpi/fus, Lat.] Tothicken-j 
to make thick.—Sugar doth injpijfate the fpirits of the 
wine, and maketh them not fo eafy to. refolve into vapour. 
Bacon.. 
INSPIS'SATING,_/ The aft of making thick. 
INSPISSA'TION, f The aft of making any liquid 
thick.—Recent urine will cryftalize by infpijfadon, and af¬ 
ford a fait neither acid nor alkaline. Arbuthnot. 
IN'SPRUCK, 
