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my mirth ceafes to be tnJlruBive , it (hall never ccafe to be 
Innocent. Addifon. 
INSTRUC'TlVENESS, f. [from infruEhve.] Aptnefs 
for inftruftion. 
J-NSTRUC'TOR,/ A teacher; aninftitutor; one who 
delivers precepts or imparts knowledge.—Though you have 
ten thoufand inftruSiors in Chrilt. x Cor. iv. 15. 
After the flood, arts to Chaldea fell, 
The father of the faithful there did dwell, 
Who both their parent and infrruBor was. Denham. 
1 INSTRUCTRESS, f. An Ihftrufting female, real or 
imaginary: 
To hear the fweet injlruBrefs tell, 
How life its nobleft ufe may find, 
How well for freedom be refign’d. Akenfede. 
INSTRUMENT, /■ [Fr. inferumentum, Lat.] A tool 
■ufed for any work or purpofe.—If he finite him with an 
infirument of iron, fo that he die, he is a murderer. Numb. 
xxxv. 16: 
What artificial frame, what infirument , 
Did one fuperior genius e’er invent, 
Which to the mufcles is preferr’d? Blackmore. 
A frame conftrufted fo as to yield harmonious founds.— 
He that ftriket’n an infirument without (kill, may caufenot- 
• withftanding a very plealant found, if the firing whereon 
he ftriketh chance to be capable of harmony. Hooker. 
In folitary groves he makes his moan, 
Nor, mix’d "in mirth, in youthful pleafures (hares, 
Butfighs when fongs and ivjlruments he hears. Dryden. 
A writing containing any contraft or order.—He called 
Edna his wife, and took paper, and did write an infirument 
of covenants, and fealed it. Tobit.— The agent. It is 
ufed of perfons as well as things, but of perfons very often 
in an ill fenfe : 
If, haply, you my father do fufpeft. 
An infirument of this your calling back. 
Lay not your blame on me. Shakefpeare. 
That by means whereof fomething is done.—All volun¬ 
tary felf-denials and aufterities which Chriftianity com¬ 
mends become necefiary, not Amply for themfelves, but 
as' infiruments towards a higher end. Decay of Piety. —One 
who afts only to ferve the purpofes of another.—In be¬ 
nefits as well as injuries, it is the principal that we are to 
confider, not the infirument ; that which a man does by 
another, is in truth his own aft. VEfirange. 
The bold are but the inflruments of the wife. 
They undertake the dangers they advife. Dryden. 
INSTRUMENTAL, adj. Conducive as means to fome 
end; organical.—All fecond and inflrumental caufes, with¬ 
out that operative faculty which God gave them, would 
become altogether Aleut, virtuelefs, and dead. Raleigh. — 
Afting to fome end ; contributing to fome purpofe; help¬ 
ful : ufed of perfons and things —The prefbyterian merit 
is of little weight, when they allege themfelves inflru- 
tnental towards the reftoration. Swift. —Confiding not of 
voices, but inftruments ; produced by inftruments, not vo¬ 
cal.—They which, under pretence of the law ceremonial 
abrogated, require the abrogation of inflrumental mufic, 
approving neverthelefs the ufe of vocal melody to remain, 
mu ft (how fome reafon wherefore the one (hould be 
thought a legal ceremony, and not the other. Hooker, 
Oft in bands. 
While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, 
With heav’nly touch of inflrumental founds 
r In full harmonious number join’d, their fongs 
'Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to heav’n. Milton. 
INSTRUMENTAL'ITY, f Subordinate agency; 
agency of any thing as means to an end.—Thofe natural 
and involuntary aftings are not done by deliberation and 
formal command, yet they are done by the virtue, energy. 
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and influx, of the foul, and the infirumentality of the fpirits. 
Hale. 
INSTRUMENTALLY, adv. In the nature of an in¬ 
firument ; as means to an end.—Men’s well-being here in 
this life is but injlrumentally good, as being the means for 
him to be well in the next life. Digby. 
INSTRUMENTALNESS, f uiefulnefs as means to an 
end.—The inftrumentalnefs of riches to works of charity, 
has rendered it very political, in every Chriitian common¬ 
wealth, by laws to fettle and fecure propriety. Hammond. 
INSUAVTTY,yi [from in, Lat. contrary to, and J'uavis, 
fweet.] Unpleafantnefs. Bailey. 
INSU'BID, adj. [from infubidus, Lat. Ample.] Rath ; in- 
confiderate. Cole. 
INSU'BRIUM, in ancient geography, a diftrift of the 
Tranfpadana; fituated between the Ticinus to the weft, 
the Addua to the eaft, the Padus to the fouth, and Oro- 
bii to the north. The people are called Infubres by Livy, 
Infubri by Ptolemy, and Ifombres by Strabo. Now the ter¬ 
ritory of Milan. 
INSUBSTANTIAL, adj. [from the Lat. in, contrary 
to, and fubflantia,. fubftance. ] Unfubftantial. 
To INSUC'CATE, v. a. [from fucco, Lat. to moiften.] 
To moiften. Bailey. 
INSUCCA'TION, f. in pharmacy, the aft of moiften- 
ing with fome juice. 
INSUF'FERABLE, adj. Intolerable 5 infupportable ; 
intenfe beyond endurance.—Though great light be infuf- 
ferable to our eyes, yet the higheft degree of darknefs does 
not at all difeafe them ; bec^ufe that caufing no dilorderly 
motion, leaves that curious organ unharmed. Locke. 
Eyes that confefs’d him born for kingly fway. 
So fierce they flalh’d infujferable day. Dryden. 
Deteftable; contemptible; difgufting beyond endurance. 
—A multitude of fcribblers, who daily pefter the world 
with their infufferable ftuff, (hould be difeouraged from 
writing any more. Dryden. 
INSUF'FERABLY, adv. To a degree beyond endur¬ 
ance.—There is no perfon remarkably ungrateful, who 
was not alfo infuff'erably proud. South. 
Thofe heav’nly fliapes 
Will dazzle now this earthly, with their blaze 
lnfujferably bright. Milton. 
INSUFFI'CIENCE, or Insufficiency, f. [from wand 
f efficient.] Inadequate to any end or purpole ; want of re- 
quifite value or power r ufed of things and perfons.—The 
infujficicncy of the light of nature is, by the light of lcrip- 
ture, fo fully fupplied, that further light than this hath 
added there doth not need unto that end. Hooker. —We 
will give you (leepy drinks, that your fenles, unintelligent 
of our infufficience, may, though they cannot praife us, as 
little accufe us. Shakefpeare. 
INSUFFICIENT, adj. \infufficiens, Lat.] Inadequate 
to any need, ufe, or purpofe; wanting abilities ; incapa¬ 
ble ; unfit.—We are weak dependant creatures, infuffecunt 
to our own happinefs, full qf wants which of ourfelves vve 
cannot relieve, expofed to a numerous train of evils which 
we know not how to divert. Rogers. 
INSUFFICIENTLY, adv. With want of proper abi¬ 
lity ; not (kilfully. 
INSUFFLATION, f. [ in zn&fujjlo, Lat.] The aft of 
breathing upon.—Inipoiition of hands is a cuftom of pa¬ 
rents in blefling their children, but taken up by the apof- 
tles inltead of that divine infujfiation which Chrift ufed, 
Hammond's Fundamentals. 
INSUIT, f. Strong folicitation : 
In fine, 
Her infuit coming with her modern grace 
Subdued me to her rate. Shakefpeare. 
INSULAR, or In'sulary, adj. \jnfulaire, Fr. infularis , 
Lat.] Belonging to an ifland.—Druina, being furrounded 
with the lea, is hardly to be invaded, having many, other 
infulary advantages. Howel. 
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