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trenchments are fometimes made of fafcines with earth 
thrown over them, of gabions, hogfheads, or bags filled 
with earth, to cover the men from the enemy’s fire. 
INTREP'ID, adj. [ intrepide, Fr. intrepidus, Lat.] Fear- 
lefsj daring; bold; brave: 
Calm and intrepid in the very throat 
Of fulph’rous war, on Tenier’s dreadful field. Thomfon. 
INTREPIDITY, f. \intrepidite, Fr.] Fearleflnefs ; 
courage; boldnefs.—I could not fufficiently wonder at 
the intrepidity of thefe diminutive mortals, who durft ven¬ 
ture to walk upon my body without trembling. Gulliver. 
INTREP'IDLY, adv. Fearlefsly; boldly; daringly.— 
He takes the globe for the fcene; he launches.forward in¬ 
trepidly, like one to whom no place is new'. Pope. 
INTREP'IDNESS, f. The ftate or quality of being in¬ 
trepid ; intrepidity. 
INTRES'SIN, a town of the duchy of Warfaw: forty 
miles fouth of Pofen. 
IN'TRICACY, f. [from intricate.'] State of being en¬ 
tangled; perplexity; involution; complication of fafts 
or notions—The part of Ulylfes in Homer’s Odyffey is 
much admired by Ariftotle, as perplexing that fable with 
very agreeable plots and intricacies, by the many adven¬ 
tures in his voyage, and the fubtilty of his behaviour. 
Addifon. > 
INTRICATE, adj. \_intricatus, Lat.] Entangled; per¬ 
plexed; involved; complicated; obfcure.—Much of that 
we are to fpeak may feem to a number perhaps tedious, 
perhaps obfcure, dark, and intricate. Hooker. —His ftyle 
was fit to convey the molt intricate bufinefs to the under- 
Itanding with the utmoft clearnefs. Addifon. 
To INTRICATE, v.To perplex; todarken. Not 
proper, nor in ufe. —Alterations of firnames, have fo intri- 
cated, or rather obfcured, the truths of our pedigrees, that 
it will be no little hard labour to deduce them. Camden. 
INTRICATELY, adv. With involution of one in 
another; with perplexity.—That variety of factions into 
which we are fo intricately engaged, gave occalion to this 
dilcourfe. Swift. 
IN'TRICATENESS,/. Perplexity; involution ; ob- 
fcurity.—He found fuch intricatenefs, that he could fee no 
way to lead him out of the maze. Sidney. 
INTRI'GUE,/. [French ] A plot; a private tranf- 
aftion in which many parties are engaged ; ufually an 
affair of love.—The hero of a comedy is reprefented vic¬ 
torious in all his intrigues. Swift. 
Now love is dwindled to intrigue, 
And marriage grown a money-league. Swift. 
Thefe are the grand intrigues of man, 
Thefe his huge thoughts, and thefe his vaft defires^ 
Flatman. 
Intricacy; complication. Little in ufe. —Though this vi¬ 
cinity of ourfelves to ourfelves cannot give us the full 
profpeiSI of all the intrigues of our nature, yet we have 
rji.uch more advantage to know ourfelves, than to know 
other things without us. Hale— The complication or 
perplexity of a fable or poem ; artful involution of feigned 
tranfaftion.—As caufcs are the beginning of the aftion, 
the oppofite defigns againft that of the hero are the mid¬ 
dle of it, and form that difficulty or intrigue which makes 
up the greateft part of the poem. Pope. 
To INTRI'GUE, v. n. To form plots; to carry on pri¬ 
vate defigns, commonly of love. 
INTRI'GUER, /. One w ho bufies himfelf in private 
tranfaftions; one who forms plots; one who purfues 
woman.—I defire that intriguers will not make a pimp of 
my lion, and convey their thoughts to one another. Addifon. 
INTRI'GUING, adj. Engaged in intrigues; fond of 
intrigues. 
INTRI'GUING, f. The aft of carrying on intrigues. 
INTRI'GUINGLY, adv. With intrigue; with lecret 
plotting. 
INTR-IN'SECAL, adj. [ intrinfecus , Lat. inirinfeque, Fr. 
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This word is now generally written inlrir.fical, contrary to 
etymology.] Internal ; folid ; natural; not accidental ; 
not merely apparent.—Thefe meafure the laws of God 
not by the intrinfecal goodnefs and equity of them, but 
by the reluctancy and oppofition which they find in their 
own hearts againft them. TiUolfon. —The near, anti intrin - 
jecal, and convincing, argument of the being of God, is 
from human nature ltfelf. Bcnilev —Intimate; clofely fa¬ 
miliar. Out of ufe. —He falls into intrinfcal iociety with 
fir John Graham, who difluaded him from marriage. Wal¬ 
ton. —Sir I'll Ik Greville was a man in appearance intrinfecal 
with him, or at leaf! admitted to his melancholy hours. 
Wo! ten. 
INTR IN'SECALLY, adv. Internally; naturally; real¬ 
ly.—A lye is a tiling abfolutely and intrinfecally evil. South. 
—Within; at the inlide.—If once bereaved of motion, 
matter cannot of itfelf acquire it again; nor till it be 
tliruft by forne other body from without, or intrinfecally 
moved by an immaterial felf-aflive fubftance that can 
pervade it. Bentley. 
INTRIN'SECALNESS,/ Reality; intrinfic worth. 
INTRIN'SECATE, or l ntpunsicate, adj. [this word 
feems to have been ignorantly ormed between intricate 
and intrinfecal.] Perplexed ; entangled. Not in ufe; • 
Such finding rogues as thefe, 
Like rats, oft bite the holy cords in twain, 
Too intrinfecate t’unloofe. King Lear. 
Cotne, mortal wretch, 
With thy fliarp teeth this knot intrinficate 
Of life at once untye. Antony and Cleopatra. 
INTRINSIC, adj. Inward; internal; real; true.— In- 
trinjic goodnefs confifts in accordance, and fin in contra¬ 
riety, to the fecret will of God, as well as to his revealed. 
Hammond. —Not depending on accident; fixed in the na¬ 
ture of the thing.—The difference between worth and 
merit, ftriftly taken; that is a man’s intrinfic , this his 
current, value. Grew . 
His fame, like gold, the more ’tis tried 
The more fliali its intrinfic worth proclaim. Prior. 
INTRO'BIO, a town of Italy, in the department of 
the Montagna : feven miles north of Lecco. 
To INTRODU'CE, v.a. [introduco, Lat. introduire, Fr.] 
To conduct or ufher into a place, or to a perfon.—Ma¬ 
thematicians of advanced {peculations may have other 
ways to introduce into their minds ideas of infinity. Locke. 
—To bring fomething into notice or practice.—An author 
who fliould introduce a fport of words upon the ftage, 
would meet with finall applaufe. Broome. —To produce; 
to give occafion to.—Whatfoever introduces habits in chil¬ 
dren, deferves the care and attention of their governors. 
Locke. —To bring into writing or difcourfe by proper pre¬ 
paratives.— If he will introduce himfelf by prefaces, we 
cannot help it. Layer's Trial. 
INTRODU'CER, /. One who conducts another to z 
place or perfon; any one who brings any thing into prac¬ 
tice or notice.—It is commonly charged upon the army, 
that the beaftly vice of drinking to excefs hath been 
lately, from’their example, reftored among us; but who¬ 
ever the introducers were, they have fucceeded to a miracle. 
Swift. 
INTRODUCING,/ The a ft of bringing in. 
INTRODUCTION,/! The aft of conducting or uffier- 
ing to any place or perion; the ftate of being uffiered or 
condufted; the aft of bringing any new thing into no¬ 
tice or praftice.—The archbiftiop of Canterbury had pur- 
fued the introduftion of the liturgy and the canons into 
Scotland with great vehemence. Clarendon. —The preface 
or part of a book containing previous matter. 
INTRODUC'TIVE, adj. Serving as the means to fome- 
thingelfe.—The truths of Chrilt crucified, is the Chriftian’s 
phiiofophy, and a good life is the Chriftian’s logic; that 
great inftrumental introduclive art, that rnuft guide the 
mind into the former. South. 
3 A INTRODUCTORY, 
