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Tnent or difagteement; this therefore is called intuitive 
knowledge. Locke. —Seeing, not barely believing.—Faith, 
beginning here with a weak apprehenfion of things not 
feen, ended with the intuitive vifion of God in the world 
to come. Hooker. —Having the power of difcovering truth 
immediately without ratiocination.—The rule of ghoftly 
cr immaterial natures, as fpirits and angels, is their intui¬ 
tive intelleftual judgment, concerning the amiable beauty 
and high goodnefs of that objefl, which, with unfpeak- 
able joy and delight, doth fet them on work. Hooker. 
The foul receives 
Difcurfive or intuitive. ■ Milton. 
INTUITIVELY, adv. Without deduction of reafon ; 
by immediate perception.—'That our love is found and 
fincere, that it cometh from a pure heart, and a good 
confcience, and a faith unfeigned, who can pronounce, 
faving only the fearcher of all men’s hearts, who alone 
intuitively doth know in this kind who are his ? Hooker .— 
God Almighty, who fees all things intuitively , does not 
want logical helps. Baker on Learning. 
INTUMES'CENCE,/. [Fr. from intumefco, Lat.] Swell; 
tumour; the act or Hate of fwelling.—According to the 
temper of the terreous parts at the bottom, as they are 
more hardly or eafily moved, they varioufly begin, conti¬ 
nue, or end, their intumefcencies. Brown. 
INTUMES'CENCY,/ Intumefcence. 
INTUMES'CENT, adj. Swelling or frothing when ex- 
pofed to the aftion of fire. 
INTURGES'CENCE, f. [ in and turgefco', Lat.] Swell¬ 
ing ; the aft or ftate of fwelling.—Not by attenuation of 
the upper part of the fea, but inturgefcencies caufed firft at 
the bottom, and carrying the upper part of it before 
them. Brown. 
INTURGES'CENCY, f. Inturgefcence. 
INTUR'KI, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilna : eighteen miles north of Wilna. 
•IN'TURN,/ With wreftlers, a turn inward, by which 
the adverfary is lifted up and generally thrown. 
INTU/SE, / [intufus, Lat.] Bruife: 
She did fearch the fwelling bruze, 
And, having fearch’d the intufe deep. 
She bound it with her fcarf. Spenfer. 
To INTWI'NE, v. a. To twift, or wreathe together.— 
This opinion, though falfe, yet intwned with a true, that 
the fouls of men do never perifli, abated the fear of death 
in them. Hooker. —To be inferted, by being wreathed or 
twilled: 
The veil and veil divine, 
Which wand’ring foliage and rich fiow’rs intwine. Dryden. 
INTWI'NING,/ The adt of wreathing together. 
IN'TYBUM and IN'TYBUS, f. in botany. See Ci- 
CHORIUM and Hieracium. 
To INVA'DE, v.a. [invado, Lat.] To attack a coun¬ 
try ; to make an hoftile entrance.—Should he invade any 
part of their country, he would foon fee that nation up 
in arms. Knolles. 
In vain did Nature’s wife command 
Divide the waters from the land, 
If daring (hips, and men prophane. 
Invade th’ inviolable main. Dryden. 
To attack; to aflail; to afiault.—There lhaH be fedition 
among men, and invading one another; they (hall not re¬ 
gard their kings, z Efdras. 
Thou think’ll Mis much, that this contentious ftorm 
Invades us to the ikin; fo ’tis to thee : 
But, where the greater malady is fix’d. 
The ielfer is fcarce felt. Skakefpeare. 
To violate by the firft adt of hoftility; to attack, not de¬ 
fend : 
Your foes are fuc’n, as they, not you, have made; 
And virtue may repel, though not invade, Dryden. 
[A latinifm.] To go into; 
IN V 
That fame his fea-marke made 
And nam’d it Albion : but later day 
Finding in it fit ports for filher’s trade, 
Gan more the fame frequent and farther to invade. Spenfer. 
INVA'DER,/ One who enters with hoftility into the 
poffeffions of another.—The breath of Scotland the Spa¬ 
niards could not endure; neither durft they, as invaders , 
land in Ireland. Bacon. 
Were he loft, the naked empire 
Would be a prey expos’d to all invaders. Denham. 
Secure, by William’s care, let Britain Hand ; 
Nor dread the bold invader's hand. Prior. 
Analfailant. Encroachcr; intruder.—The fubftance was 
formerly comprifed in that uncompounded llylc, but af¬ 
terwards prudently enlarged for the repelling and pre¬ 
venting heretical invaders. Hammond. 
To INVA'DIATE, v. a. In old records, to mortgage*-., 
INVADIA'TION,/. The aft of mortgaging; a mort¬ 
gage. 
INVA'DING, adj. Going or coming to invade; as, An 
invading army. 
INVA'DING, f. The aft of entering with hoftiie in¬ 
tention. 
INVALES'CENCE,/ [invalefce, Lat.] Strength ; health 5, 
force. 
INVAL'ID, adj. [invalidus, Lat.] Weak; of no weight 
or cogency: 
But this I urge 
Admitting motion in the heav’ns, to fliow 
Invalid, that which thee to doubt it mov’d. Milton.- 
INVALFD, / [French.] One difabled by ficknefs oy 
hurts: 
What beggar in the invalids. 
With lamenefs broke, with blindnefs fmitten, 
Wifli’d ever decently to die ? Prior. 
To INVALIDATE, v.a. To weaken; to deprive of 
force or efficacy.—Tell a man, pafiionately in love, that- 
he is jilted, bring a fcore of witneffes of the falfehood of 
his miftrefs, and it is ten to one but three kind words ofi 
her’s (hall invalidate all their teftimonies. Locke. 
INVALIDATING,/ The aft of weakening. 
INVALIDITY, f. \_in and validity-, invalidity, Fr.]- 
Weaknefs; want of cogency; want of bodily ftrength. 
This is no Englifh meaning.—He ordered, that none who 
could work fliould be idle; and that none who could noS 
work, by age, ficknefs, or invalidity, lhauld want. Temple. 
INVAL'IDNESS, f. The fame as Invalidity. 
INVAL'ITUDE,/ [invaletudo, Lat.] Want of health; 
ficknefs. Bailey. 
INVAL'UABLE, adj. [in and valuable ] Precious above 
eftimation 5 ineftimable.—The faith produced by terror 
would not be fo free an aft as it ought, to which are an¬ 
nexed all the glorious and invaluable privileges of be¬ 
lieving. Atterbury. 
INVA'RIABLE, adj. [Fr. in and varius, Lat.] Un¬ 
changeable; conftant.—Being not able to defign times by. 
days, months, or years, they thought belt to determine 
thefe alterations by fome known and invariable figns, and 
fitch they conceive the riling and letting of the fixed 
ftars. Brown. 
INVA'RIABLENESS,/ Immutability; conftancy. 
INVA'RIABLY, adv. Unchangeably ; conftantly.—. 
He, who fleers his courfe invariably by this rule, takes the- 
lurch way to make airmen praile him. Atterbury. 
INVA'SION, /. [Fr. invafio, Lat.] Hoftiie entrance- 
upon the rights or polfelfions ot another; hoftiie encroach¬ 
ment.—Reafon finds a lecret grief and remorfe from every 
invafion that fin makes upon innocence, and that mult 
render the firft entrance and admiffion of fin uneafy. South * 
The nations of th’ Aufonian fnore 
Shall hear the dreadful rumour from afar, i 
Of arm’d invafion, and embrace the war. Dryden.. 
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