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Neither invitations nor threats avail with thofe who are 
invincibly impeded, to apply them to their benefit. Decay of 
Piety. 
INVTOLABLE, adj. [Fr. inviolabilis, Lat.] Not to be 
profaned ; not to be injured.—This birthright, when our 
author pleafes, mult and mull not be facred and inviolable. 
Locke. 
Ye lamps of heav’n, he faid, and lifted high 
His hands, now free; thou venerable Iky!. 
Inviolable pow’rs! ador’d with dread. 
Be all of y< 3 u adjur’d. Drydcn. 
Not to be broken.—The prophet David thinks, that the 
very meeting of men together, and their accompanying 
one another to the houfe of God, fliould make the bond 
of their love inl'oluble, and. tie them in a league of invio¬ 
lable amity. Hooker. 
See, fee, they join, embrace, and feem to kifs, 
As if they vow’d fome league inviolable. Shakefpeare. 
Infufceptible of hurt or wound : 
Th’ inviolable faints 
In cubic phalanx firm advanc’d intire. Milton. 
INVI'OLABLENESS, f. The Hate or quality of being 
Inviolable. 
INVI'OLABLY adv. Without breach ; without failure. 
•—The true profeffion of Chriltianity inviolably engages all 
its followers to do good to all men. Spratt. 
INVFOLATE, adj. [inviolatus, L at.] Unhurt; unin¬ 
jured; unprofaned; unpolluted; unbroken: 
In all the changes of his doubtful Hate, 
His truth, like Heav’n’s, -was kept inviolate. Dryden . 
INVI'OLATED, adj. Inviolate. Scott. 
IN'VIOUS, adj. [invius, Lat.] Impalfable; untrodden: 
If nothing can oppugn his love. 
And virtue invions ways can prove. 
What may not he confide to do,. 
That brings both love and virtue too? Hudibras. 
To INVIS'CATE, v. a. [in and vifens, Lat.] To lime; 
to intangle in glutinous matter.—The camelion’s food be¬ 
ing flies, it hath in the tongue a mucous and (limy extre¬ 
mity, whereby, upon a fudden emifiion, it invifeates and 
intangleth thofe infefts. Brown. 
INVISIBILITY, /. [from invifible. ] The date of being 
Invilible; imperceptiblenefs to fight.—They may be de- 
monftrated to be innumerable, fubftituting their fmallnefs 
for the reafon of their invifibilily. Ray. 
INVISIBLE, adj. [Fr. from invijibilis, Lat ] Not per- 
ceptlbl, by the fight; not to be feen.—He that believes a 
God, believes fuch a being as hath all perfections ; among 
which this is one, that he is a fpirit, and confequently 
that he is invifible, and cannot be feen. Tillotfon. 
He was invifible that hurt me fo ; 
And none invifible, but fpirits, can go. Sidney. 
INVIS'IBLENESS, f. In viability. Scott. 
INVIS'IBLY, adv. Imperceptibly to the fight: 
Age by degrees invijibly doth creep, 
Nor do we feem to die, but fall alleep. Denham. 
INVITA'TIGN, f. [Fr. invitatio, Lat ] The aft of in¬ 
viting, bidding, or calling to any thing with ceremony 
and civility : 
That other anfwer’d with a lowly look. 
And foon the gracious invitation took. Dryden. 
Allurement —She gives the leer of invitation. Shakefpeare. 
INVITATORY, adj. [from invite.'] Ufing invitation; 
containing invitation. 
To INVI'TE, v. a. [invito, Lat. inviter, Fr.] To bid ; 
to afk to any place, particularly to one’s own houfe, with 
intreaty and complaifance.—If thou be invited of a mighty 
man, withdraw thyfelf. Ecc/ef. —When much company is 
invited, then be as fparing as poflible of your coals. Swift. 
~To-allure; to perfuade; to induce by hope or plealure, 
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—The liberal contributions fuch teachers met with, 
ferved Itill to invite more labourers into that work. Decay 
of Piety. 
Shady groves that eafy deep invite. 
And after toillome days a loft repofe at night. Dryden. 
To INVI'TE, v. n. To a Ik or call to any thing pleafing: 
All things invite 
To peaceful counfels. Milton. 
INVI'TER, f. He who invites.—They forcibly cut 
out abortive votes, fuch as their inviters and encouragers 
mod fancied. King Charles. —Honour was the aim of the 
gueds, and interelt was the fcope of the inviter. Smalridge. 
Wines and cates the tables grace, 
But moflrthe kind inviter's cheerful face. Pope. 
INVTTING, / The aft of giving an invitation. Invi¬ 
tation.—He hath feat me an earned inviting. Shakefpeare. 
INVI'TINGLY, adv. In fuch a manner as invites or. 
allures —If lie can but drefs up a temptation to look in¬ 
vitingly, the bufinel’s is done. Decay of Piety. 
I'NULA, f. [contracted or corrupted from Hclenium, 
EAevic.ii ; fabled to have fprung up from the tears of Helen.] 
Elecampane, Fleabane, &c. in botany, a genus of the 
-clafs fyngenefia, order polygamia fuperfiua, natural order 
of compolitae difeoidete, (corymbilene, Juff.) The ge¬ 
neric characters are—Calyx: common imbricated; leaflets 
lax, fpreading ; the exterior ones larger, of equal length. 
Corolla : compound, radiated broad ; corollales herma¬ 
phrodite, equal; very numerous in 'the dilk ; females, 
ltrap-lhaped, numerous; crowded in the ray. Proper of 
the hermaphrodite, funnel-form ; border five-cleft, rather 
upright. Female drap-lhaped, linear; perfectly entire.. 
Stamina: in the hermaphrodite; filaments five,,filiform, 
fhort; antherre cylindric, compofed of five fmalier linear 
conjoined ones; each ending below in twoltraight briltles of. 
the length of the filaments. Pi (till um : in the hermaphro¬ 
dite; germ oblong; Ityle filiform, length of the ltamens;, 
ftigma bifid, rather upright; in the females, germ long ; 
ityle filiform, half bifid ; ftigmas ereCt. Pericarpium : 
none ; calyx unchanged. Seeds : in the hermaphrodites, 
folitary, linear, four-cornered ; pappus capillary ; length 
of the feeds; in the females, like the hermaphrodite. Re- 
ceptaculum: naked, fiat. This genus therefore differs 
not only from Alter, but from molt others, in having the 
antherae terminated below by ten briltles. But this cha¬ 
racter is not to be found in all the i’pecies.— Ejfential Cha¬ 
racter. Receptaculutn : naked ; down Ample ; anthers 
ending in two briltles at the bafe. 
Species. 1. Inula helenium, or common inula, or ele¬ 
campane: leaves Item-clalping, ovate, wrinked ; tomentofe 
underneath; feales of the calyxes ovate. Elecampane has 
a perennial, thick, fufiform, brown, branching, aromatic, 
root; according to fome it is biennial. It is one of the 
largelt of our herbaceous plants, being from three to five 
or fix feet high, with the Item ftriated and downy, 
branched towards the top. Lower leaves on footftalks, 
lanceolate, afoot long, and four inches broad in the mid¬ 
dle; upper embracing, ovate-lanceolate, wrinkled, ferrated 
or toothed, deep green and llightly hairy above, whitilh 
green and thickly downy beneath. Flowering heads very 
large, Angle, terminating the Item and branches. Outer 
feales of the calyx ovate-lanceolate, like the leaves; inner 
bluntly ovate, tomentofe. Florets all yellow; thofe of the 
ray narrow, linear, from an inch to an inch and half in 
length, with three (harp teeth at the end. Seeds colum¬ 
nar, four-cornered, oblcurely itriated, fmooth, cinnamcn- 
bay-coloured, with the rim of the umbilicus cartilaginous 
and white. Pappus, egret, or down, white, twice as long 
as the feed, appearing to be capillary; but, when viewed 
with a glafs, finely toothed on one fide, (hotter than the 
florets, feflile. Native of Japan, Denmark, Germany, 
Flanders, Swilferland, Aultria, France, Piedmont, Spain, 
and Britain ; with us in Blfex frequent, in Norfolk not 
uncommon, Mettingham in Suffolk, near M.utingley in 
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