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where the morning fun only is admitted ; and in the fpring, 
when the plants appear, they fliould be kept clean from 
weeds till they are fit to remove, when they fliould be 
tranfplanted on a fhady border, fix inches afuncfer, ob- 
ferving to fliade and water them till they have taken new 
root} and during the fummer feafon they fhould be kept 
clean from weeds, and in aijtumn they may be tranfplanted 
into the borders where they are to remain. 
No. 13, 14, 15, .and 27, are propagated by feeds, which 
fliould be fovvn on a bed of light earth early in the fpring; 
in May the plants will appear, which fhould be kept clean 
from weeds till they are fit to tranfplant, when they 
fliould be planted in an eaft border, at about fix inches 
diftance each way, watering and finding them till they 
have taken new root; after which they will require no 
other culture but to keep them clean from weeds till the 
autumn, when they fhould be planted where they are de¬ 
fined to remain. The fourteenth feldom continues above 
two or three years, and therefore young plants fliould be 
conftantly raifed from feeds to fucceed the old ones. 
The thirty-fecond fort will not live abroad in the open 
air in England during the winter feafon, fo rauft be re¬ 
moved into fhelter in autumn; but fhould have as much 
free air as poffible at all times when the weather is mild, 
otherwife it is apt to draw up weak. In cold weather the 
plants muft have very little water, for, their ftalks and 
leaves being fucculent, they are very apt to rot with too 
much wet; in fummer they fhould be placed abroad with 
other hardy exotic plants in a flickered fituation, where 
they will add to the variety, though they are plants of no 
great beauty, and feldom flower in England, ur.lefs the 
fummer is very warm. This is eafily propagated by cut¬ 
tings, any time in fummer, which, if planted in a fhady 
border, will take root in a.fhort time. No. 34-, being too 
tender to live in the open air in England, mull be con- 
flantly kept in the bark-ftove. It is propagated by feeds, 
which muft he procured from the country where it natu¬ 
rally grows, for it does not produce any here; thefe mult 
be fown upon a hot-bed, and, when the plants are fit to 
remove, they fliould be each put into a fmall pot filled 
with light earth, and plunged into a fiefli hot-bed ; treat¬ 
ing them in the fame manner as other tender plants from 
the fame country. See Percidium. 
INUiOr.DES. See Conyza. 
To INUM'BRATE, v. a. \inumbro , Lat.] To fliade; to 
cover with fhades. 
To INUN'CATE, v. a. [from uncus, Lat. a hook.] To 
hook; to-catch with a hook. Bo.iky. 
INUNCA'TION, /. The aft of hooking; the aft of 
catching with a hook. Scott. 
INUNC'TION, /. [irntngo, inunElus, Lat.] The aft of 
fmearing or anointing.—The wife Author of Nature 
hath placed on the rump two glandules, which the bird 
catches hold upon with her bill, and fqueezes out an oily 
liniment fit for the inunttion of the feathers, and caufing 
their filaments to cohere. Ray. 
INUNDA'TAS, f. The name of the forty-fifth order 
in Linnaeus’s Fragments of a Natural Method ; and the 
fifteenth of the Natural Orders in the Genera Plantarum. 
Containing fuch plants as grow naturally in the water. 
See Botany, vol. iii. p. 295. 
INUNDA'TION, /. [Fr. from inundatio , Lat.] The 
overflow of waters; flood; deluge.— Inundation, fays Cow¬ 
ley, implies lei’s than deluge. Johnfon. —The fame inundation 
was not paft forty foot in moft places ; fo that fome few 
wild inhabitants of the woods efcaped. Bacon. 
All fountains of the deep. 
Broke up, fhall have the ocean to ufnrp 
Beyond all bounds, ’till inundation rife 
Above the highelt hills. Milton. 
A confluence of any kind.—Many good towns, through 
that inundation of the Irifh, were utterly waited. Spenjtr, 
To IN'VOCATE, v. a. [invcco , Lat.] To invoke, to 
implore; to call upon; to pray to : 
Vol. XI. No. 745. 
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If Dagon be thy god, 
Go to his temple, invocate his aid 
With folemneli devotion. Milton. 
IN'VOCATING,/ The aft of calling upon. 
INVOCA'TION, f- [Fr. from invocatio, Lat.] The a< 5 t 
of calling upon fn prayer.—Is not the name of prayer 
ufual to iignify even all the fervice that ever we do unto 
God? And that for no other caufe, as I fuppofe, but to 
ftiow that there is in religion no acceptable duty, which 
devout invocation of the name of God doth not either ore- 
Atppofe or infer. Hooker .— The form of calling for the af- 
fiftance or prefence of any being.—The propoiition of 
Gratius is contained in aline, ana that.of invocation m half 
a line. IVafe. 
My invocation is 
Honed; and fair, and in his miftrefs’ name. Shdkfptare. ' 
Invocation, in theology, the aft of adoring.God, and 
efpecially of addrefling him in prayer for his afliflance 
and protection. The difference between the invocation 
of God and of the faints, as praftifed by the papifts, is 
thus explained in the Catechifm of the Council of Trent: 
“We beg of God to give us good things, and to deliver 
us from evil ; but we pray to the faints to intercede with 
God, and obtain thofe things which we Hand in need 
of. Hence we ufe different forms in praying to God and 
to the faints; to the former we fay, Hear us, have mercy on 
us ; to the latter we only lay, Pray for us." The council 
of Trent exprefsly teaches, that the faints who reign with 
Jefus Chrift oiler up their prayers to God for men ;• and 
condemn thofe who maintain the contrary doftrine. The 
proteftants rejeft and cenfure this praftice ?.s contrary to. 
feripture, deny the truth of the faft, and think it highly 
unreafonable to fuppofe that a limited finite being fhoufd 
be in a manner omniprefent, and at one and the lamp 
time hear and attend to the prayers that are offered to' 
him in England, China, and Peru ; and from thence in¬ 
fer, that, if the faints cannot hear their requefls, it is in- 
confiffent with common fenfe to addrefs any kind of prayer 1 
to them. 
Invocation, in po?try, an addrefs at the beginning 
of a poem, w herein the poet calls for the afliflance of fome 
divinity, particularly of his mufe, or the deity of poetry. 
IN'VOICE, /. [perhaps corrupted from the French cn- 
voycz, fend.] A particular account of merchandife,' with 
its value, cuftom, and charges, See. fent by a merchant to 
his faftor or correfpor.dent in another country. See fat. 
iz Car. II. c. 34. 
To INVO'KE, v. a. [invoco, Lat. invoquer, Fr.] To call 
upon ; to implore ; to pray to ; to invocate.—The power 
I will invoke dwells in her eyes. Sidney. 
The Ikilful bard, 
Striking the Thracian harp, invokes Apollo, 
To make his hero and himfelf immortal. Prior. 
INVO'KING,/. The aft of calling upon ; of imploring. 
To IN'VOLATE, v. n. [from in, Lat. and volo, to fly.] 
To fly upon ; to fly over. But little ufed. Cole. 
INVOL'UCEL, f. in botany, afmall or partial involucre. 
INVOL'UCRE, f in botany, a fpecies of calyx placed 
beneath and remote from the flower, as in umbelliferous 
plants. See the article Botany, vol. iii. 
To INVOL'VE, v. a. \involvo, Lat.] To enwrap; to' 
cover with any thing circumfluent.—No man could mils 
his way to heaven for want of light; and yet fo vain are 
they as to think they oblige the world by involving it in 
darknefs. Decay of Piety. 
Then in a cloud involv'd, he takes his flight, 
Where Greeks and Trojans mix’d in mortal fight. Dryd. 
To imply ; to comprife.—-We cannot demonftrate thefe. 
things fo as to fliow that the contrary neceffarily involves 
a contradiftion. Tillotfon. —To entwift ; to join.-—He 
knows his end with mine involv'd. Milton. —To take in ; 
to catch; to conjoin.—Sin we fliould hate altogether; but 
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