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ftriftly virtuous herfelf, fo the always put the bell con- 
ftruftion upon the words and aftions of her neighbours, 
except where they were irreconcilable to the rules of honelty 
and decency. Arbuthnot. —Since the fenfe I oppofe is at¬ 
tended with fuch grofs irreconcilable abfurdities, I prefume 
I need not offer any thing farther in fupport of the one, 
or in difproof of the other. Rogers. —This effential power 
of gravitation or attraction is irreconcilable with the atheift’s 
own doClrine of a chaos. Bentley. 
IRRECONCI'LABLENESS,/. Impoffibility to be re¬ 
conciled.—What muft it be to live in this disagreement 
with every thing, this irreconcilablenefs and oppofition to 
the order and government of nature? Shaftejbury. 
IRRECONCI'LABLY, adv. In a manner not admit¬ 
ting reconciliation. 
IRREC'ONCILED, adj. Not atoned.—A fervant dies 
in many irrcconciled iniquities. Shakefpeare. 
IRRECOR'DABLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, 
and recordor, to remember.] Incapable of being remem¬ 
bered. Cole. 
IRRECOV'ER ABLE, adj. Not to be regained ; not to 
be reilored or repaired.—Time, in a natural fenfe, is irre¬ 
coverable: the moment juft fled by us, it is impoflible to 
recal. Rogers. —Not to be remedied.—It concerns every 
man, that would not trifle away his foul, and fool himfelf 
into irrecoverable mifery, with the greateft ferioufnefs to 
enquire. Til lot/on. 
IRRECOV'ERABLY, adv. Beyond recovery; paft re¬ 
pair.—The credit of the exchequer is irrecoverably loft by 
the lalt breach with the bankers. Temple. 
O dark, dark, dark, amid’ the blaze of noon; 
Irrccov'rably dark, total eclipfe. 
Without all hope of day. Milton. 
IRRECU'PERABLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, 
and recupero, to recover.] Incapable of being recovered. 
Chaucer. 
IRREDEEMABLE, adj. Incapable of being redeemed. 
IRREDIVI'VOUS, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and 
redtvivo, to revive.] Incapable of being revived. Cole. 
IRREDU'CIBLE, adj. Not to be brought or reduced. 
Thefe obfervations feem to argue the corpufcles of air 
to be irreducible in water. Boyle. 
IRREDUC'TIBLE, adj. Irreducible. Not ufed. 
IRREFRAGABIL'ITY,/. Strength of argument not 
to be refuted. 
IRREF'RAGABLE, adj. [ irrefragabilis , fchool Lat. 
irrefragable, Fr.] Not to be confuted ; fuperior to argu- 
mental oppofition.—Strong and irrefragable the evidences 
of Christianity muft be: they who relifted them would 
refill every thing. Atterbury. 
IRREF'R AG ABLENESS, /. Irrefragability. 
IRREF'RAGABLY, adv. With force above confuta¬ 
tion.—That they denied a future Itate is evident from 
St. Paul’s reafonings, which are of no force but only on 
that fuppofition, as Origen largely and irrefragably proves. 
Atterbury. 
IRREFUTABLE, adj. [irrefutabilis , Lat.] Not to be 
overthrown by argument. 
IRREFU'TABLENESS, f. The ftate of being irre¬ 
futable. 
IRREFUTABLY, adv. In a manner not to be refuted. 
IRREG'ULAR, adj. [Fr. from irregularis, Lat.] De¬ 
viating from rule, cuftom, or nature ; 
The am’rous youth 
Obtain’d of Venus his defire, 
Howe’er irregular his fire. Prior. 
Immethodical; not confined to any certain rule or order. 
—This motion feems excentrique and irregular, yet not 
well to be refilled or quieted. King Charles. —The numbers 
of pindariques are wild and irregular , and fometimes 
feem harlh and uncouth. Cowley. 
Regular 
Then moll, when moll irregular they feem. Miltor.. 
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Not being according to the laws of virtue. A foft word 
for vicious. 
IRREGULAR'ITY,yi Deviation from rule. NegleCt 
of method or order.—As thefe vaft heaps of mountains 
are thrown together with fo much irregularity and con- 
fufion, they form a great variety of hollow bottoms. Ad- 
difon. —Inordinate practice; vice.—Religion is fomewhat 
lefs in danger of corruption, while the finner acknow¬ 
ledges the obligations of his duty, and is alhamed of his 
irregularities. Rogers. 
IRREG'ULARLY, adv. Without obfervation of rule 
or method.—It may give fome light to thofe whofe con¬ 
cern for their little ones makes them fo irregularly bold as 
to confult their own reafon in the education of their 
children, rather than to rely upon old cultom. Locke. 
Your’s is a foul irregularly great, 
Which, wanting temper, yet abounds with heat. Dryden , 
IRREG'ULARNESS,/. [from irregular .] The Hate of 
being irregular. 
To IRREG'ULATE, v.a. [from in and regula, Lat.] 
To make irregular; to diforder.—Its fluctuations are but 
motions fubfervient, which winds, Ihelves, and every in- 
terjacency, irregulates. Brown. 
IRRF.G'ULOUS, adj. [in and regula, Lat.] Licentious? 
Thou, leagu’d with that irregulous devil Cloten, 
Haft here cut off my lord. Shakefpeare. 
IRRELATIVE, adj. Having no reference to any¬ 
thing; Angle; unconnected.—Separated by the voice of 
God, things in their fpecies came out in uncommunicated 
varieties and irrelative feminalities. Brown. 
IRREL'EVANT, adj. Not to the point. 
IRRELI'GION, f. Contempt of religion; impiety.— 
The weapons with which I combat irreligion are already 
confecrated. Dryden. —We behold every inftance of pro- 
phanenefs and irreligion, not only committed, but defended 
and gloried in. Rogers. 
IRRELI'GIOUS, adj. Contemning religion; impious. 
—Shame and reproach is generally the portion of the im¬ 
pious and irreligious. South. 
Whoever fees thefe irreligious men, 
With burthen of a ficknefs weak and faint. 
But hears them talking of religion then, 
And vowing of their fouls to ev’ry faint. Davies. 
Contrary to religion.—Wherein that fcripture ftandeth not 
the church of God in any Head, or ferveth nothing at all 
to direCl, but may be let pafs as needlefs to be confulted 
with, we judge it profane, impious, and irreligious, to think. 
Hooker .— Might not the queen’s domeftics be obliged to 
avoid fwearing, and irreligious profane difcourfe ? Swift. 
IRRELI'GIOUSLY, adv. With impiety; with irre¬ 
ligion.—If they keep any inmate thus irreligioufy difpofed 
in their houfes, they forfeit ten pounds per month. Black - 
Jlone. 
IRRELI'GIOUSNESS,/ The ftate of being irreligious. 
IRRE'MEABLE, adv. [ irremeabilis , Lat.] Admitting 
no return: 
The keeper charm’d, the chief without delay 
Pafs’d on, and took th’ irremeable way. Dryden. 
IRREME'DIABLE, adj. Admitting no cure; not to 
be remedied.—They content themfelves with that which 
was the irremediable error of former times, or the neceflity 
of the prefent hath call upon them. Hooker .— A fteady 
hand, in military affairs, is more requilite than in peace, 
becaule an error committed in war may prove irremediable. 
Bacon. 
IRREME'DIABLENESS,/. The ftate of being reme- 
dilefs. 
IRREME'DIABLY, adv. Without cure.—It happens 
to us irremediably and inevitably, that we may perceive 
thefe accidents are not the fruits of our labour, but gifts 
of God. Taylor. 
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