Webster's Dictionary 1828

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INTONATE

IN'TONATE, verb intransitive [Latin intono, intonatus; in and tono, to sound or thunder.]1. To sound; to sound the notes of the musical scale.2. To thunder.

2891

INTONATION

INTONA'TION, noun In music, the action of sounding the notes of the scale with the voice, or any other given order of musical tones.1. The manner of sounding or tuning the notes...

2892

INTONE

INTO'NE, verb intransitive [Latin intono, supra.] To utter a sound, or a deep protracted sound.Ass intones to ass.

2893

INTORSION

INTOR'SION, noun [Latin intorqueo, intorsum, to twist.]A winding, bending or twisting. In botany, the bending or twining of any part of a plant towards one side or the other, or...

2894

INTORT

INTORT', verb transitive [Latin intortus, from intorqueo, to twist.]To twist; to wreath; to wind; to wring.

2895

INTORTED

INTORT'ED, participle passive Twisted; made winding.

2896

INTORTING

INTORT'ING, participle present tense Winding; twisting.

2897

INTOXICATE

INTOX'ICATE, verb transitive [in and Latin toxicum, which, Pliny informs us, is from taxa, a species of tree.]1. To inebriate; to make drunk; as with spirituous liquor.As with n...

2898

INTOXICATED

INTOX'ICATED, participle passive Inebriated; made drunk; excited to frenzy.

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INTOXICATING

INTOX'ICATING, participle present tense Inebriating; elating to excess or frenzy.1. Having qualities that produce inebriation; as intoxicating liquors.

2900

INTOXICATION

INTOXICA'TION, noun Inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of making drunk.

2901

INTRACTABILITY

INTRACTABIL'ITY, noun The quality of being ungovernable; obstinacy; perverseness.1. Indocility.

2902

INTRACTABLE

INTRACT'ABLE, adjective [Latin intractabilis; in and tractabilis, tracto, to handle, manage, govern.]1. Not to be governed or managed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; ...

2903

INTRACTABLENESS

INTRACT'ABLENESSINTRACT'ABLY, adverb In a perverse, stubborn manner.

2904

INTRACTABLY

INTRACT'ABLY, adv. In a perverse, stubborn manner.

2905

INTRAFOLIACEOUS

INTRAFOLIA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin intra and folium, a leaf.]In botany, growing on the inside of a leaf; as intrafoliaceous stipules.

2906

INTRANCE

INTRANCE. [See Entrance.]

2907

INTRANQUILLITY

INTRANQUIL'LITY, noun [in and tranquillity.]Unquietness; inquietude; want of rest.

2908

INTRANSIENT

INTRAN'SIENT, adjective Not transient; not passing suddenly away.

2909

INTRANSITIVE

INTRANS'ITIVE, adjective [Latin intransitivus; in and transeo, to pass over.]In grammar, an intransitive verb is one which expresses an action or state that is limited to the ag...

2910

INTRANSITIVELY

INTRANS'ITIVELY, adverb Without an object following; in the manner of an intransitive verb.

2911

INTRANSMISSIBLE

INTRANSMIS'SIBLE, adjective That cannot be transmitted.

2912

INTRANSMUTABILITY

INTRANSMUTABIL'ITY, noun The quality of not being transmutable.

2913

INTRANSMUTABLE

INTRANSMU'TABLE, adjective [in and transmutable.]That cannot be transmuted or changed into another substance.

2914

INTRANT

IN'TRANT, adjective [Latin intrans.] Entering; penetrating.

2915

INTREASURE

INTREASURE, verb transitive intrezh'ur. [in and treasure.]To lay up as in a treasury. [Little used.]

2916

INTREATFUL

INTRE'ATFUL, adjective Full of entreaty.