INDEFICIENT
INDEFI'CIENT, adjective Not deficient; not failing; perfect.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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INDEFINABLE
INDEFI'NABLE, adjective That cannot be defined.
INDEFINITE
INDEF'INITE, adjective [Latin indefinitus; in and definitus, definio, to define; de and finio, to end, finis, end.]1. Not limited or defined; not determinate; not precise or cer...
INDEFINITELY
INDEF'INITELY, adverb Without any settled limitation; as space indefinitely extended.1. Not precisely; not with certainty or precision; as, to use a word indefinitely
INDEFINITENESS
INDEF'INITENESS, noun The quality of being undefined, unlimited, or not precise and certain.
INDEFINITUDE
INDEFIN'ITUDE, noun Quantity not limited by our understanding, though yet finite. [Not used.]
INDELIBERATE
INDELIB'ERATE, adjective [in and deliberate.] Done or performed without deliberation or consideration; sudden; unpremeditated; as the indeliberate commission of sin.
INDELIBERATELY
INDELIB'ERATELY, adverb Without deliberation or premeditation.
INDELIBILITY
INDELIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of being indelible.
INDELIBLE
INDEL'IBLE, adjective [Latin indelebilis; in and delebilis, from deleo, to blot out.]1. Not to be blotted out; that cannot be effaced or canceled; as indelible letters or charac...
INDELIBLY
INDEL'IBLY, adverb In a manner not to be blotted out or effaced; too deeply imprinted to be effaced, or to vanish.
INDELICACY
INDEL'ICACY, noun [in and delicacy.] Want of delicacy; want of decency in language or behavior, regarding what nature and mannersrequire to be concealed.1. Want of a nice sense ...
INDELICATE
INDEL'ICATE, adjective Wanting delicacy; indecent; but it expresses less than indecent; as an indelicate word or expression; indelicate behavior; indelicate customs.1. Offensive...
INDELICATELY
INDEL'ICATELY, adverb Indecently; in a manner to offend against good manners or purity of mind.
INDEMNIFICATION
INDEMNIFICA'TION, noun [from indemnify.]1. The act of indemnifying, saving harmless, or securing against loss, damage or penalty.2. Security against loss.3. Reimbursement of los...
INDEMNIFIED
INDEM'NIFIED, participle passive Saved harmless; secured against damage.
INDEMNIFY
INDEM'NIFY, verb transitive [in and damnify; Latin damnificus; damnum, loss.]1. To save harmless; to secure against loss, damage or penalty.2. To make good; to reimburse to one ...
INDEMNIFYING
INDEM'NIFYING, participle present tense Saving harmless; securing against loss; reimbursing loss.
INDEMNITY
INDEM'NITY, noun [Latin in and damnum, loss.]1. Security given to save harmless; a writing or pledge by which a person is secured against future loss.2. Security against punishm...
INDEMONSTRABLE
INDEMON'STRABLE, adjective [in and demonstrable.]That cannot be demonstrated.
INDENIZATION
INDENIZA'TION, noun The act of naturalizing, or the patent by which a person is made free.
INDENIZE
IN'DENIZE, verb transitive To endenize, which see.
INDENIZEN
INDEN'IZEN, verb transitive To invest with the privileges of a free citizen.
INDENT
INDENT', verb transitive [Latin dens, a tooth.]1. To notch; to jag; to cut any margin into points or inequalities, like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.The margi...
INDENTATION
INDENTA'TIONINDENT'ED, participle passive Cut in the edge into points, like teeth.1. Bound out by indented writings; as an indented apprentice or servant.2. Bound out by writing...
INDENTED
INDENT'ED, pp. Cut in the edge into points, like teeth.1. Bound out by indented writings; as an indented apprentice or servant.2. Bound out by writings, or covenants in writing....
INDENTING
INDENT'ING, participle present tense Cutting into notches.1. Binding out by covenants in writing.INDENT'MENT, noun Indenture.