Webster's Dictionary 1828

1945

INGATE

IN'GATE, noun [in and gate.] Entrance; passage in.

1946

INGATHERING

INGATH'ERING, noun [in and gathering.] The act or business of collecting and securing the fruits of the earth; harvest; a the feast of ingathering Exodus 23:16.

1947

INGELABLE

INGEL'ABLE, adjective [in and gelable.] That cannot be congealed.

1948

INGEMINATE

INGEM'INATE, adjective [Latin ingeminatus.] Redoubled.INGEM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin ingemino; in and gemino.]To double or repeat.

1949

INGEMINATION

INGEMINA'TION, noun Repetition; reduplication.

1950

INGENDER

INGENDER. [See Engender.]

1951

INGENERABILITY

INGENERABIL'ITY, noun [infra.] Incapacity of being engendered.

1952

INGENERABLE

INGEN'ERABLE, adjective [in and generate.]That cannot be engendered or produced.

1953

INGENERATE

INGEN'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin ingenero; in and genero, to generate.]To generate or produce within.INGEN'ERATE, adjective Generated within; inborn; innate; inbred; as ingen...

1954

INGENERATED

INGEN'ERATED, participle passive Produced within.Noble habits ingenerated in the soul.

1955

INGENERATING

INGEN'ERATING, participle present tense Generating or producing within.

1956

INGENIOUS

INGE'NIOUS, adjective [Latin ingeniosus, from ingenium; in and genius, geno, gigno, to beget.1. Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; hence, skillful or prompt to in...

1957

INGENIOUSLY

INGE'NIOUSLY, adverb With ingenuity; with readiness in contrivance; with skill.

1958

INGENIOUSNESS

INGE'NIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being ingenious or prompt in invention; ingenuity; used of persons.1. Curiousness of design or mechanism; used of things.

1959

INGENITE

INGEN'ITE, adjective [Latin ingenitus; in and genitus, born.]Innate; inborn; inbred; native; ingenerate.

1960

INGENUITY

INGENU'ITY, noun The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in combining ideas, or in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill; used of persons. How m...

1961

INGENUOUS

INGEN'UOUS, adjective [Latin ingenuus.] Open; frank; fair; candid; free from reserve, disguise, equivocation or dissimulation; used of persons or things. We speak of an ingenuou...

1962

INGENUOUSLY

INGEN'UOUSLY, adverb Openly; fairly; candidly; without reserve or dissimulation.

1963

INGENUOUSNESS

INGEN'UOUSNESS, noun Openness of heart; frankness; fairness; freedom from reserve or dissimulation; as, to confess our faults with ingenuousness1. Fairness; candidness; as the i...

1964

INGENY

IN'GENY, noun Wit; ingenuity.

1965

INGEST

INGEST', verb transitive [Latin ingestus, from ingero; in and gero, to bear.]To throw into the stomach. [Little used.]

1966

INGESTION

INGES'TION, noun The act or throwing into the stomach; as the ingestion of milk or other food.

1967

INGLE

IN'GLE, noun [Latin igniculus, ignis.] Flame; blaze. [Not in use.]1. In Scottish, a fire, or fireplace.

1968

INGLORIOUS

INGLO'RIOUS, adjective [Latin inglorius; in and gloria.]1. Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame or celebrity; as an inglorious life of ease.2. Sh...

1969

INGLORIOUSLY

INGLO'RIOUSLY, adverb With want of glory; dishonorably; with shame.

1970

INGOT

IN'GOT, noun A mass or wedge of gold or silver cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought metal.

1971

INGRAFT

INGR'AFT, verb transitive [in and graff. The original word is ingraff or graff, but it is corrupted beyond recovery.]1. To insert a cion of one tree or plant into another for pr...