Chapter In Forma Pauperis to Indian Drug of I by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Independents Certain Dissenters are so called, whose fundamental principle is that every congregation is an independent church, and has a right to choose its own minister and make its own laws.

Index (The). The "Roman Index" contains both the Index Librorum Prohibitorum and the Index Expurgatorius. The former contains a list of such books as are absolutely forbidden to be read by faithful Catholics. The latter contains such books as are forbidden till certain parts are omitted or amended. The lists are made out by a board of cardinals called the "Congregation of the Index." Of course, it is wholly impossible to keep pace with the present issue of books; but, besides the Protestant Bibles, and the works of such heretics as Arius and Calvin, we find in the lists the following well-known names: -
   Of English authors: Addison, Bacon, Gibbon, Goldsmith, Hallam, Locke, J. S. Mill, Milton, Robertson, Archbishop Whately, etc., and even some children's tales.
   Of French authors: Arnauld, Calvin, Descartes, Fénelon, l'Abbé Fleury, Malebranche, Voltaire, etc.
   Of Italian authors: Dante, Guicciardini, Sismondi, etc.
   Of German authors: Kant, Luther, etc.

"Under the auspices of Cardinal Caraffa (part iv.). the Inquisition was introduced into Italy (1542), and exerted the utmost vigilance and severity in crushing out the new faith, and the index of prohibited books was established." - Fisher: Universal History, part iii. period ii. chap. iv. p. 414.

India Ink or Chinese ink. So called because it was first brought from China. It is now made at home of lampblack and glue.

India Paper A printing-paper made in China and Japan from vegetable fibre, and used for taking off the finest proofs of engraved plates. Pronounce Indi' paper.

India Proof The proof of an engraving on India paper, before lettering.

Indian Arrowroot The root which the Indians apply to arrow-wounds to neutralise the venom of the arrow. They mash the meal, and apply it as a poultice. (Miller.)

Indian Drug (The). Tobacco.

"His breath compounded of strong English beere,
And th' Indian drug, would suffer none come neere." Taylor, the Water Poet (1630).