Inunderstanding
(In*un`der*stand"ing) a. Void of understanding. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Inurbane
(In`ur*bane") a. [L. inurbanus. See In- not, and Urbane.] Uncivil; unpolished; rude. M. Arnold.In`ur*bane"ly, adv.In`ur*bane"ness, n.

Inurbanity
(In`ur*ban"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. inurbanité.] Want of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness. Bp. Hall.

Inure
(In*ure") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inured ; p. pr. & vb. n. Inuring.] [From pref. in- in + ure use, work. See Ure use, practice, Opera, and cf. Manure.] To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually. "To inure our prompt obedience." Milton.

He . . . did inure them to speak little.
Sir T. North.

Inured and exercised in learning.
Robynson

The poor, inured to drudgery and distress.
Cowper.

Inure
(In*ure"), v. i. To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs. [Written also enure.]

Inurement
(In*ure"ment) n. Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.

Inurn
(In*urn") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inurned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Inurning.] To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb.

The sepulcher
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned.
Shak.

Inusitate
(In*u"si*tate) a. [L. inusitatus unusual. See Use.] Unusual. [R.] Bramhall.

Inusitation
(In*u"si*ta"tion) n. Want of use; disuse. [R.] Paley.

Inust
(In*ust") a. [L. inurere, inustum, to burn in; pref. in- in + urere to burn.] Burnt in. [Obs.]

Inustion
(In*us"tion) n. The act of burning or branding. [Obs.] T. Adams.

Inutile
(In*u"tile) a. [L. inutilis: cf. F. inutile. See In- not, Utile.] Useless; unprofitable. [Obs.] Bacon.

Inutility
(In`u*til"i*ty) n. [L. inutilitas: cf. F. inutilité.] Uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects.

Inutterable
(In*ut"ter*a*ble) a. Unutterable; inexpressible. Milton.

In vacuo
(||In` vac"u*o) [L.] (Physics) In a vacuum; in empty space; as, experiments in vacuo.

Invade
(In*vade") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Invaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Invading.] [L. invadere, invasum; pref. in- in + vadere to go, akin to E. wade: cf. OF. invader, F. envahir. See Wade.]

1. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; — used of forcible or rude ingress. [Obs.]

Which becomes a body, and doth then invade
The state of life, out of the grisly shade.
Spenser.

2. To enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack; as, the Romans invaded Great Britain.

Such an enemy
Is risen to invade us.
Milton.


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