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Incorruption

The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption.

Incrassative

A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humors.

Increase

To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence.

increased

made greater in size or amount or degree. Opposite of decreased.

increasing

becoming greater or larger; as, increasing prices.

Incredible

Not credible; surpassing belief; too extraordinary and improbable to admit of belief; unlikely; marvelous; fabulous.

Incredulity

The state or quality of being incredulous; a withholding or refusal of belief; skepticism; unbelief; disbelief.

Incremate

To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate.

Incremation

Burning; esp., the act of burning a dead body; cremation.

Incremental

Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.

Incriminate

To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.

incriminating

charging or suggestive of guilt or blame; as, incriminating testimony; incriminating evidence.

Incriminatory

Of or pertaining to crimination; tending to incriminate; criminatory.

Incroyable

A French fop or dandy of the time of the Directory; hence, any fop.

Incruental

Unbloody; not attended with blood; as, an incruental sacrifice.

Incubate

To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

Incubative

Of or pertaining to incubation, or to the period of incubation.

Incubator

That which incubates, especially, an apparatus by means of which eggs are hatched by artificial heat.

Incube

To fix firmly, as in cube; to secure or place firmly.

Incubous

Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous.

Inculcate

To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind; as, Christ inculcates on his followers humility.

Inculcation

A teaching and impressing by frequent repetitions.

Inculpate

To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt. Contrasted with exculpate.

Inculpatory

Imputing blame; causing blame to be imputed to; criminatory; compromising; implicating. Opposite of exculpatory.

Incult

Untilled; uncultivated; crude; rude; uncivilized.

Inculture

Want or neglect of cultivation or culture.

Incumbent

A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.

Incumbently

In an incumbent manner; so as to be incumbent.

Incumbrancer

One who holds an incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.

Incunabulum

A work of art or of human industry, of an early epoch; especially, a book printed before a. d. 1500.

Incurably

In a manner that renders cure impracticable or impossible; irremediably.

Incuriosity

Lack of curiosity or interest; inattentiveness; indifference.

Incurious

Not curious or inquisitive; without care for or interest in; inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless.

Incurrence

The act of incurring, bringing on, or subjecting one's self to (something troublesome or burdensome); as, the incurrence of guilt, debt, responsibility, etc.

Incurrent

Characterized by a current which flows inward; as, the incurrent orifice of lamellibranch Mollusca.

Incursive

Making an incursion; invasive; aggressive; hostile.

Incurvate

To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.

Incurve

To bend; to curve; to make crooked.

Incurved

Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.

Incurvity

A state of being bent or curved; incurvation; a bending inwards.

Incuse

Cut or stamped in, or hollowed out by engraving.

Incuss Incuse

To form, or mold, by striking or stamping, as a coin or medal.

Indagator

A searcher; an explorer; an investigator.

Indart

To pierce, as with a dart.

Indazole

A bicyclic nitrogenous compound, C7H6N2, analogous to indole, having a benzene ring fused to a pyrazole ring; called also indazol and benzopyrazole. It can be produced from a diazo derivative of cinnamic acid.

Inde

Azure-colored; of a bright blue color.

Indebt

To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted.

Indebted

Brought into debt; being under obligation; held to payment or requital; beholden.

Indecent

Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language.

Indeciduous

Not deciduous or falling, as the leaves of trees in autumn; lasting; evergreen; persistent; permanent; perennial. Opposite of deciduous.

Indecimable

Not decimable, or liable to be decimated; not liable to the payment of tithes.

Indecipherable

Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved.

Indecision

Lack of decision; lack of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation.

Indeclinable

Not declinable; not varied by inflective terminations; as, nihil (nothing), in Latin, is an indeclinable noun. An indeclinable word.

Indecomposable

Not decomposable; incapable or difficult of decomposition; not resolvable into its constituents or elements.

Indecorous

Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct.

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