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<p><b>4.</b> <def>Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; <as>as, an <ex>independent</ex> air or manner</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.</def>

<blockquote>That obligation in general, under which we conceive ourselves bound to obey a law, <b>independent</b> of those resources which the law provides for its own enforcement. <i>R. P. Ward.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <fld>(U. S. Politics)</fld> <def>Not bound by party; exercising a free choice in voting with either or any party.</def>

<cs><col>Independent company</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>one not incorporated in any regiment.</cd> -- <col>Independent seconds watch</col>, <cd>a stop watch having a second hand driven by a separate set of wheels, springs, etc., for timing to a fraction of a second.</cd> -- <col>Independent variable</col>. <fld>(Math.)</fld> <cd>See <cref>Dependent variable</cref>, under <er>Dependent</er>.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Free; uncontrolled; separate; uncoerced; self-reliant; bold; unconstrained; unrestricted.</syn>

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<h1>Independent</h1> <Xpage=751>

<hw>In`de*pend"ent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.</def>

<note>&hand; In England the name is often applied (commonly in the <pluf>pl.</pluf>) to the Congregationalists.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Politics)</fld> <def>One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one who exercises liberty in voting.</def>

<h1>Independentism</h1> <Xpage=751>

<hw>In`de*pend"ent*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Independency; the church system of Independents.</def>

<i>Bp. Gauden.</i>

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<hw>In`de*pend"ent*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an independent manner; without control.</def>

<h1>Indeposable</h1> <Xpage=751>

<hw>In`de*pos"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Incapable of being deposed.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Princes <b>indeposable</b> by the pope. <i>Bp. Stillingfleet.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Indepravate</h1> <Xpage=751>

<hw>In*dep"ra*vate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>indepravatus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Undepraved.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Davies (Holy Roode).</i>

<h1>Indeprecable</h1> <Xpage=751>

<hw>In*dep"re*ca*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>indeprecabilis</ets>. See <er>In-</er> not, and <er>Deprecate</er>.]</ety> <def>Incapable or undeserving of being deprecated.</def>

<i>Cockeram.</i>

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