Part 5753

<hw>In*dict"or</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>One who indicts.</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Indies</h1> <Xpage=752>

<hw>In"dies</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <def>A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies.</def>

<blockquote>Our king has all the <b>Indies</b> in his arms. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Indifference</h1> <Xpage=752>

<hw>In*dif"fer*ence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>indifferentia</ets> similarity, want of difference: cf. F. <ets>indiff\'82rence</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Passableness; mediocrity.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias.</def>

<blockquote>He . . . is far from such <b>indifference</b> and equity as ought and must be in judges which he saith I assign. <i>Sir T. More.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness; <as>as, entire <ex>indifference</ex> to all that occurs</as>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Indifference</b> can not but be criminal, when it is conversant about objects which are so far from being of an indifferent nature, that they are highest importance. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Carelessness; negligence; unconcern; apathy; insensibility; coldness; lukewarmness.</syn>

<h1>Indifferency</h1> <Xpage=752>

<hw>In*dif"fer*en*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Absence of interest in, or influence from, anything; unconcernedness; equilibrium; indifferentism; indifference.</def>

<i>Gladstone.</i>

<blockquote>To give ourselves to a detestable <b>indifferency</b> or neutrality in this cause. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Moral liberty . . . does not, after all, consist in a power of <b>indifferency</b>, or in a power of choosing without regard to motives. <i>Hazlitt.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Indifferent</h1> <Xpage=752>

<hw>In*dif"fer*ent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>indiff\'82rent</ets>, L. <ets>indifferens</ets>. See <er>In-</er> not, and <er>Different</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Not mal<?/ing a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern, or attention; of no account; without significance or importance.</def>

<blockquote>Dangers are to me <b>indifferent</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Everything in the world is <b>indifferent</b> but sin. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>His slightest and most <b>indifferent</b> acts . . . were odious in the clergyman's sight. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle state or quality; passable; mediocre.</def>

<blockquote>The staterooms are in <b>indifferent</b> order. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Not inclined to one side, party, or choice more than to another; neutral; impartial.</def>