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<blockquote><b>Indifferent</b> in his choice to sleep or die. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Feeling no interest, anxiety, or care, respecting anything; unconcerned; inattentive; apathetic; heedless; <as>as, to be <ex>indifferent</ex> to the welfare of one's family</as>.</def>

<blockquote>It was a law of Solon, that any person who, in the civil commotions of the republic, remained neuter, or an <b>indifferent</b> spectator of the contending parties, should be condemned to perpetual banishment. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased; disinterested.</def>

<blockquote>In choice of committees for ripening business for the counsel, it is better <b>indifferent</b> persons than to make an indifferency by putting in those that are strong on both sides. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Indifferent tissue</col> <fld>(Anat.)</fld>, <cd>the primitive, embryonic, undifferentiated tissue, before conversion into connective, muscular, nervous, or other definite tissue.</cd></cs>

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<hw>In*dif"fer*ent</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "News <i>indifferent</i> good."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Indifferentism</h1> <Xpage=752>

<hw>In*dif"fer*ent*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>indiff\'82rentisme</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>State of indifference; want of interest or earnestness; especially, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>indifferentism</b> which equalizes all religions and gives equal rights to truth and error. <i>Cardinal Manning.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Metaph.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Identism</er>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(R. C. Ch.)</fld> <def>A heresy consisting in an unconcern for any particular creed, provided the morals be right and good.</def>

<i>Gregory XVI.</i>

<h1>Indifferentist</h1> <Xpage=752>

<hw>In*dif"fer*ent*ist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One governed by indifferentism.</def>

<h1>Indifferently</h1> <Xpage=752>

<hw>In*dif"fer*ent*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably.</def>

<blockquote>That they may truly and <b>indifferently</b> minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to the maintenance of thy true religion, and virtue. <i>Book of Com. Prayer [Eng. Ed. ]</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Set honor in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both <b>indifferently</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I hope it may <b>indifferently</b> entertain your lordship at an unbending hour. <i>Rowe.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Indifulvin</h1> <Xpage=752>

<hw>In`di*ful"vin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Indi</ets>can + L. <ets>fulvus</ets> reddish yellow.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A reddish resinous substance, obtained from indican.</def>

<h1>Indifuscin</h1> <Xpage=752>

<hw>In`di*fus"cin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Indi</ets>can + L. <ets>fuscus</ets> dusky.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A brown amorphous powder, obtained from indican.</def>

<h1>Indigeen</h1> <Xpage=752>