<blockquote>Your <b>iniquities</b> have separated between you and your God. <i>Is. lix. 2.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>3.</b> <def>A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See <er>Vice</er>.</def>
<blockquote>Acts old <b>Iniquity</b>, and in the fit Of miming gets the opinion of a wit. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>
<h1>Iniquous</h1> <Xpage=764>
<hw>In*i"quous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>iniquus</ets>; pref. <ets>in-</ets> not + <ets>aequus</ets>. See <er>Equal</er>.]</ety> <def>Iniquitous.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>
<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>
<h1>Inirritable</h1> <Xpage=764>
<hw>In*ir"ri*ta*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>in-</ets> not + <ets>irritable</ets>: cf. F. <ets>inirritable</ets>.]</ety> <def>Not irritable; esp. <fld>(Physiol.)</fld>, incapable of being stimulated to action, as a muscle.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>In*ir`ri*ta*bil"i*ty</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>
<h1>Inirritative</h1> <Xpage=764>
<hw>In*ir"ri*ta*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Not accompanied with excitement; <as>as, an <ex>inirritative</ex> fever</as>.</def>
<i>E. Darwin.</i>
<h1>Inisle</h1> <Xpage=764>
<hw>In*isle"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Enisled</er>.]</ety> <def>To form into an island; to surround.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>
<i>Drayton.</i>
<h1>Initial</h1> <Xpage=764>
<hw>In*i"tial</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>initialis</ets>, from <ets>initium</ets> a going in, entrance, beginning, fr. <ets>inire</ets> to go into, to enter, begin; pref. <ets>in-</ets> in + <ets>ire</ets> to go: cf. F. <ets>initial</ets>. See <er>Issue</er>, and cf. <er>Commence</er>.]</ety>
<p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; <as>as, the <ex>initial</ex> symptoms of a disease</as>.</def>
<p><b>2.</b> <def>Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; <as>as, the <ex>initial</ex> letters of a name</as>.</def>
<h1>Initial</h1> <Xpage=764>
<hw>In*i"tial</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The first letter of a word or a name.</def>
<h1>Initial</h1> <Xpage=764>
<hw>In*i"tial</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Initialed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Initialing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>
<h1>Initially</h1> <Xpage=764>
<hw>In*i"tial*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an initial or incipient manner or degree; at the beginning.</def>
<i>Barrow.</i>
<h1>Initiate</h1> <Xpage=764>
<hw>In*i"ti*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Initiated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Initiating</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>initiatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>initiare</ets> to begin, fr. <ets>initium</ets> beginning. See <er>Initial</er>.]</ety>
<p><b>1.</b> <def>To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.</def>
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