<i>Bain.</i>
<h1>Intuitive</h1> <Xpage=783>
<hw>In*tu"i*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>intuitif</ets>.]</ety>
<p><b>1.</b> <def>Seeing clearly; <as>as, an <ex>intuitive</ex> view; <ex>intuitive</ex> vision.</as></def>
<p><b>2.</b> <def>Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning.</def>
<blockquote>Whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or <b>intuitive</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>3.</b> <def>Received. reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; <as>as, <ex>intuitive</ex> judgment or knowledge</as>; -- opposed to <contr>deductive</contr>.</def>
<i>Locke.</i>
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<hw>In*tu"i*tive*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an intuitive manner.</def>
<h1>Intuitivism</h1> <Xpage=783>
<hw>In*tu"i*tiv*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The doctrine that the ideas of right and wrong are intuitive.</def>
<i>J. Grote.</i>
<h1>Intumesce</h1> <Xpage=783>
<hw>In`tu*mesce"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Intumesced</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Intumescing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>intumescere</ets>; pref. <ets>in-</ets> in + <ets>tumescere</ets> to swell up, incho. fr. <ets>tumere</ets> to swell. See <er>Tumid</er>.]</ety> <def>To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.</def>
<blockquote>In a higher heat, it <b>intumesces</b>, and melts into a yellowish black mass. <i>Kirwan.</i></blockquote>
<h1>Intumescence</h1> <Xpage=783>
<hw>In`tu*mes"cence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>intumescence</ets>.]</ety>
<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.</def>
<blockquote>The <b>intumescence</b> of nations. <i>Johnson.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>2.</b> <def>Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.</def>
<h1>Intumescent</h1> <Xpage=783>
<hw>In`tu*mes"cent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>intumescens</ets>, p. pr.]</ety> <def>Swelling up; expanding.</def>
<h1>Intumulated</h1> <Xpage=783>
<hw>In*tu"mu*la`ted</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>intumulatus</ets>. See <er>In-</er> not, and <er>Tumulate</er>.]</ety> <def>Unburied.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>
<h1>Intune</h1> <Xpage=783>
<hw>In*tune"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To intone. Cf. <er>Entune</er>.</def>
<h1>Inturbidate</h1> <Xpage=783>
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