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  • English Word Imputed Definition of Impute
  • English Word Imputer Definition One who imputes.
  • English Word Imputing Definition of Impute
  • English Word Imputrescible Definition Not putrescible.
  • English Word Imrigh Definition A peculiar strong soup or broth, made in Scotland.
  • English Word In Definition The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs signifying being, resting, or moving within limits, or within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its different applications, it approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among.
  • English Word In Definition With reference to space or place; as, he lives in Boston; he traveled in Italy; castles in the air.
  • English Word In Definition With reference to circumstances or conditions; as, he is in difficulties; she stood in a blaze of light.
  • English Word In Definition With reference to a whole which includes or comprises the part spoken of; as, the first in his family; the first regiment in the army.
  • English Word In Definition With reference to physical surrounding, personal states, etc., abstractly denoted; as, I am in doubt; the room is in darkness; to live in fear.
  • English Word In Definition With reference to character, reach, scope, or influence considered as establishing a limitation; as, to be in one's favor.
  • English Word In Definition With reference to movement or tendency toward a certain limit or environment; -- sometimes equivalent to into; as, to put seed in the ground; to fall in love; to end in death; to put our trust in God.
  • English Word In Definition With reference to a limit of time; as, in an hour; it happened in the last century; in all my life.
  • English Word In Definition Not out; within; inside. In, the preposition, becomes an adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the representative of an adverbial phrase, the context indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e., into the house).
  • English Word In Definition With privilege or possession; -- used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband.
  • English Word In Definition One who is in office; -- the opposite of out.
  • English Word In Definition A reentrant angle; a nook or corner.
  • English Word In Definition To inclose; to take in; to harvest.
  • English Word In and an Definition Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.
  • English Word In antis Definition Between antae; -- said of a portico in classical style, where columns are set between two antae, forming the angles of the building. See Anta.
  • English Word In commendam Definition See Commendam, and Partnership in Commendam, under Partnership.
  • English Word In esse Definition In being; actually existing; -- distinguished from in posse, or in potentia, which denote that a thing is not, but may be.
  • English Word In loco Definition In the place; in the proper or natural place.
  • English Word In posse Definition In possibility; possible, although not yet in existence or come to pass; -- contradistinguished from in esse.
  • English Word In situ Definition In its natural position or place; -- said of a rock or fossil, when found in the situation in which it was originally formed or deposited.
  • English Word In transitu Definition In transit; during passage; as, goods in transitu.
  • English Word In vacuo Definition In a vacuum; in empty space; as, experiments in vacuo.
  • English Word In- Definition A prefix from Eng. prep. in, also from Lat. prep. in, meaning in, into, on, among; as, inbred, inborn, inroad; incline, inject, intrude. In words from the Latin, in- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial; as, illusion, irruption, imblue, immigrate, impart. In- is sometimes used with an simple intensive force.
  • English Word In- Definition An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, incapable, inapt. In- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial.
  • English Word In-and-in Definition An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, either two doubles, or the four dice alike.