extended insurrection and revolt. Mutiny is an insurrection on a small scale, as a mutiny of a regiment, or of a ship's crew.

I say again,
In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition.
Shak.

Insurrections of base people are commonly more furious in their beginnings.
Bacon.

He was greatly strengthened, and the enemy as much enfeebled, by daily revolts.
Sir W. Raleigh.

Though of their names in heavenly records now
Be no memorial, blotted out and razed
By their rebellion from the books of life.
Milton.

Insurrectional
(In`sur*rec"tion*al) a. [Cf. F. insurrectionnel.] Pertaining to insurrection; consisting in insurrection.

Insurrectionary
(In`sur*rec"tion*a*ry) a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious.

Their murderous insurrectionary system.
Burke.

Insurrectionist
(In`sur*rec"tion*ist), n. One who favors, or takes part in, insurrection; an insurgent.

Insusceptibility
(In`sus*cep`ti*bil"i*ty) n. Want of susceptibility, or of capacity to feel or perceive.

Insusceptible
(In`sus*cep`ti*ble) a. [Pref. in- not + susceptible: cf. F. insusceptible.] Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery.In`sus*cep`ti*bly adv.

Insusceptive
(In`sus*cep"tive) a. Not susceptive or susceptible. [R.] Rambler.

Insusurration
(In*su`sur*ra"tion) n. [L. insusurratio, fr. insusurrare to whisper into.] The act of whispering into something. [Obs.] Johnson.

Inswathe
(In*swathe") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inswathed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Inswating.] To wrap up; to infold; to swathe.

Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist.
Tennyson.

Intact
(In*tact") a. [L. intactus; pref. in- not + tactus, p. p. of tangere to touch: cf. F. intact. See In- not, and Tact, Tangent.] Untouched, especially by anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; undefiled; left complete or entire. Buckle.

When all external differences have passed away, one element remains intact, unchanged, — the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul.
F. W. Robertson.

Intactible
(In*tac"ti*ble In*tac"ta*ble) , a. Not perceptible to the touch.

Intagliated
(In*tagl"ia*ted) a. [It. intagliato, p. p. of intagliare. See Intaglio.] Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone. T. Warton.

Intaglio
(In*tagl"io) n.; pl. E. Intaglius It. Intagli [It., fr. intagliare to engrave, carve; pref. in- in + tagliare to cut, carve. See Detail.] A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; — opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively.

Intail
(In*tail"), v. t. See Entail, v. t.


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