Irreverend
(Ir*rev"er*end) a. Irreverent. [Obs.]
Immodest speech, or irreverend gesture.
Strype. Irreverent
(Ir*rev"er*ent) a. [L. irreverens, -entis: cf. F. irrévérent. See In- not, and Reverent.] Not
reverent; showing a want of reverence; expressive of a want of veneration; as, an irreverent babbler; an
irreverent jest.
Irreverently
(Ir*rev"er*ent*ly), adv. In an irreverent manner.
Irreversibility
(Ir`re*vers`i*bil"i*ty) n. The state or quality of being irreversible; irreversibleness.
Irreversible
(Ir`re*vers"i*ble) a.
1. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an
irreversible engine.
2. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree.
This rejection of the Jews, as it is not universal, so neither is it final and irreversible.
Jortin. Syn. — Irrevocable; irrepealable; unchangeable.
Irreversibleness
(Ir`re*vers"i*ble*ness) n. The state or quality of being irreversible.
Irreversibly
(Ir`re*vers"i*bly), adv. In an irreversible manner.
Irrevocability
(Ir*rev`o*ca*bil"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. irrévocabilité.] The state or quality of being irrevocable; irrevocableness.
Irrevocable
(Ir*rev"o*ca*ble) a. [L. irrevocabilis: cf. F. irrévocable. See In- not, and Revoke, and cf.
Irrevocable.] Incapable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable
promise or decree; irrevocable fate.
Firm and irrevocable is my doom.
Shak. — Ir*rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. — Ir*rev"o*ca*bly, adv.
Irrevokable
(Ir`re*vok"a*ble) a. [Pref. ir- not + revoke.] Irrevocable. [R.]
Irrevoluble
(Ir*rev"o*lu*ble) a. That has no finite period of revolution; not revolving. [R.]
The dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity.
Milton. Irrhetorical
(Ir`rhe*tor"ic*al) a. Not rhetorical.
Irrigate
(Ir"ri*gate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Irrigated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Irrigating ] [L. irrigatus, p. p. of
irrigare to irrigate: ir- in + rigare to water; prob. akin to E. rain. See Rain.]
1. To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.
2. (Agric.) To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon, over, or through it, as in artificial channels.
Irrigation
(Ir`ri*ga"tion) n. [L. irrigatio: cf. F. irrigation.] The act or process of irrigating, or the state of
being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.
Irriguous
(Ir*rig"u*ous) a. [L. irriguus. See Irrigate.]
