- 6. Endow with extraordinary insight, fill or endow with genius.
- 7. Elevate, exalt, stimulate to aspiration, fill with enthusiasm.
- 8. Animate, imbue, inform, quicken, enliven, fill.
Inspirit, v. a. Animate, invigorate, enliven, encourage, enhearten, hearten, embolden, cheer, comfort, stimulate, incite, quicken, rouse, arouse, fire, give new life to.
Inspissate, v. a. Thicken, make thick.
Inspissate, a. Thick, inspissated.
In sport. In jest, not in earnest, sportively, jestingly.
Instable, a. [Written preferably Unstable.]
- 1. Unsettled, insecure, liable to fall, not stable, not permanent, not firm, tottering.
- 2. Mutable, variable, changeable, liable to change.
- 3. Inconstant, fickle, changeable, volatile, mercurial.
Install, v. a. Inaugurate, induct, introduce into office.
Installation, n. Inauguration, investiture, instalment, ceremony of induction.
Instalment, n. [Written also Installment.]
- 1. See Installation.
- 2. Successive portion, partial payment.
Instance, n.
- 1. Solicitation, request, prompting, instigation, incitement, impulse.
- 2. Urgency, urgent solicitation, importunity, persistent pressure.
- 3. Example, exemplification, illustration, case.
Instance, v. a. Mention (as an instance), bring forward as an example, cite, specify.
Instant, a.
- 1. Pressing, urgent, importunate, earnest.