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Inactose – Indeterminate

Inactose

(in-ak'tōs), a true sugar found in the leaves of certain plants previous to flowering. Some of the tobacco family contain as much as 12 per cent. It is less sweet than cane sugar.

Incantation

a formula, either said or sung, supposed to add force to magical ceremonies. Incantations in classic times were employed: (1) To control the powers of Nature; (2) to compel the attendance and assistance of supernatural beings; (3) as love spells.

In the Authorized Version incantations among the Jews are called enchantments.

Those who practiced them are coupled with dreamers.

Incarnation

the usual theological term for the union of the divine nature with the human in the divine person of Christ. The word incarnatio first occurs in the Latin version of Irenæus, and in the Greek fathers we find its equivalent sarkosis and enanthrōpēsis.

Income Tax

a tax levied directly from income of every description, whether derived from land, capital, or indip at an angle with the horizon.

Increment

in mathematics, a quantity, generally variable, added to the independent variable in a variable expression. The function also undergoes a corresponding change, which is called an increment or decrement, according as the function is increasing or decreasing.

When the increment or decrement is infinitely small, it is called a differential.

Increment

UNEARNED, the increase in the rent of land due to the growth of industrial undertakings and of towns, and the general progress of society.

Incus

one of the small bones of the ear. It stands between the malleus and the stapes, and is connected with them by articular surfaces.

Indemnity

an act designed to relieve the government or any of its officers from penalties when they have been compelled by exceptional circumstances to omit the performance of some duty, or to violate or even to suspend some law.

Indented

in heraldry, a term signifying notched like the teeth of a saw, but smaller than dancette. Applied to one of the lines of partition; ordinaries are also thus borne.

Indenture

a deed entered into between two or more parties, and so called because duplicates of every deed between two or more parties were once written on one skin, which was cut in half, with a jagged or indented edge; so that they were seen to belong to one another.

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Independence

DECLARATION OF. See DECLARATION OF INDEPEND- ENCE.

Indeterminate

in mathematics, having an indefinite number of values or solutions. Indeterminate analysis is a branch of algebra in which there are always given a greater number of unknown quantities than there are independent equations, by which means the number of solutions is indefinite.