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Forms of Address: Hotel

Hors de combat, hor duh kom bah. Out of condition to fight. Hotel de ville, o tell de vil. A town hall.

Hotel dieu, o tell dyuh. The principal hospital in any French town. Ibidem or ib. In the same place.

Id est. That is.

Ignis fatuus. (Lit.) a foolish fire. A statement made which is calculated to mislead rather than enlighten. A Utopian scheme.

Imbroglio, eem bro lyo. An embarrassed or complicated state of affairs. Imprimis. In the first place. First of all.

Improvisatore, im pró vi sa to re. A man who makes poems off-hand. In articulo mortis. In the act of dying. At the time of death. Incidet in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim. Whilst we are making an effort to es-- cape one danger we fall into another. This a reference to the straits of Messina,. which were considered very dangerous by the ancients, owing to Scylla, a rocky mass, and Charybdis, a whirlpool.

In commendam. In trust. Holding office in trust for another. Recommended to a particular trust or duty.

Incognito. Unknown. In disguise.

In curia. In the court.

In esse.

In being. Actually existing.

In extenso. To the full extent. Exhaustively.

In extremis. In extreme difficulties. On its last legs. In flagrante delicto.

Taken in the act of committing the offence.

In forma pauperis.

In the form of a pauper, as a person unable to pay for an advocate. In foro conscientia.

Before the tribunal of conscience.

In initio. In the beginning. At the outset.

In loco parentis. In the place of a parent.

In nubibus. In the clouds. Of an inflated character. In the region of theories. In oculis civium. Before the public.

In perpetuum. In perpetuity.

In posse. In possibility of being. May be.