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Show IN TINI ¢ UNDICATE. . a. (indics, Latin. different perfons, than to make an indiferency b to point out To point out a remedy 2. {In phyfick. See InpicATION Invrca'rion, n. /. [indication, French ix dutting in thofe that are {trong on both fides Bacor's Effays By an equal indifferency for all truth, I mean not loving it as fuch, before we know it to beirue dicatio, from indico, Latin. A perfed indifferenc 1. Mark ; token; fign; note; fymptom The frequent ftops they make in the mott conve nient places, are a plain izdication of. their weariAddifon nefs We think that our fucceffes are a plain indicaAtgerbury 1107 of the divine favour towards us 2. [In phyfic.] Indication s of four kinds vital : prefervative, curative, and palliative, as it direGs what is to be done t continue life, cutting off the caufe of a approaching diftemper, curing it whilft i is attually prefent, or leflening its effelts or taking off fome of its fymptoms befor RQuincy it can be wholly removed The depravation of the inftruments of mafticatio is a natural indication of aliquid diet. Arbuthnot intelligence given 3. Difcovery made If a perfo tha ha a fair eftat in reverfion thould be affured by fome f(kilful phyfician, that h swould inevitably fall into a difeafe that would totall deprive him of his underitanding and memory; if, fay, upon a certain belief of this indication, the ma fhould appear overjoyed at the news, would not al that faw him conclude that the diftemper had feize Bentley him 4. Explanation; difplay Thefe be the things that gover nature princi pally, and without which you cannot make any tru analyfis, and indication of the proceedings of nature Bacon's Natural Hifiory Inxpr'carTive [indicativus, Lat. adj 1. Showing; informing; pointing out 2. [In grammar. A certain modificatio of a verb exprefling affirmation or indi cation Th deny verb is formed in a certain manner to affirm o interrogate formation whic fro th principal ufe of it, is called the indicative mood Clarke's Latin Grammar Inpi'caTivELY adv [fro indicative. In fuch a manner as fhows or betokens Thefe images, formed in the brain, are indicatively of the fame {pecies with thofe of fenfe. Grew FoInvicr See InpITE an its deriva tives ~ Inpi'crioN.n. f. [indiion, Fr. indico, Lat. 1. Declaration; proclamation After a legation ad res repetendas, and a refufal and a denunciation an /zdiction of a war is left at large the wa Bacon in the mind kin wer kept Afterwards i memory of the great viGtory obtained b Conftantine over Mezentius 3 Cal. O¢t 312, by which an entire freedom was give to Chriftianity, the council of Nice, fo the honour of Conftantine, ordained tha the accounts of years fhould be nolonge kept by the Olympiads, which till tha time had been done; but that, inftea thereof, the izdicZion thould be made uf of, by which to reckon and date thei years, which hath its epocha 4. D. 313 Jan, 1 Inp1'FrERENCE. \ 2 fi [indifference, Fr Ixpr'srerENcY. indifferentia, Latin, 1. Neutrality; fufpenfion ; equipoife o freedom from motives on either fide determiue 4 No judge indiff*rent Thofe who would borrow light from expofitors confult either only thofe who have the goodluck to b thought found and orthedox, avoiding thofe of different fentiments; or elfe with indifferency look int notes of all commentatots Lacte the book with indifferency and judgment and thou can'ft not but greatly commend it Whitgifie 3. Negligence ; want of affeftion; unconcernednefs Indifference cannot but be eriminal ; when it i converfant about objefts which are fo far from bein of an indifferent nature, that they are of the highef importance Addifon A place which we muft pafs through, not only wit the indifference of frangers, but with the vigilanc of thofe who travel through the country of an enemy Rogers Indiff'rence, clad in wifdom's guife All fortitude of mind fupplies ¥or how can ftony bowels melt In thofe who never pity felt Swift He will let you know he has got a clap with a much izdijferency as he would a piece of public news Saift The people of England fhould be frighted w{ the French king and the pretender once a year : th want of obferving this neceffary precept, has produced great indijference in the vulgar Arbuthnot 4. State in which no moral or phyfical reafon preponderates; ftate in which there i no difference The choice is left to ou principal bond of fome highe difference that fuch things hav indiff*rence is removed, if w liberty difcretion, except duty remove the 7z in themfelves : thei take away our ow Hooker INDI'FFERENT. adj. [indiffzrent, Fr. indifferens, liat. 1. Neutral; not determined on either fide Doth his majeft Incline to it or no He feems indifferent Shakefpeare Being indifferent, we {hould receive and embrac opinions according as evidence gives the atteftatio of truth Locke Let guilt or fea Difturb man's reft Cato knows neither of them Indjfferent in his choice to fleep or die Addifon th civi commotion o th republick remaine neuter, or an /ndijferent fpeltator of the contendin partics, fhould be condemned to perpetual banifh ment Addifon's Freeholder But how indifferent foever man may be to eterna happinefs, yet furely to eternal mifery none can b indifferent Rogers 3. Not to have fuch difference as that th one is for its own fake preferable to th other The nature of things indiferent is neither to be commanded nor forbidden, but left free and arbitrary Hooker Cuftoms, which of themfelves are indifferent i other kingdoms became exceedingly evil in this realm by reafon of the inconveniencies which followe thereupon Dawies Though at firft it was free, and in my choic whether or no I {hould publifh thefe difcourfes; yet the publication being once refolyed, the dedicatio was not {0 indifferent Soisth and a father to ever one Afcham I am a moft poor woman, and a ftranger Born out of your dominions ; having her ;minable by its Jaft judgment, would:be as great a imperfeltion as the want of Judifferency toa&, o not to aét, till determined by the will Laocke Rea Locke Impartial; difinterefted all; a mafter for the whole not deter- 2. Impartiality Metcalfe was partial to none, but indifferent t acke 2. [In chronology. 'The indiftion, initi- 2. Uinconcerned; inattentive ; regardlefs tuted by Conttantine the Great, is proOne thing was all to you, and your fondnefs mad you indifferent to every thing elfe perly a cycle of tributes, orderly difpofed Temple It was a law of Solon, that any perfon who, i for fifteen years, and by it accounts o tha This T mention only as my conjedture, it bein indifférent to the matter which way the learned fhat 10 choice of committees it is better to chufe in and no more affuranc Of equal friendfhip and proceeding Shakefpeare an kindre There, can hardly be an indijferent trial had between the king and the fubjeét, or hetween part party b reafo confanguismity U 1. 'To fhow IN of this genera an Dawvies . Paflable; having mediocrity; ofa middling fiate ; neither good mnor wortt This is an improper and colloquial ufe efpecially when applied to perfons Some things admit of mediocrity A counfelior, or pleader at the bar May want Meflala's pow'rful eloquentce Or be lefs read than deep Caflelius Yet this ézdiff *rent lawyer is citeem'd Who would excel Rofcommon whea few can make a teft Betwixt indff'vent writing and the beft2 Dryder "This has obliged me to publifh an indijferent co letion of poems, for fear of being thought the autho of a worfe Prior There is not one of thefe fubjefts that woul not fell a very indifferent paper, could I think o gratifying the publick by fuch mean and bafe methods Addifon 6. In the fame fenfe it has the forc adverb I a of a myfelf indijferent honeft; but yet I coul accufe me of fuch \things, that it were better tha my mother had not born me. Shakefpeare's Hamlet Thi will raife a great fcum on'it wine indifferent clear and leave your Mortimer. INDI/FFERENTLY adv [indifferenter Lat. 1. Without diftin&ion; without preference Whitenefs is a mea between ail colours, havin itfelf indifjerently to the all, fo as with equal fa cility to be tinged with any of them Were pardon extended izdifferentl of them would think himfelf unde obligation Though a church-of-England-ma fpecies of government equally lawful think them equally expedient, or fo indifferently 2. Equally Newtorn to all, whic any particula Addifon thinks ever he does no every countr impartially Sawift They may truly and indifferently minifler}"uflice Commo Prayer 3. In aneutral ftate; without wifh or averfion Set honour in one eye, and death import.tsv th? other Shake(p And I will look on death indifferently 4. Not well; tolerably ; paflibly ; middling A moyle will draw indifferently well, and carr Carew great burthens I hope it may indifferently entertain your lordthi Rowe at an unbending hour An hundred and fifty of their beds, fown toge ther, kept me but very indijférently trom the floor Gulliver's Travels I'sp16eNcE, #. f. [indigence, ¥r. indi I'NpicENCY gentia enur Lat. Want poventy R Whegfe the}ie is Y xl}:pinefs,- there muft not be indigency, or wantof any due comforts of life Burnet's Theory For ev'n that indigence, that brings me low Makes me myfelf, and him above to know. Dryder Athen worfhippe Go wit temples an fa crifices, as if he needed habitation and fuftenance and that the heathens had fuch a mean apprehenfio about the indigency of their gods, appears fro Ariftophanes and Lucian Inpr'cEnovus adj Bentley [indigene, ¥r. indigena Lat.] Native to a country; originall produced or born in a region _ Negross |