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Show I IN Si&. 2. Modulation of the voice His virtue, his gefture, his countenanee, his zeal INFLUENCE voice, who firft uttereth them as his own, is tha which giveth the very effence of inftruments availHooker able to eternal life 3 Varmtlo nou Of o 1. Power of the celeftial afpects operatin upon terreftrial bodies and affairs Brerewood Havin ity of the ajr is a great incumti e qua This infle brance and confufion of aftronomical obfervations Derbam from inflexible. INFLE'XIBLE'NESS 1. Stiffnefs; quality of refifting flexure 2. Obftinacy; temper not to be bent; inexorable pertinacy INFLEXIBLE. adj. [ French ; inflexibilis, Lat. 1. Not to be bent or incurvated A wife man fhall over-rule his ftars, an ma refoly' and fteady to hi Th tural relations wnalterable: we muft bring our underftandings to things, and not bend things to ou fancies InPLE'XIBLY. adv. [from inflexible.] Inexorably; invariably ; without relaxatio guide or lea or remiflion T¢ INFLICT infliger, ¥r. «. a [infligo, inflictuz, Lat 'To put in act or impof 2 Cor, ii Infald bis limbs in bands, and fill his veins with foed Black, Wings raife her arms, and wings her feet 7zfo/d Addifor. have prefent izflu The chief intention of chirurgery InrLr'cTER. 7. /. [from inflif. punifhes dicine, is keeping a juft equilibriu influent fluids and vafcular folids He wh Dead to infliction, to themfelves are dead 4od liberty plucks juftice by the nofe. Shakefpeare Sin ends certainly in death; death not only a to merit, but alfo as to a&ual infliction South 2. The punifhment impofed but thy malice mov'd thee to mifdee Of righteous Job, than cruelly to affli¢t hi With all infliczions2 But his patience won Mils How defpicable are the threats of a creature a . ~¥mpotentas ourfelves, when compared with the wrat of an Almighty Judge, whofe power extends to eter- infliction righteoufnefs are i Rogers themfelves aéts o Rogers Invui'crive. ad), [inflittive, Fr. fromin machine o the mof dangeroufly influential IUNFYLUX #. / {ublime [influxus Lat. 1. A& of flowing into any thing We will enquire whether there be, in the footftep of nature, any fuch tranfmiffion and infux of im materiate virtues, and what the force of imagination is, either upon the body imaginant, or upo another body Bacon's Nat. Hift. If once contracted in a fyftole, by the izflux of th fpirits, why, the fpirits continually flowing in withRay out let, doth it not always remain fo An claftick fibre, like a bow, the more extended it reftores itfelf with the greater force: if the fprin be deftroyed, it is like a bag, only paffive as to th influx of the liquid Arbuthuor Breath: informs this fleeting frame. Prier "Fhis fovereign arbitrary fou ledge and animates the whole Blackmore t acquaint Befor th thing communicated was anciently put with now generally of'; fometimes iz, I kno not how properly between th Arbuthnot Glanville from chaos, huddl'd and deform'd god ftruck fire, and lighted up the lamp beautify the fky; fo he izform' ill-fhap'd body with a daring foul. Dryd. and Lec 2. To inftruét ; to fupply with new know as well as me ar A Th Tha Thi Dryden's Lins While life izforms thefe limbs, the king reply'd Pope Well to deferve be all my cares employ'd Flowin intelle¢tuals And foften into flefh a marble face Dyiforms, and moves Rogers are interrupted by the interpofal of the benighte Glanville element The inward fprings and wheels of the corpora So our decrees ufed Let others better mold the running maf Of metals, and /nform the breathing brafs Our now overfhadowed fouls may be emblerne by thofe crufted globes, whofe influential emiflion InrrdcTioN. 7 [ [from inflict. ¥. The a@ of ufing punithments Not muc With radiant light, as glowing ir'n with fire. 27i/t The drift is to izform their minds wwizh fome me INFLUE'NTIAL, adj. [from influence.] Exerting influence or power Revenge is commonly not bounded, but extende to the utmoft power of the inficter Guovernment of the Tongue cover with leaves All alike izform'd in venge, or inflicted by the greateft tyrants upon th worft of men Temple T 1. To animate ; to attuateBy vital powers. which influenced. their obedience has loft its efficac By luxury we condemn ourfelves to greater torments than have been yet invented by anger or re To Inro'L1ATE. w. 4. [inand folium, Lat.] 70 INFO'RM. w. a. [informer, French ; inJormo, Latin. tion of one law, broken through; and the principl I'NFLUENT. adj. [influens, Lat. Pope. Long may his froitful vine infoliate and clafp about him with embracements Howel and live, and are on them but elegant All the reftraint men are under is, by the viola What the potent vi¢tor in his rag Can elfe inflici Milton What heart could wifh, what band infli& thi dire difgrace Dyyden's &in Shakefpeare, But does not nature for the clild prepar "The parent's Jove, the tender nurfe's care Wheo, for their own forgetful, feek his good ~ Auence their faith and praice, if they attend Atterbury Sufficient is this punithment which was inflicted juftice an And hold thee to my heart. Milton Thefe experiments fucceed after the fame manne in wacwo as in the open air, and therefore are no influenced by the weight or preflure of the atmo{phere Newton''s Opticks. This ftanding revelation was attefted in the mof folemn and credible manner; and is fufficient to 77z I know no pain, they can 77/ upon him Will make him fay I mov'd him to thofe arms Shakefpeare ~w infliEtions _ His fever His golden wings Fairy Queers; Noble Banquo, let me i7fold thee to any end The various creatures move as a punifhment What With greedy paws, and over all did fprea By thy kind pow'r and influencing care It fhould be begun early, and inflexibly kept to *till there appears not the leaft relutancy Locke Howel For all the creft a dragon did inful 70 'NFLUENCE. @. 2. [from the noun. To a& upon with diretive or impulfiv power; to modify to any purpofe; t Watts. lutions Atterbury Where it ought to have greateft izfluence, thi obvious indifputable truth is little regarded. Rogers nature of things is infleaible, and their na Influ To Ixro'Lp. w.a. [z and fold] 'To involve; to inwrap; to inclofe with invo ence upon them, but not produce a lafting effect 3. Not to be changed or altered adj. (from influx. ' preflions upon their humours Our inconfiftency in the purfuit of fcheme throughly digefted, has a bad izf/uence on our affairs So attonifhing a fcene woul rivers, ponds, and . Hale The moon hath an izfluxious power to make im- city of men, that it ought to be upheld, not onl out of a dread of the divine vengeance in anothe world, but out of regard to temporal profperity Tillotfon Inflexible to ill, and obftinately juft Addifon A man of an upright and izflexible temper, i the execution of his country's la\‘[s, can overcom all private fear Addifon concern fea-fith, ye Not ufed ential Religion hath fo great an influence upon the feli truft two do not fo muc InFrLu'xt0Us Milton 2. Not to be prevailed on; immoveable might have held, by th they have a great izflux upo lakes greater influence upon his own content than all th conftellations and planets of the firmament. Zay/or Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault Such errors as are but acorns in our younger brows grow oaks in our older heads, and become /nzflexibl Brown to the powerful arm of reafon Too great rigidity and elafticity of the fibres make them inflexible to the caufes, to which they ough to yield Arbuthnot Th hav Adam, in innocence Thef Incomparable lady, your commandment doth no only give me the will, but the power to obey you Sidney fuch influence hath your excellency God hath his influence into the very eflence o all things, without which influence of Deity fupporting them, their utter annihilation could no Hooker chufe but follow n. [. [inflexibilité, Fr In this fenfe it i continued /zflux of the divine will and power, a ftat of immortality Hale 2. Afcendant power; power of dire¢ting o modifying. It was anciently followe by into; now, lefs properly, by zpon the power of bending 3. Influence; power now not ufed Milton The facred influence of light appears Comets no rule, no rightesus order own Their influence dreaded, as their ways unknown Prior The fame word in the original tongue, by diver infleélions and variations, makes divers dialets INFLEXIBI'LITY There is another life after this; and the /2fu of the knoéwledge of God, in relation to this everlafting life, is infinitely of moment Hale ¥r. influo 7. /. [influence 2. Infufion; intromiffion Lat. Verb InrrecTivE. adj. [from infle. 'That which impofes a2 punith ment and the infleéion of hi the motion of his body VNA thod of reducing the laws into their original caufes. Hooker. 1 have this prefent eveniag from my fifte Been: well ixform'd of them Qur ruin and with cautions by thee inform'd, ¥ learn Shakefp Milton The long fpeeches rather confounded than izforme Clarendin his underftanding The difficulty arifes not from what fenfe izform us of, but from wrong applying our notions. Digby. Though L may not be able to izforzn men more than they know, yet I may give them the occafion t Temple confider The ancients examined in what confifts the beaut of good poftures, as their works fufficiently. ingorm,us ryden He may be ignorant of thefe truths, who will ne ver take the pains to employ his faculties to iufor himfelf of them Locke T underftand the commonwealth is enough: few izfor and religion themfelves iz thefe to th bottom Locke A: more proper opportunity tends to make the narration more zforming or beautiful Broopre. 1 thin |