influencive

[English influenc (e); -ive.] Tending to influence; influential. *in-flû-ent, a. & s. [Lat. influens , pr. par. of influo to flow in: in- =in, and fluo to flow.] A. As adjective : IMG:content-1654.png:[blocks in formation] inform in-flû-en-tial (ti as sh), a . [Lat. influens (gen it. influent is); Eng. adj. suff.- ial .] Po e ing or exerting influence by invisible operation, either as physical causes on bodies, or as moral causes on the mind; po e ing power or influence, as from superiority of position, rank, intellect, wealth, . "Thy influential vigour reinspires This feeble frame." Thompson: Sickne , bk. iii. In-fu-en-tial-lỹ (ti as sh), adv . [Eng. influen tial; -ly.] In an influential manner; so as to influence. "Embrace not the blind side of opinions, but that which looks most luciferously and influentially unto good ne ."-Browne: Christian Morals. In-flû-en-zą, s. [Ital. influence.) (See def.) Path .: A specific catarrhal inflammation of the mucous membranes of the air-pa ages, contagious, and often epidemic, attended with early involvement of chill, la itude, and prostration to a marked degree, intense frontal headache, giddine , and acrid discharge from the nose, with sleeple nights, and sometimes delirium. Persistent cough, worst at nights, expectoration, remittent feverishne , with nocturnal exacerbations, lasting from four to eight days, sometimes complicated with bronchitis or even pneumonia. Everything tending to depre the spirits must be avoided. This specific disease-poison in some epidemics is said to be as fatal as cholera, and has been occasionally mistaken for typhoid fever. In-flux, s . [Lat. influx us a flowing in, from influo to flow in; Sp. influxo ; Ital. in flus so .] 1. The act of flowing in or into anything. "Either of these, if timely applied, will resist the influx."-Wiseman: Chirurg. Treatises, bk. i., ch. iii. *2. Infusion, intromi ion. everlasting life." Hale: Orig. of Mankind. "The influx of the knowledge of God, in relation to this abundance; that which flows in. 3. A coming in; an introduction or importation in Falkland Islands. "A sudden and unexampled influx of riches." -Johnson 4. The place or point at which one stream flows or runs into another, or into the sea. *5. Influence, power, authority, weight. "These two do not so much concern sea-fish, yet they have a great influx upon rivers, ponds, and lakes."- Hale : Orig. of Mankind. *In-fluxion (fluxion as fiŭk-shun), s. [Latin influxio, from influx us , pa. par. of influo ; French influxion .] A flowing in or into; infusion, intromi ion. "The state which is most susceptible of divine in fluxion ." -Bacon: Advancement of Learning, bk. ii. *In-fluxious (fluxious as flŭk'-shyŭs), a. [Eng. influx ; -ious.] Influential. "The moon hath an influx i ous power to make impre ions upon their humors." -Howel: English Tears. *in-flux-ive, a. [Eng. influx ; -ive.] Having a tendency to flow in; influential. "He is the influzive head who governs the whole body." -Holds worth: Inauguration Sermon (1624), p. 9. *in-flux-ỹ, s . [Eng. influx ; -у. IMG:content-1655.png:[blocks in formation] "Not by forms or celestial influxies ." Hist . , § 997. In-föld', v . t . [Pref. in- (1), and Eng. fold (q.v.).] 1. To wrap up, to inwrap, to inclose. "Refulgent arms his mighty limbs infold." Pope: Homer's Iliad, xiii. 38. 2. To clasp in the arms; to embrace. "Noble Banquo, let me infold thee, And hold thee to my heart." *3. To shut up, to confine. Shakesp.: Macbeth , 1. 4. "Then Troians in their walls Had beene infolded like meeke lambs." Chapman: Homer's Iliad, viii. *4. To involve, to surround. "These powers infold the Greek and Trojan train." Pope : Homer's Iliad , xiii. 451. In-föld-ment, s. [Eng. infold; -ment.] The act of infolding; the state of being infolded. *in-fo-li-ate, v . t . [Lat. in- =in, on, and folium =a leaf.] To cover or overspread with leaves. "Long may his fruitful vine in foliate and clasp about him with embracements."-Howel. In-form', *in-forme, v . t . & i. [Fr. informer , from Lat. informo , from in- =in, into, and form a =a form, a shape; Sp. & Port. in for mar ; Ital. in form are .] A. Transitive : *1. To give form or shape to. "She gilded us, but you are gold; and she Informed us." Donne: To the Counte of Hunting don. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, *1. To take form or shape; to become visible. "It is the bloody busine which informs Thus to mine eyes." Shakesp.: Macbeth . ii. 1. " Information having been given me about two or three months since."- Sir W. Temple: Let. to Col. Sidney, April 29, 1667. 4. Knowledge acquired from reading or instruc- tion, or from the use of the senses and intellectual powers; as, He is a man of great information . II. Law : 1. Generally in criminal law, an information is a substitute for an ordinary indictment filed by the State's Attorney or United States District Attorney in certain cases of misdemeanor. Anat.: Beneath the ribs. infra-maxillary, a . charged with a crime, or an offense punishable summarily. In-form-a-tive, a. [Fr. in format if ; Ital. & Sp. informativo .] Having power to animate or give vitality. "Many put out their force informative ." More: On the Soul , pt. ii., c. 2. *In-form-a-tor-ý, a. [Lat. in format or an in- struct or; Eng. adj. suff. y.) Full of information; affording knowledge or information; instructive. *In-formed, a. [Pref. in- (2), and Eng. formed (q.v.).] Not formed or arranged; ill-formed, shape- le . "Infinite shapes of creatures men doe find, Informed in the mud." Spenser: F. Q. , III. vi. 8. informed-stars, s . pl . [UNFORMED-STARS.] In-form-er, s. [Eng. inform ; -er.] IMG:content-1656.png:[blocks in formation] infra-spinous, a. [INFRA-SPINATE.] infra-territorial, a . Within the territory infra-trochlear, s . IMG:content-1657.png:[blocks in formation] person against whom he lays an information. "The King, as might have been expected, coldly refused to turn informer ." -Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xv. "If we affirm a total in for mity , it cannot admit so for- ward a term as an abort ment."- Browne : Vulgar Errors, bk. iii., ch. vi. *In form-ous, a . [Lat. in form is .] [INFORM, a.] Without regular shape or form; shapele . Errors , bk. iii., ch. vi. "A rude and in for mous lump of flesh."- Browne : Vulgar *In-for-tu-nate, *in-for-tu-nat, a. [Lat. in for- tunatus , from in- =not, and for tun at us =fortunate (q. v.); Ital. in for tuna to ; Sp. in for tuna do .] Unfor- tunate; unlucky. (Chaucer: C. T., 4,722.) "On man, that cleued to a mast, and cam to the londe, (Note.) and told the infortune." -Robert of Gloucester, p. 439. *In-for-tuned, a. [Pref. in- (2), and Eng. for- tun(e); -ed.] Unlucky; unfortunate. "I wofull wretche and in fortuned wight." Chaucer: Troilus , bk. iv. IMG:content-1658.jpg:[blocks in formation] In-fra-me-di-an, a. [Pref. infra- , and Eng. median , from Lat. median us =that is in the middle.] [MEDIAN (1).] Biol. & Hydrol .: Of or belonging to the zone of animal and vegetable life in the parts of the sea where the water is from fifty to one hundred fathoms in depth. In-fra-mun-dane, a . [Pref. infra- , and Eng. mundane (q. v.).] Lying below or beneath the world. In-frăn-chişe, v . t . [ENFRANCHISE.] In-frăn-gi-bil-1-ty, s. [Pref. in- (2), and Eng. frangibility (q. v.).] The quality or state of being infrangible; infrangiblene . In-frăn-gi-ble, a . [Pref. in- (2), and Eng. fran gible (q. v.); Fr. infrangible .] 1. Lit .: That cannot be broken. "[He] link'd their fetlocks with a golden band, Infrangible, immortal." Pope: Homer's Iliad, xiii. 57. IMG:content-1659.png:[blocks in formation]