*incom*

v. t. See Encumber. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be incapable of combining; to disagree; to differ. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. incombustilité. ] The quality of being incombustible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + combustible: cf. F. incombustible. ] Not combustible; not capable of being burned, decomposed, or consumed by fire; uninflammable; as, asbestus is an incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas. [ 1913 Webster ]

Incombustible cloth, a tissue of amianthus or asbestus; also, a fabric imbued with an incombustible substance.

-- In`com*bus"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*bus"ti*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

More abundant incomes of light and strength from God. Bp. Rust. [ 1913 Webster ]

At mine income I louted low. Drant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I would then make in and steep
My income in their blood. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as, a large income. [ 1913 Webster ]

No fields afford
So large an income to the village lord. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Physiol.) That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; -- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. See Food. Opposed to output. [ 1913 Webster ]

Income bond, a bond issued on the income of the corporation or company issuing it, and the interest of which is to be paid from the earnings of the company before any dividends are made to stockholders; -- issued chiefly or exclusively by railroad companies. --
Income tax, a tax upon a person's incomes, emoluments, profits, etc., or upon the excess beyond a certain amount.

Syn. -- Gain; profit; proceeds; salary; revenue; receipts; interest; emolument; produce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who comes in. [ 1913 Webster ]

Outgoers and incomers. Lew Wallace. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who succeeds another, as a tenant of land, houses, etc. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Coming in; accruing. [ 1913 Webster ]

A full incoming profit on the product of his labor. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Coming in, succeeding, or following, as occupant or possessor; as, in incoming tenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of coming in; arrival. [ 1913 Webster ]

The incomings and outgoings of the trains. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Income; gain. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Many incomings are subject to great fluctuations. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of comity; incivility; rudeness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. incommensurabilité. ] The quality or state of being incommensurable. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + commensurable: cf. F. incommensurable. ] Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable. [ 1913 Webster ]

They are quantities incommensurable. Burke.

-- In`com*men"su*ra*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*men"su*ra*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of two or more quantities which have no common measure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not of equal of sufficient measure or extent; not adequate; as, our means are incommensurate to our wants.

Syn. -- Inadequate; insufficient; disproportionate.

-- In`com*men"su*rate*ly, adv. -- In`com*men"su*rate*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incommiscibilis; pref. in- not + commiscibilis that can be mingled. ] Not commiscible; not mixable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being unmixed; separateness. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Incommodated p. pr. & vb. n. Incommodating ] [ L. incommodare. See Incommode. ] To incommode. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being incommoded; inconvenience. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Incommoded; p. pr. & vb. n. Incommoding. ] [ F. incommoder, L. incommodare inconvenient; pref. in- not + commodus convenient. See Commodious. ] To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by lack of room.

Syn. -- To annoy; disturb; trouble; molest; disaccomodate; inconvenience; disquiet; vex; plague. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inconvenience. [ R. ] Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of incommoded. [ Obs. ] Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + commodious: cf. LL. incommodious, L. incommodus, F. incommode. ] Tending to incommode; not commodious; not affording ease or advantage; unsuitable; giving trouble; inconvenient; annoying; as, an incommodious seat; an incommodious arrangement. -- In`com*mo"di*ous*ly, adv. -- In`com*mo"di*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Incommodities [ L. incommoditas: cf. F. incommodité. See Incommodious. ] Inconvenience; trouble; annoyance; disadvantage; encumbrance. [ Archaic ] Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

A great incommodity to the body. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Buried him under a bulk of incommodities. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. incommunicabilité. ] The quality or state of being incommunicable, or incapable of being imparted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incommunicabilis: cf. F. incommunicable. See In- not, and Communicable. ] Not communicable; incapable of being communicated, shared, told, or imparted, to others. [ 1913 Webster ]

Health and understanding are incommunicable. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those incommunicable relations of the divine love. South.

-- In`com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not communicated or imparted. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no communion or intercourse with each other. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Chinese . . . an incommunicative nation. C. Buchanan.

-- In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ly, adv. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ness, n. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

His usual incommunicativeness. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. incommutabilitas: cf. F. incommutabilité. ] The quality or state of being incommutable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incommutabilis: cf. F. incommutable. See In- not, and Commutable. ] Not commutable; not capable of being exchanged with, or substituted for, another. Cudworth. -- In`com*mut"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*mut"a*bly, adv.

{ } a. Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; not solid; incoherent; loose; discrete. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incomparabilis: cf. F. incomparable. See In- not, and Comparable. ] Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent. [ 1913 Webster ]

A merchant of incomparable wealth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A new hypothesis . . . which hath the incomparable Sir Isaac Newton for a patron. Bp. Warburton.

-- In*com"pa*ra*ble*ness, n. -- In*com"pa*ra*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

Delights incomparably all those corporeal things. Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Peerless; incomparable. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Encompass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. in- not + compassion: cf. F. incompassion. ] Lack of compassion or pity. [ Obs. ] Bp. Sanderson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. -ties [ Cf. F. incompatibilité. ] The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + compatible: cf. F. incompatible. ] [ It was formerly sometimes written incompetible. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not compatible; so differing as to be incapable of harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires, ambition. [ 1913 Webster ]

A strength and obduracy of character incompatible with his meek and innocent nature. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines. [ 1913 Webster ]

Incompatible terms (Logic), terms which can not be combined in thought.

Syn. -- Inconsistent; incongruous; dissimilar; irreconcilable; unsuitable; disagreeing; inharmonious; discordant; repugnant; contradictory. See Inconsistent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med. & Chem.) An incompatible substance; esp., in pl., things which can not be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or of opposing medicinal qualities; as, the incompatibles of iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being incompatible; incompatibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an incompatible manner; inconsistently; incongruously.

{ } n. [ Cf. F. incompétence. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality or state of being incompetent; lack of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; lack of qualifications or training (for a particular task); insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child for hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts. “Some inherent incompetency.” Gladstone.
Syn. -- incompetence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Lack of competency or legal fitness; incapacity; disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness, or to act as a juror, or of a judge to try a cause.

Syn. -- Inability; insufficiency; inadequacy; disqualification; incapability; unfitness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incompetens: cf. F. incompétent. See In- not, and Competent. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Incompetent to perform the duties of the place. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence; a mentally defective person is incompetent to care for himself and requires a legal guardian. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Richard III. had a resolution, out of hatred to his brethren, to disable their issues, upon false and incompetent pretexts, the one of attainder, the other of illegitimation. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible.

Syn. -- Incapable; unable; inadequate; insufficient; inefficient; disqualified; unfit; improper. -- Incompetent, Incapable. Incompetent is a relative term, denoting a lack of the requisite qualifications for performing a given act, service, etc.; incapable is absolute in its meaning, denoting lack of power, either natural or moral. We speak of a man as incompetent to a certain task, of an incompetent judge, etc. We say of an idiot that he is incapable of learning to read; and of a man distinguished for his honor, that he is incapable of a mean action. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an competent manner; inadequately; unsuitably. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Incompatibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Incompatible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incompletus: cf. F. incomplet. See In- not, and Complete. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective. [ 1913 Webster ]

A most imperfect and incomplete divine. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

Incomplete equation (Alg.), an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an incomplete manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being incomplete; imperfectness; defectiveness. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]