| Infer |
v. t. |
To bring on; to induce; to occasion. |
| Infer |
v. t. |
To offer, as violence. |
| Infer |
v. t. |
To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer. |
| Infer |
v. t. |
To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence. |
| Infer |
v. t. |
To show; to manifest; to prove. |
| Inferable |
a. |
Capable of being inferred or deduced from premises. |
| Inference |
n. |
The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction. |
| Inference |
n. |
That which inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction. |
| Inferential |
a. |
Deduced or deducible by inference. |
| Inferentially |
adv. |
By way of inference. |
| Inferiae |
n. pl. |
Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends. |
| Inferior |
a. |
Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath. |
| Inferior |
a. |
Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods. |
| Inferior |
a. |
Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus. |
| Inferior |
a. |
Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian. |
| Inferior |
a. |
Situated below some other organ;
said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx. |
| Inferior |
a. |
On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior. |
| Inferior |
a. |
Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer. |
| Inferior |
n. |
A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another. |
| Inferiority |
|
The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. |
| Inferiorly |
adv. |
In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part. |
| Infernal |
a. |
Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. |
| Infernal |
a. |
Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct. |
| Infernal |
n. |
An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself. |
| Infernally |
adv. |
In an infernal manner; diabolically. |
| Inferno |
n. |
The infernal regions; hell. Also used fig. |
| Inferobranchian |
n. |
One of the Inferobranchiata. |
| Inferobranchiata |
n. pl. |
A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle. |
| Inferobranchiate |
a. |
Having the gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata. |
| Inferred |
imp. & p. p. |
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| Inferrible |
a. |
Inferable. |
| Inferring |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
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| Infertile |
a. |
Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil. |
| Infertilely |
adv. |
In an infertile manner. |
| Infertility |
n. |
The state or quality of being infertile; unproductiveness; barrenness. |
