part ii.

When a man makes use of the name of any simple idea, which he perceives is not understood, or is in danger to be mistaken, he is obliged by the laws of _ingenuity_ and the end of speech, to declare his meaning, and make known what idea he makes it stand for.--LOCKE, _An Essay concerning Human Understanding_, b. iii. c. 11, § 14.

It [gratitude] is such a debt as is left to every man’s _ingenuity_ (in respect to any legal coaction) whether he will pay it or no.--SOUTH, _Sermons_, vol. i. p. 410.

By his _ingenuousness_ he [the good handicrafts-man] leaves his art better than he found it.--FULLER, _Holy State_, b. ii. c. 19.

=INN.= This has always meant a lodging, a place to which one turns _in_; but it is now, and for a long time has been, restricted to one which yields food and shelter, or it may be only the last, in return for payment. Such terms as Lincoln’s Inn, Gray’s Inn, attest the older use of the word.

Arcite anoon unto his _inne_ is fare, As fayn as foul is of the brighte sonne.

CHAUCER, _Knightes Tale_, 1578 (Morris, ii. p. 75).

The honey-makers’ busy buzzing swarm Fiercely assail and wound the naked skins Of such as come to rob their curious _inns_.

SYLVESTER, _Du Bartas, his Divine Works, The Capitaine_, 369.

=INSOLENT=, } INSOLENCE. }

The ‘insolent’ is properly no more than the unusual. This, as the violation of the fixed law and order of society, is commonly offensive, even as it indicates a mind willing to offend; and thus ‘insolent’ has acquired its present meaning. But for the poet, the fact that he is forsaking the beaten track, that he can say,

‘peragro loca, _nullius ante Trita solo_,’

in this way to be ‘insolent’ or original, as we should now say, may be his highest praise. The epithet ‘furious’ joined to ‘insolence’ in the second quotation is to be explained of that ‘fine madness’ which Spenser as a Platonist esteemed a necessary condition of the poet.

For ditty and amorous ode I find Sir Walter Raleigh’s vein most lofty, _insolent_, and passionate.--PUTTENHAM, _Art of English Poesy_, b. i. c. 3.

Her great excellence Lifts me above the measure of my might, That, being fild with furious _insolence_, I feele myselfe like one yrapt in spright.

SPENSER, _Colin Clout’s come Home again_, 619 (Morris, v. p. 105).

=INSTITUTE=, } INSTITUTER, } INSTITUTION. }

These all had once in English meanings coextensive with those of the Latin words which they represent. We now inform, instruct (the images are nearly the same), but we do not ‘institute,’ children any more.

A painful schoolmaster, that hath in hand To _institute_ the flower of all a land, Gives longest lessons unto those, where Heaven The ablest wits and aptest wills hath given.

SYLVESTER, _Du Bartas; Seventh Day of the First Week_.

Neither did he this for want of better instructions, having had the learnedest and wisest man reputed of all Britain, the _instituter_ of his youth.--MILTON, _History of England_, b. iii.

A Short Catechism for the _institution_ of young persons in the Christian Religion.--_Title of a Treatise by Jeremy Taylor._

=INTEND=, } INTENTION. }

The inveterate habit of procrastination has brought us to say now that we ‘intend’ a thing, when we mean hereafter to do it. Our fathers with a more accurate use of the word ‘intended’ that which they were at that moment actually and earnestly engaged in doing. The same habit of procrastination has made ‘by-and-bye’ mean not straightway, but at a comparatively remote period; and ‘presently’ not at this present, but in a little while. ‘Intention’ too, or ‘intension,’ for Jeremy Taylor in the same work spells the word both ways, was once something not future but present.

The Devil sleepeth not. He ever _intendeth_ to withdraw us from prayer.--LATIMER, _Sermons_, vol. i. p. 342.

So often as he [Augustus] was at them [the games], he did nothing else but _intend_ the same.--HOLLAND, _Suetonius_, p. 60.

He [Lord Bacon] saw plainly that natural philosophy hath been _intended_ by few persons, and in them hath occupied the least part of their time.--BACON, _Filum Labyrinthi_, 6.

It is so plain that every man profiteth in that he most _intendeth_, that it needeth not to be stood upon.--Id., _Essays_, 29.

I suffer for their guilt now, and my soul, Like one that looks on ill-affected eyes, Is hurt with mere _intention_ on their follies.

BEN JONSON, _Cynthia’s Revels_.

But did you not Observe with what _intention_ the duke Set eyes on Domitilla?

SHIRLEY, _The Royal Master_, act ii. sc. 1.

According as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect; meditation being the soul of prayer, and the _intention_ of our spirit.--Bishop TAYLOR, _Life of Christ_,