His shipping, Poor ignorant baubles! -- on our terrible seas, Like
eggshells moved.
Shak.
Syn. -- Uninstructed; untaught; unenlightened; uninformed; unlearned;
unlettered; illiterate. -- Ignorant, Illiterate. Ignorant denotes want
of knowledge, either as to single subject or information in general;
illiterate refers to an ignorance of letters, or of knowledge acquired
by reading and study. In the Middle Ages, a great proportion of the
higher classes were illiterate, and yet were far from being ignorant,
especially in regard to war and other active pursuits.
In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant
More learned than the ears.
Shak.
In the first ages of Christianity, not only the learned and the
wise, but the ignorant and illiterate, embraced torments and death.
Tillotson.
Ig"no*rant, n. A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or
unskilled; an ignoramous.
Did I for this take pains to teach Our zealous ignorants to preach?
Denham.
Ig"no*rant*ism (?), n. The spirit of those who extol the advantage of
ignorance; obscurantism.
Ig"no*rant*ist, n. One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an
obscurantist.
Ig"no*rant*ly, adv. In a ignorant manner; without knowledge;
inadvertently.
Whom therefoer ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Acts xvii. 23.
Ig*nore" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ignored (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Ignoring.] [L. ignorare; pref. in- not + the root of gnarus knowing,
noscere to become acquainted with. See Know, and cf. Narrate.] 1. To be
ignorant of or not acquainted with. [Archaic]
Philosophy would solidly be established, if men would more
carefully distinguish those things that they know from those that
they ignore.
Boyle.
2. (Law) To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a
bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus.
3. Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to
recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly; as, to ignore
certain facts; to ignore the presence of an objectionable person.
Ignoring Italy under our feet, And seeing things before, behind.
Mrs. Browning.
Ig*nos"ci*ble (?), a. [L. ignoscibilis, fr. ignoscere to pardon, lit.,
not to wish to know; pref. in- not + gnoscere, noscere, to learn to
know. See In- not, and Know.] Pardonable. [Obs.] Bailey.
Ig*note" (?), a. [L. ignotus; pref. in- not + gnotus, notus, known, p.
p. of gnocere, nocere, to learn to know.] Unknown. [Obs.] Sir E.
Sandys. -- n. One who is unknown. Bp. Hacket.
I*gua"na (?), n. [Sp. iguana, from the native name in Hayti. Cf.
Guana.] (Zoöl.) Any species of the genus Iguana, a genus of large
American lizards of the family Iguanidæ. They are arboreal in their
habits, usually green in color, and feed chiefly upon fruits.
The common iguana (Iguana iguana, formerly Iguana tuberculata, and also
called by other synonyms) of the West Indies and South America is
sometimes five feet long. Its flesh is highly prized as food. The
horned iguana (Iguana cornuta) has a conical horn between the eyes.
I*gua"ni*an (?), a. (Zoöl.) Resembling, or pertaining to, the iguana.
I*gua"nid (?), a. (Zoöl.) Same as Iguanoid.
I*gua"no*don (?), n. [Iguana + Gr. &?;, &?;, a tooth.] (Paleon.) A
genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and
large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the entire
body. Its teeth resemble those of the iguana, whence its name. Several
species are known, mostly from the Wealden of England and Europe. See
Illustration in Appendix.
I*gua"no*dont (?), a. (Paleon.) Like or pertaining to the genus
Iguanodon.
I*gua"noid (?), a. [Iguana + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the Iguanidæ.
Ih*lang`-ih*lang" (?), n. [Malayan, flower of flowers.] A rich,
powerful, perfume, obtained from the volatile oil of the flowers of
Canada odorata, an East Indian tree. [Also written ylang-ylang.]
||Ih*ram" (?), n. The peculiar dress worn by pilgrims to Mecca.
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Ik (?), pron. [See I.] I. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
The Northern dialectic form of I, in Early English, corresponding to
ich of the Southern.
Il- (?). A form of the prefix in-, not, and in-, among. See In-.
Ile (?), n. [AS. egl.] Ear of corn. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
Ile, n. [See Aisle.] An aisle. [Obs.] H. Swinburne.
Ile, n. [See Isle.] An isle. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Il"e*ac (?), a. [See Ileum.] 1. (Anat.) Pertaining to the ileum.
[Written also iliac.]