Shak.
4. Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude;
unpolished; inelegant.
That 's an ill phrase.
Shak.
Ill at ease, uneasy; uncomfortable; anxious. "I am very ill at ease."
Shak. -- Ill blood, enmity; resentment. -- Ill breeding, want of good
breeding; rudeness. -- Ill fame, ill or bad repute; as, a house of ill
fame, a house where lewd persons meet for illicit intercourse. -- Ill
humor, a disagreeable mood; bad temper. -- Ill nature, bad disposition
or temperament; sullenness; esp., a disposition to cause unhappiness to
others. -- Ill temper, anger; moroseness; crossness. -- Ill turn. (a)
An unkind act. (b) A slight attack of illness. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Ill
will, unkindness; enmity; malevolence.
Syn. -- Bad; evil; wrong; wicked; sick; unwell.
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Ill (?), n. 1. Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents
success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the
ills of humanity.
Who can all sense of others' ills escape Is but a brute at best in
human shape.
Tate.
That makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others
that we know not of.
Shak.
2. Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness;
depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil.
Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, Exerts itself,
and then throws off the ill.
Dryden.
Ill, adv. In a ill manner; badly; weakly.
How ill this taper burns!
Shak.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth
accumulates and men decay.
Goldsmith.
Ill, like above, well, and so, is used before many participal
adjectives, in its usual adverbal sense. When the two words are used as
an epithet preceding the noun qualified they are commonly hyphened; in
other cases they are written separatively; as, an ill-educated man; he
was ill educated; an ill-formed plan; the plan, however ill formed, was
acceptable. Ao, also, the following: ill-affected or ill affected,
ill-arranged or ill arranged, ill-assorted or ill assorted, ill-boding
or ill boding, ill-bred or ill bred, ill- conditioned, ill-conducted,
ill-considered, ill- devised, ill-disposed, ill-doing, ill-fairing,
ill-fated, ill-favored, ill-featured, ill-formed, ill-gotten,
ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-looking, ill-mannered, ill-matched,
ill-meaning, ill-minded, ill-natured, ill-omened, ill-proportioned,
ill-provided, ill-required, ill-sorted, ill-starred, ill-tempered,
ill-timed, ill-trained, ill-used, and the like.
I' ll (?). Contraction for I will or I shall.
I'll by a sign give notice to our friends.
Shak.
Il*lab"ile (?), a. Incapable of falling or erring; infalliable. [Obs.]
-- Il`la*bil"i*ty (#), n. [Obs.]
Il*lac"er*a*ble (?), a. [L. illacerabilis: cf. F. illacérable. See In-
not, and Lacerable.] Not lacerable; incapable of being torn or rent.
[Obs.]
Il*lac"ry*ma*ble (?), a. [L. illacrimabilis; pref. il- not +
lacrimabilis worthy of tears.] Incapable of weeping. [Obs.] Bailey.
Il*laps"a*ble (?), a. [Pref. il- not + lapsable.] Incapable of
slipping, or of error. [R.]
Morally immutable and illapsable.
Glanvill.
Il*lapse" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Illapsed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Illapsing.] [L. illapsus, p. p. of illabi; pref. il- in + labi to fall,
slide.] To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by into. Cheyne.
Il*lapse", n. [L. illapsus. See Illapse, v. i.] A gliding in; an
immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent
or attack. Akenside.
They sit silent . . . waiting for an illapse of the spirit.
Jeffrey.
Il*la"que*a*ble (?), a. Capable of being insnared or entrapped. [R.]
Cudworth.
Il*la"que*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Illaqueated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Illaqueating.] [L. illaqueatus, p. p. of illaqueare; pref. il- in +
laqueare to insnare, fr. laqueus, noose, snare.] To insnare; to entrap;
to entangle; to catch.
Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his
scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense.
Coleridge.
Il*la`que*a"tion (?), n. 1. The act of catching or insnaring. [R.] Sir
T. Browne.