2. To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink
or by a narcotic substance.
With new wine inoxicated both.
Milton.
3. To excite to a transport of enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; to elate
unduly or excessively.
Intoxicated with the sound of those very bells.
G. Eliot.
They are not intoxicated by military success.
Jowett (Thuc. ).
In*tox"i*ca`ted*ness (?), n. The state of being intoxicated;
intoxication; drunkenness. [R.]
In*tox"i*ca`ting (?), a. Producing intoxication; fitted to intoxicate;
as, intoxicating liquors.
In*tox`i*ca"tion (?), n. 1. (Med.) A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a
narcotic substance.
2. The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety;
drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk.
2. A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm,
frenzy, or madness.
That secret intoxication of pleasure.
Spectator.
Syn. -- Drunkenness; inebriation; inebriety; ebriety; infatuation;
delirium. See Drunkenness.
||In"tra- (?). [L. intra, prep., within, on the inside; akin to inter.
||See Inter-.] A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as,
||intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal.
||
In`tra*ax"il*la*ry (?), a. (Bot.) Situated below the point where a leaf
joins the stem.
In`tra*cel"lu*lar (?), a. (Biol.) Within a cell; as, the intracellular
movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the
protoplasm of some vegetable cells.
In`tra*col"ic (?), a. (Anat.) Within the colon; as, the intracolic
valve.
In`tra*cra"ni*al (?), a. Within the cranium or skull. Sir W. Hamilton.
In*tract`a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being intractable;
intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
In*tract"a*ble (?), a. [L. intractabilis: cf. F. intraitable, formerly
also intractable. See In- not, and Tractable.] Not tractable; not
easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught,
disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an
intractable child.
Syn. -- Stubborn; perverse; obstinate; refractory; cross; unmanageable;
unruly; headstrong; violent; ungovernable; unteachable.
-- In*tract"a*ble*ness, n. -- In*tract"a*bly, adv.
In*tract"ile (?), a. Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or
extended. Bacon.
In*tra"dos (?), n. [F., fr. L. intra within + F. dos the back, L.
dorsum. Cf. Extrados.] (Arch.) The interior curve of an arch; esp., the
inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken
together. See Extrados.
In`tra*fo`li*a"ceous (?), a. (Bot.) Growing immediately above, or in
front of, a leaf; as, intrafoliaceous stipules.
In`tra*fu"sion (?), n. [Pref. intra- + L. fundere, fusum, to pour.]
The act of pouring into a vessel; specif. (Med.), the operation of
introducing a substance into a blood vessel; as, intrafusion of blood.
In`tra*lob"u*lar (?), a. (Anat.) Within lobules; as, the intralobular
branches of the hepatic veins.
In`tra*mar"gin*al (?), a. Situated within the margin. Loudon.
In`tra*mer*cu"ri*al (?), a. (Astron.) Between the planet Mercury and
the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial.
In`tra*mo*lec"u*lar (?), a. (Chem. & Physics) Between molecules;
situated, or acting, between the molecules of bodies.
In`tra*mun"dane (?), a. Being within the material world; -- opposed to
extramundane.
In`tra*mu"ral (?), a. 1. Being within the walls, as of a city.
2. (Anat. & Med.) Being within the substance of the walls of an organ;
as, intramural pregnancy.
In`tran*quil"li*ty (?), n. Unquietness; restlessness. Sir W. Temple.
In`trans*ca"lent (?), a. Impervious to heat; adiathermic.
In`trans*gress"i*ble (?), a. [L. intragressibilis that can not be
crossed. See In- not, and Transgress.] Incapable of being transgressed;
not to be passed over or crossed. Holland.
In*tran"sient (?), a. Not transient; remaining; permanent. Killingbeck.
In*trans"i*gent (?), a. [F. intransigeant (cf. Sp. intransigente);
pref. in- not + L. transigere to come to an agreement; trans across +
agere to lead, act.] Refusing compromise; uncompromising;
irreconcilable. Lond. Sat. Rev.
||In`trans"i*gen*tes (?), n. pl. [Sp.] (Spanish Politics) The extreme
||radicals; the party of the irreconcilables.
||
In*tran"si*tive (?), a. [L. intransitivus: cf. F. intransitif. See In-
not, and Transitive.] 1. Not passing farther; kept; detained. [R.]
And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but
whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes
further.
Jer. Taylor.
2. (Gram.) Not transitive; not passing over to an object; expressing an
action or state that is limited to the agent or subject, or, in other
words, an action which does not require an object to complete the
sense; as, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs.
Intransitive verbs have no passive form. Some verbs which appear at
first sight to be intransitive are in reality, or were originally,
transitive verbs with a reflexive or other object omitted; as, he keeps
(i. e., himself) aloof from danger. Intransitive verbs may take a noun
of kindred signification for a cognate object; as, he died the death of
a hero; he dreamed a dream. Some intransitive verbs, by the addition of
a preposition, become transitive, and so admit of a passive voice; as,
the man laughed at; he was laughed at by the man.
In*tran"si*tive*ly, adv. (Gram.) Without an object following; in the
manner of an intransitive verb.
||In` tran"si*tu (?). [L.] (Law) In transit; during passage; as, goods
||in transitu.
||
In`trans*mis"si*ble (?), a. Not capable of being transmitted.
In`trans*mu`ta*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being intransmutable.
In`trans*mut"a*ble (?), a. Not capable of being transmuted or changed
into another substance.
In"trant (?), a. [L. intrans, p. pr. of intrare to enter. See Enter.]
Entering; penetrating.
In"trant, n. One who enters; especially, a person entering upon some
office or station. Hume.
In`tra*nu"cle*ar (?), a. (Biol.) Within the nucleus of a cell; as. the
intranuclear network of fibrils, seen in the first stages of
karyokinesis.
In*trap" (?), v. t. See Entrap. Spenser.
In"tra*pa*ri"e*tal (?), a. Situated or occurring within an inclosure;
shut off from public sight; private; secluded; retired.
I have no Turkish proclivities, and I do not think that, after all,
impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment to
intraparietal hanging.
Rolleston.
In`tra*pet"i*o*lar (?), a. (Bot.) Situated between the petiole and the
stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when
united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single
stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded
with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning.
In`tra*ter`ri*to"ri*al (?), a. Within the territory or a territory.
In`tra*tho*rac"ic (?), a. Within the thora&?; or chest.
In`tra*trop"ic*al (?), a. Within the tropics.
In`tra*u"ter*ine (?), a. Within the uterus or womb; as, intrauterine
hemorrhage.
In`tra*valv"u*lar (?), a. Between valves.
In`tra*ve"nous (?), a. Within the veins.
In`tra*ven*tric"u*lar (?), a. Within or between ventricles.
In*treas"ure (?; 135), v. t. To lay up, as in a treasury; to hoard.
[Obs.] Shak.
In*treat" (?), v. t. See Entreat. Spenser.
In*treat"a*ble (?), a. [Pref. in- not + treatable.] Not to be
entreated; inexorable.
In*treat"ance (?), n. Entreaty. [Obs.] Holland.
In*treat"ful (?), a. Full of entreaty. [Obs.] Spenser.
In*trench" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intrenched (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Intrenching.]