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IAMBLICHUS (d. c. A.D. 330)

IANNINA (i.e. " the city of St John "; Gr. Ioannina; Turk Yanid; also written Janina, Jannina, and, according to its Albanian pronunciation, Yanina)

IAPYDES, or IAPODES

IATROCHEMISTRY (coined from Gr. tarp6s, a physician, and " chemistry ")

IBAGUE, or SAN BONIFACIO DE IBAGUE

IBERIANS (Iberi, "I(3r7Aes)

IBN DURAID [Abu Bakr Mahommed ibn ul-I3asan ibn Duraid ul-Azdi] (837-934)

IBN FARID [Abu-l-Qasim `Umar ibn ul-Faritl] (1181-1235)

IBN GABIROL [SOLOMON BEN JUDAH]

IBN HAZM [Abu Mahommed 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn IJazm] (994-1064)

IBN HISHAM [Abu Mahommed 'Abdulmalik ibn Hisham ibn Ayyub ul-Himyari] (d. 834)

IBN ISHAQ [Mahommed ibn Ishaq Abu 'Abdallah] (d. 768)

IBN JUBAIR [.Abu-1 Ijusain Mahommed ibn Ahmad ibn Jubair] (1145-1217)

IBN KHALDUN [Abu Zaid ibn Mahommed ibn Mahommed ibn Khaldun] (1332-1406)

IBN KHALLIKAN [Abu-I `Abbas Ahmad ibn Khallikan] (1211-1282)

IBN QUTAIBA, or KOTAIBA [Abu Mahommed ibn Muslim ibn Qutaiba] (828–889)

IBRAHIM PASHA (1789–1848)

HENRIK IBSEN (1828-1906)

ICA (YCA, or ECCA)

ICE (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Eis)

ICEBERG (from ice and Berg, Ger. for hill, mountain)

ICELAND (Dan. Island)

ICHNEUMON (Gr. ixveu)

ICHNOGRAPHY (Gr. 'lxvos, a trace, and rypacn, description)

ICHTHYOLOGY (from Gr. LxObs, fish, and Xoyos, doctrine or treatise)

ICHTHYOPHAGI (Gr. for " fish-eaters ")

ICHTHYOSIS, or XERODERMA

ICKNIELD STREET

ICON (through the Latinized form, from Gr. eixiav, portrait, image)

ICONIUM (mod. Konia)

ICOSAHEDRON (Gr. e'IKOVL, twenty, and Ebpa, a face or base)

1ST STAFFORD HENRY NORTHCOTE IDDESLEIGH

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

IDEALISM (from Gr. i5Ea, archetype or model, through been urged of the truth of its point of view is the persistency Fr. idealisme)

CHRISTIAN LUDWIG IDELER (1766–1846)

IDENTIFICATION (Lat. idem, the same)

IDEOGRAPH (Gr. i&Ea, idea, and 'yparked', to write)

IDIOBLAST (Gr. lbws, peculiar, and f3Xavrbs, a shoot)

IDIOCY (from Gr. iblwrrls, in its secondary meaning of a deprived person)

IDIOM (Gr. t&%wµa, something peculiar and personal; lbws, one's own, personal)

IDIOSYNCRASY (Gr. Ibwavyspavia, peculiar habit of body or temperament; 'lbws, one's own, and viryKpao , blending, tempering, from o-vyiepavvvoOat, to put together, compound, mix)

IDRISI, or EDRISI [Abu Abdallah Mahommed Ibn Mahommed Ibn Abdallah Ibn Idrisi, c. A.D. 1099-1154]

IDUMAEA ('ISovµai'a)

IDYL, or IDYLL (Gr. ei5i XXeov, a descriptive piece, from ethos, a shape or style; Lat. idyllium)

ETHELRED AILRED IELRED (1109-1166)

NICOLAS IFLAMEL (c. 1330-1418)

IGLAU (Czech Jihlava)

COUNT NICHOLAS PAVLOVICH IGNATIEV (1832-1908)

IGNATIUS ('Iyvfrior)

IGNORAMUS (Latin for " we do not know," " we take no notice of ")

IGNORANCE (Lat. ignorantia, from ignorare, not to know); want of knowledge, a state of mind which in law has important consequences. A well-known legal maxim runs: ignorantia juris non excusat ("ignorance of the law does not excuse")

IGNORANTINES (Freres Ignorantins)

IGUVIUM (mod. Gubbio, q.v.)

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IJOLITE (derived from the first syllable of the Finnish words Jiwaru, Jijoki, &c., common as geographical names in the Kola peninsula, and the Gr. XLOos, a stone)

ILFORD [GREAT ILFORD]

ILLEGITIMACY (from " illegitimate," Lat. illegitimus, not in accordance with law, hence born out of lawful wedlock)

ILLUMINATED MSS

ILLUMINATI (Lat. illuminare)

IM (K2+a2+h2—2 ah cos 0)

IMAGE (Lat. imago, perhaps from the same root as imitari, copy, imitate)

IMBECILE (through the French from Lat. imbecillus or imbecillis, weak, feeble; of unknown origin)

IMBREX (Latin for " tile ")

IMERETIA, or IMERITIA

IMIDAZOLES, or GLYOXALINES

IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

THE IMITATION OF CHRIST (Imitatio Christi)

THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

IMMANENCE (from Lat. in-manere to dwell in, remain)

IMMANUEL BEN SOLOMON (c. 1265-c. 1330)

KARL LEBERECHT IMMERMANN (1796-1840)

IMMERSION (Lat. immersio, dipping),

IMMIGRATION (from Lat. in, into, and tnigrare, to depart)

IMMORTALITY (Lat. in-, not, mortalis, mortal, from mors, death)

IMMUNITY (from Lat. immunis, not subject to a munus or public service)

IMOLA (anc. Forum Cornelii)

IMP (O. Eng. impa, a graft, shoot; the verb impian is cognate with Ger. impfen, to graft, inoculate, and the Fr. enter; the ultimate origin is probably the Gr. 'µ4uety, to implant, cf. Et.A4Uros, engrafted)

IMPEACHMENT (O. Fr. empeahement, empeschement, from em pecher or empescher, to hinder, Late Lat. impedicare, to entangle, pedica, fetter, pes, foot)

IMPERIAL CHAMBER (Reichskammergericht)

IMPERIAL CITIES OR TOWNS

SIR ELIJAH IMPEY (1732-1809)

IMPLEMENT (Lat. implementum, a filling up, from implere, to fill)

IMPOSITION (from Lat. imponere, to place or lay upon)

IMPOST (through the O. Fr. from Lat. impositum, a thing laid upon another; the modern French is impot)

IMPOTENCE (Lat. impotentia, want of power)

IMPROMPTU (from in promptu, on the spur of the moment)

JACQUES INAUDI (1867- )

INCENDIARISM (Lat. incendere, to set on fire, burn)

INCEST (Lat. incestus, unchaste)

INCH (O. Eng. ynce from Lat. uncia, a twelfthpart; cf. " ounce," and see As)

MRS ELIZABETH INCHBALD (1753-1821)

MURROUGH INCHIQUIN

CHARLES BENJAMIN INCLEDON (1763–1826)

INCLINOMETER (Dip CIRCLE)

INCLOSURE, or ENCLOSURE

INCORPORATION (from Lat. incorporare, to form into a body)

INCUBUS (a Late Latin form of the classical incubo, a night-mare, from incubare, to lie upon, weigh down, brood)

INCUMBENT (from Lat. incumbere, to lean, lie upon)

INDAZOLES (BENZOPYRAZOLES)

INDEMNITY (through Fr. indemnite, Lat. indemnis, free from damage or loss; in-, negative, and damnum, loss)

INDENTURE (through 0. Fr. endenture from a legal Latin term indent-ura, indentare, to cut into teeth, to give a jagged edge, in modurn dentium, like teeth)

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM

INDIAN ARCHITECTURE

THE INDIAN MUTINY

NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS

INDICATOR (from Lat. indicare, to point out)

INDICTMENT (from Anglo-Fr. enditernent, enditer, to charge; Lat. in, against, dictare, declare)

INDIGO (earlier indico, from Lat. indicum, the Indian sub-stance or dye; the Sans. name was niti, from nila, dark blue, and this through Arab. al-nil, annil, gives " aniline ")

INDIUM (symbol In, atomic weight 114.8)

INDIVIDUALISM (from Lat. individualis, that which is not divided, an individual)

INDORE RESIDENCY

INDORSEMENT, or ENDORSEMENT (from Med. Lat. indorsare, to write upon the dorsum, or back)

INDUCTION (from Lat. inducere, to lead into; cf. Gr. ilrayu yli)

INDULGENCE (Lat. indulgentia, indulgere, to grant, concede)

INDULT (Lat. indullum, from indulgere, grant, concede, allow)

INDUSTRIA (mod. Monteu da Po)

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

LAW OF INEBRIETY

INFALLIBILITY (Fr. infaillibilite and infallibilite, the latter now obsolete, Med. Lat. infallibilitas, infallibilis, formed from faller, to make a mistake)

INFAMY (Lat. infamia)

INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr. enfant, from Lat. infans, in, not, and fans, the present participle of fari, to speak)

INFANTE (Spanish and Portuguese form of Lat. infans, young child)

INFANTRY TACTICS SINCE

INFERIOR CONSTRICTOR

INFINITE (from Lat. in, not, finis, end or limit; cf. findere, to deave)

INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS

INFLEXION (from Lat. inflectere, to bend)

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

INFLUENCES WORKING FOR EVIL UPON THE

INFLUENZA (syn. " grip," la grippe)

INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

INGELHEIM (Ober-Ingelheim and Nieder-Ingelheim)

JEAN INGELOW (1820—1897)

BERNHARD SEVERIN INGEMANN (1789—1862)

ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833—1899)

CHARLES CROMWELL INGHAM (1796—1863)

CLEMENT MANSFIELD INGLEBY (1823—1886)

SIR EDWARD AUGUSTUS INGLEFIELD (182o—1894)

SIR JOHN EARDLEY WILMOT INGLIS (1814-1862)

SIR WILLIAM INGLIS (1764-1835)

JAMES INGRAM (1774-1850)

JOHN KELLS INGRAM (1823-1907)

JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES (178o-1867)

INGRESS (Lat. ingresses, going in)

INHIBITION (from Lat. inhibere, to restrain, prevent)

INITIALS (Lat. initialis, of or belonging to a beginning, initium)

INITIATION (Lat. inilium, beginning, entrance, from mire, to go in)

INJECTOR (from Lat. injicere, to throw in)

INJUNCTION (from Lat. injungere, to fasten, or attach to, to lay a burden or charge on, to enjoin)

INK (from Late Lat. encaustum, Gr. gysavorov, the purple ink used by Greek and Roman emperors, from iyKaiew, to burn in)

BATTLE OF INKERMAN

HENRY INMAN (1801-1846)

GEORGE INNESS (1825-1894)

INNOCENT (INNOCENTIUS)

INNOCENT (POPES)

INNUENDO (Latin for " by nodding," from innuere, to indicate by nodding)

MARQUESS KAORU INOUYE (1835– )

INQUEST (O. Fr. enqueste, modern enqueete, from Lat.inquisitum, inquirere, to inquire)

THE INQUISITION (Lat. inquisitio, an inquiry)

INSANITY (from Lat. in, not, and sanus, sound)

INSANITY ASSOCIATED WITH EPILEPSY

INSANITY ASSOCIATED WITH OR CAUSED BY ALCOHOLIC

INSANITY FOLLOWING UPON INJURIES TO THE BRAIN

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS

INSPIRATION (Lat. inspirare, breathe upon or into)

INSTALMENT (for earlier stallment or estallment, from Fr. estaler, to fix, arrange; the change is probably due to the influence of the verb " install ")

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH

INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT

INSTRUMENTATION

INSUBRES ("Ivoµ(3pes, "Ivvouf pot)

INTAGLIO (an Ital. word, from intagliare, to incise, cut into)

INTELLECT (Lat. intellectus, from intelligere, to understand)

INTELLIGENCE IN ANIMALS

INTENDANT (from Lat. intendens, pres. part. of intendere, to apply the mind to, to watch over; cf. " superintendent ")

INTENT (from Lat. intend ere, to stretch out, extend, particularly in the phrase intendere animum, to turn one's mind to, purpose)

INTERAMNA LIRENAS

INTERCALARY (from Lat. intercalare, to proclaim, calare, the insertion of a day in the calendar)

INTERCOLUMNIATION

INTERDICT (Lat. interdictum, from interdicere, to forbid by decree, lit., interpose by speech)

INTERESSE TERMINI (Lat. for " interest in a term ")

INTERFERENCE OF LIGHT

INTERLACED ARCHES

INTERNATIONA1 LAW

INTERNATIONAL LAW (PRIVATE)

THE INTERNATIONAL

INTERPELLATION (from Lat. interpellare, to interrupt)

INTERPOLATION (from Lat. interpolare, to alter, or insert something fresh, connected with pollee, a polish)

INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

INTERREGNUM (Lat. inter, between, and regnum, reign)

INTERSTATE COMMERCE

INTESTACY (Lat. intestates, one who has not made a will, from testari, to, bear witness)

INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION (Ilius)

INTESTINE (Lat. intestinus, internal, usually in neuter plural intestina. from intus, within)

INTOXICATION (Lat. toxicare, intoxicare, to smear with poison, toxicum, an adaptation of Gr. 'r(*uK v, sc. ¢apµasov, a poison smeared on arrows; roEov, bow)

INTRADOS (a French term, Lat. infra, within, Fr. dos, back)

INTRANSIGENT (adopted from the Fr. intransigeant, taken, through the Spanish intransigente, from the Lat. in, not, and iransigere, to come to an understanding)

INTRINSIC (through Fr. intrinsique, from Lat. intrinsecus, inwardly; inter, within, secus, following, from root of sequi, to follow)

INTROSPECTION (from Lat. introspicere, to look within)

INTUITION (from Lat. intueri, to look at)

INULIN (C6H10O5)x, in chemistry, a starch-like carbohydrate, known also as alantin, menyanthin, dahlin, synanthrin and sinistrin. It occurs in many plants of the large genus Composilae, to which the elicampane (Lat. inula)

INVARIABLE PLANE

INVENTORY (post-class. Lat. inventarium, a list or repertory, from invenire to find)