| impostume | n. | purulent swelling, abscess; moral festering sore | ||
| imprecation | n. | act of cursing or invoking evil upon | ||
| imprescripible | adj. | absolute, incapable of being taken away by law | ||
| imprest | n. | advanced monies; regularly replenished fund of money for small expenses | ||
| impropriate | v. | to transfer Church property to a layperson; to take or claim for private use | ||
| impudically | adv. | immodestly | ||
| impudicity | n. | shamelessness, reckless lack of modesty | ||
| in good nick | adj. | in good condition | ||
| in pectore | adj. | “in the breast” or “in the heart”, term used by Catholic Church to denote secret actions | Latin | |
| in pig | adj. | (of a sow) pregnant | idiom | |
| in posse | adv. | potentially (as contrasted with actually) | Latin | |
| in statu nascendi | adj. | not yet fully formed, nascent | Latin | |
| inadvertent | adj. | unintentional; heedless | ||
| inamorata | n. | female lover | ||
| inapprehension | n. | lack of apprehension, want of grasping or perception; absence of anticipation | ||
| inapt | adj. | inappropriate, not suitable; incapable, unskillful | ||
| inbred | adj. | resulting from inbreeding | ||
| inchmeal | adv. | extremely slowly, by inches, little by little | ||
| inchoate | adj. | incipient, not yet fully formed, unordered | ||
| incomer | n. | person moving into a tight-knit community from outside that group or location | ||
| incommensurable | adj. | without a common standard of comparison, having no shared basis of measure; entirely disproportionate | ||
| inconscient | adj. | unconscious | ||
| incontinent | adj. | unable to control bladder or bowels; having no or little moral or sexual restraint | ||
| incorporeity | n. | quality of being incorporeal, lack of material existence | ||
| incumbent | adj. | being the current officeholder; obligatory, required | ||
| incurrent | adj. | moving into the interior, relating to an inward current | ||
| indefeasible | adj. | not liable to be annulled or voided, not forfeitable | ||
| indefectible | adj. | perfect; resisting decay, permanent | ||
| indicium | n. | sign, token; mail marking used in place of stamps or cancellation (usu. plural) | ||
| indiction | n. | fifteen year time period used in Roman Empire from time of Constantine into the Middle Ages; also denotes particular year within an indiction, e.g. “twelfth indiction” meaning twelfth year of (a given) indiction | ||
| indolent | adj. | slothful, averse to exertion or work | ||
| indurate | v. | to harden; to make callous; to inure | ||
| ineffable | adj. | unutterable, unspeakable; of that which must not be spoken | ||
| ineluctable | adj. | inescapable | ||
| inenarrable | adj. | inexpressible, unable to be described, not narratable | ||
| infandous | adj. | of that which should not be told; odious in the extreme, horrid | ||
| inflorescence | n. | arrangement of flowers upon a plant; blossoming, process of flowering | ||
| infra dig | adj. | (abbrev. of infra dignitatem) beneath one’s dignity, unbecoming | Latin | |
| infralapsarian | adj. | of the Calvinist doctrine that God’s election of some to eternal life followed His foreknowledge of the Fall of Man | ||
| ingle | n. | fireplace | obsolete | |
| inglenook | n. | corner or nook by a fireplace | ||
| ingrained | adj. | deep-rooted | ||
| inherent vice | n. | tendency of an item to degrade due to poor manufacturing or materials used or other factors | law | |
| iniquitous | adj. | nefarious; flagrantly unfair | ||
| innate | adj. | part of the essential character of something, rather than learned | ||
| inquisiturient | adj. | inquisitorial, prone to inquisition | ||
| insecution | n. | close pursuit | obsolete | |
| inselberg | n. | monadnock, hill remaining on peneplain created by erosion | ||
| insidious | adj. | secretly sinister | ||
| insolation | n. | exposure to solar rays |
