Infanticide - INFANT'ICIDE, n. [Low L. infanticidium; infans, an infant, and coedo, to kill.]
1. The intentional killing of an infant.
2. The slaughter of infants by Herod. Mat 2.
3. A slayer of infants.
Inherit - INHER'IT, v.t. [L. hoeres, an heir. See Heir.]
1. To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by succession, as the representative of the former possessor; to receive, as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease. The heir inherits the lands or real estate of his father; the eldest son of the nobleman inherits his father's title, and the eldest son of a king inherits the crown.
2. To receive by nature from a progenitor. The son inherits the virtues of his father; the daughter inherits the temper of her mother, and children often inherit the constitutional infirmities of their parents.
3. To possess; to enjoy; to take as a possession, by gift or divine appropriation; as, to inherit everlasting life; to inherit the promises.
--That thou mayest live, and inherit the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. Deu 16.
The meek shall inherit the earth. Mat 5.
INHER'IT, v.i. To take or have possession or property.
--Thou shall not inherit in our father's house.
Judg 11.
Instruct - INSTRUCT', v.t. [L. instruo, instructum; in and struo, to set or to put on, to furnish. The L. struo is contracted from struco or strugo. See Destroy.]
1. To teach; to inform the mind; to educate; to impart knowledge to one who was destitute of it. The first duty of parents is to instruct their children in the principles of religion and morality.
2. To direct; to enjoin; to persuade or admonish.
She being before instructed by her mother, said, give me here the head of John the Baptist in a charger. Mat 14.
3. To direct or command; to furnish with orders. The president instructed his envoy to insist on the restitution of the property.
4. To inform; to advise or give notice to. On this question the court is not instructed.
5. To model; to form; to prepare. [Not used.]
Interpret - INTER'PRET, v.t. [L. interpretor, from interpres.]
1. To explain the meaning or words to a person who does not understand them; to expound; to translate unintelligible words into intelligible ones; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman.
--Immanuel, which being interpreted, signified, God with us. Mat 1.
2. To explain or unfold the meaning of predictions, vision, dreams or enigmas; to expound and lay open what is concealed from the understanding; as, Joseph interpreted the dream of Pharaoh.
3. To decipher.
4. To explain something not understood; as, to interpret looks or signs.
5. To define; to explain words by other words in the same language.
Issue - ISSUE, n. ish'u.
1. The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out of any inclosed place; egress; applied to water or other fluid, to smoke, to a body of men, &c. We say, an issue of water from a pipe, from a spring, or from a river; an issue of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows; an issue of people from a door or house.
2. A sending out; as the issue of an order from a commanding officer or from a court; the issue of money from a treasury.
3. Event; consequence; end or ultimate result. Our present condition will be best for us in the issue.
4. Passage out; outlet.
To God the Lord belong the issues from death. Psa 68.
5. Progeny; a child or children; offspring; as, he had issue,a son; and we speak of issue of the whole blood or half blood. A man dies without issue.
6. Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements or other property. A conveyed to B all his right to a term for years, with all the issues, rents and profits.
7. In surgery, a fontanel; a little ulcer made in some part of an animal body, to promote discharges.
8. Evacuation; discharge; a flux or running. Lev 12. Mat 9.
9. In law, the close or result of pleadings; the point of matter depending in suit, on which the parties join, and put the case to trial by a jury.
10. A giving out from a repository; delivery; as an issue of rations or provisions from a store, or of powder from a magazine.
IS'SUE, v.i.
1. To pass or flow out; to run out of any inclosed place; to proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; blood issues from wounds; sap or gum issues from trees; light issues from the sun.
2. To go out; to rush out. Troops issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
3. To proceed, as progeny; to spring.
Of thy sons that shall issue from thee--2 Ki 20.
4. To proceed; to be produced; to arise; to grow or accrue; as rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.
5. In legal pleadings, to come to a point in fact of law, on which the parties join and rest the decision of the cause. Our lawyers say, a cause issues to the court or to the jury; it issues in demurrer.
6. To close; to end. We know not how the cause will issue.
IS'SUE, v.t. To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue money from a treasury, or notes from a bank.
1. To send out; to deliver from authority; as, to issue an order from the department of war; to issue a writ or precept.
2. To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions from a store.