King James Bible Dictionary

IN'TO, preposition [in and to.] Noting entrance or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts. It follows verbs expressing motion. Come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another. Water enters into the fine vessels of plants.

1. Noting penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to it. Look into a letter or book; look into an apartment.

2. Noting insertion. Infuse more spirit or animation into the composition.

3. Noting mixture. Put other ingredients into the compound.

4. Noting inclusion. Put these ideas into other words.

5. Noting the passing of a thing from one form or state to another. Compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor. Men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance. We reduce many distinct substances into one mass. We are led by evidence into belief of truth. Men are often enticed into the commission of crimes. Children are sometimes frightened into fits, and we are all liable to be seduced into error and folly.

INTOL'ERABLE, adjective [Latin intolerabilis; in and tolerabilis, tolero, to bear.]

1. Not to be borne; that cannot be endured; as intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden.

2. Insufferable; as intolerable laziness.

INTOL'ERABLENESS, noun The quality of being not tolerable or sufferable.

INTOL'ERABLY, adverb To a degree beyond endurance; as intolerably cold; intolerably abusive.

INTOL'ERANCE, noun [from intolerant.] Want of toleration; the not enduring at all or not suffering to exist without persecution; as the intolerance of a prince or a church towards a religious sect.

Exemplified by:

Cain
Genesis 4:8

Joshua
Numbers 11:24-28

James and John
Mark 9:38-39; Luke 9:49
Jesus, The Christ, History of

Persecuting the disciples
Acts 4:1-3; Acts 4:15-21; Acts 17:13

Persecuting Stephen
Acts 6:9-15; Acts 7:57-59; Acts 8:1-3

Persecuting Paul
Acts 13:50; Acts 17:5; Acts 18:13; Acts 21:28-31; Acts 22:22-23; Acts 23:2

Of idolatrous religions

Taught by Moses
Exodus 22:20; Exodus 5:13; Deuteronomy 17:1-7

Exemplified by:

Elijah
1 Kings 18:40

Jehu
2 Kings 10:18-31

By the Jews, at the time of the religious revival under the leadership of Azariah
2 Chronicles 15:12-13
Persecution

INTOL'ERANT, adjective [Latin in and tolero, to endure.]

1. Not enduring; not able to endure.

The powers of the human body being limited and intolerant of excesses.

2. Not enduring difference of opinion or worship; refusing to tolerate others in the enjoyment of their opinions, rights and worship.

INTOL'ERANT, noun One who does not favor toleration.

INTOL'ERATED, adjective Not endured; not tolerated.

INTOLERA'TION, noun Intolerance; refusal to tolerate others in their opinions or worship.

INTOMB, verb transitive intoom'. [in and tomb.] To deposit in a tomb; to bury.

INTOMBED, participle passive intoom'ed. Deposited in a tomb; buried.

INTOMBING, participle present tense intoom'ing. Depositing in a tomb; interring.

IN'TONATE, verb intransitive [Latin intono, intonatus; in and tono, to sound or thunder.]

1. To sound; to sound the notes of the musical scale.

2. To thunder.

INTONA'TION, noun In music, the action of sounding the notes of the scale with the voice, or any other given order of musical tones.

1. The manner of sounding or tuning the notes of a musical scale.

2. In speaking, the modulation of the voice in expression.

INTO'NE, verb intransitive [Latin intono, supra.] To utter a sound, or a deep protracted sound.

Ass intones to ass.

INTOR'SION, noun [Latin intorqueo, intorsum, to twist.]

A winding, bending or twisting. In botany, the bending or twining of any part of a plant towards one side or the other, or in any direction from the vertical.

INTORT', verb transitive [Latin intortus, from intorqueo, to twist.]

To twist; to wreath; to wind; to wring.

INTORT'ED, participle passive Twisted; made winding.

INTORT'ING, participle present tense Winding; twisting.

See Wine
Wine

INTOX'ICATE, verb transitive [in and Latin toxicum, which, Pliny informs us, is from taxa, a species of tree.]

1. To inebriate; to make drunk; as with spirituous liquor.

As with new wine intoxicated both,

They swim in mirth--

2. To excite the spirits to a kind of delirium; to elate to enthusiasm, frenzy or madness. Success may sometimes intoxicate a man of sobriety. An enthusiast may be intoxicated and zeal.

INTOX'ICATE, adjective Inebriated.

INTOX'ICATED, participle passive Inebriated; made drunk; excited to frenzy.

INTOX'ICATING, participle present tense Inebriating; elating to excess or frenzy.

1. Having qualities that produce inebriation; as intoxicating liquors.

See Drunkenness; Abstinence
Drunkenness; Abstinence, Total

INTOXICA'TION, noun Inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of making drunk.