INCLINING • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Inclining

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

verb

Incline v. t.

1.

To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right. "Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear."

2.

To impart a tendency or propensity to, as to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose; to influence. "Incline my heart unto thy testimonies." "Incline our hearts to keep this law."

3.

To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility. "With due respect my body I inclined."

Incline v. i. (past & past part. inclined; pres. part. inclining)

1.

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.

2.

Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed. "Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech." "Power finds its balance, giddy motions cease In both the scales, and each inclines to peace."

3.

To bow; to incline the head.

Synonyms: To lean; slope; slant; tend; bend.

adjective

Inclining adj. (Bot.) Same as Inclined, 3.

noun

Inclining n.

1.

Inclination; disposition. "On the first inclining towards sleep."

2.

Party or side chosen; a following. "Both you of my inclining, and the rest."

See images of 'Inclining'

Etymology of 'Inclining'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Inclining" Quotes from Famous Books

... Marcolf, St Brandan, &c., are often classed, but somewhat wrongly, as they belong to a different school. Properly of the group are Koenig Rother, Herzog Ernst, and Orendel. All these suggest distinct imitation of the chansons, Orendel inclining rather to the legendary and travelling kind of Jourdains de Blaivies or Huon, Herzog Ernst to the more feudal variety. Koenig Rother,[112] the most important of the batch, is a poem of a little more than ...

— The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory - (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) • George Saintsbury

... O Bacchus!' said Glaucus, inclining reverentially to a beautiful image of the god placed in the centre of the table, at the corners of which stood the Lares and the salt-holders. The guests followed the prayer, and then, sprinkling the wine on the table, ...

— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

... are living a life that in its broad features cannot be wholly unlike the life of the men of long ago. Thus the pre-historian should study Spencer and Gillen on the natives of Central Australia, if only that he may take firm hold of the fact that people with skulls inclining towards the Neanderthal type, and using stone knives, may nevertheless have very active minds; in short, that a rich enough life in its way may leave behind it a poor rubbish-heap. When it comes, however, to the borrowing of details, ...

— Anthropology • Robert Marett

... clearness; but that which maketh them so much esteemed is the variety of colors, for in these stones a man shall perceive certain veins or spots, which, as they be turned about, resemble divers colors, inclining partly to purple and partly to white: he shall see them also of a third color composed of them both, resembling the flame of fire. Thus they pass from one to another as a man holdeth them, insomuch as their ...

— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

... thought fit to issue through butler and housekeeper down to the lower household, for the preservation of his son from any visible symptom of the passion. A footman and two housemaids are believed to have been dismissed on the report of heavy Benson that they were in or inclining to the state; upon which an undercook and a dairymaid voluntarily threw up their places, averring that "they did not want no young men, but to have their sex spied after by an old wretch like that," indicating the ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com