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Inʹfamous

means not allowed to speak or give witness in a court of justice. (Latin, in, negative fari, to speak; Greek, phēmi or phāmi.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Indian Summer (The)
Indians
Indiarubber
Individualists
Indoors
Induction (Latin, the act of leading in)
Indulgence
Inertia
Inexorable Logic of Facts (The)
Infallibility (of the Church of Rome)
Infamous
Infant
Infant of Lubeck
Infanta
Infante
Infantry
Infernal Column
Inferno
Infra Dig., i.e. Dignitatem
Infralapsarians
Ingle (The)