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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."





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"Inclining" Quotes from Famous Books



... since they have come back from Europe, the last time, matters are pushed farther than ever. The ladies insist on kneeling at prayers, instead of inclining, like all the ...
— Autobiography of a Pocket-Hankerchief • James Fenimore Cooper
... the sloping high-cushioned seat, bracing her feet against the driving iron, while Mary, reaching up, tucked the dust-rug neatly about her skirts. Patch—whose looks and figure unmistakably declared his calling—short-legged and stocky, inclining to corpulence yet nimble on his feet, clean shaven, Napoleonic of countenance, passed reins and whip into her hands as Tolling, the groom, let go the ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet
... give the water a more sensible descent; we cut the bottom of a box into narrow planks; increased the channel from the walnut tree to our willow and laying a row flat at the bottom, set two others inclining towards each other, so as to form a triangular channel; we formed a kind of grating with small sticks at the end next the walnut tree, to prevent the earth and stones from stopping it up, and having ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau
... is out of true the punch marks can be corrected by inclining the punch, so that when it is struck it will move over the point in the direction of its true center. This may be followed up by centering the end of a round bar so as to make it true. This will be found to be a more ...
— Practical Mechanics for Boys • J. S. Zerbe
... me," writes Gray, it this time, to Dr. Wharton, "I admire nothing but Fingal; yet I remain still in doubt about the authenticity of these poems, though inclining rather to believe them genuine in spite of the worio. Whether they are the inventions of antiquity, or of a modern Scotchman, either case to me is alike unaccountable. Je m'y perds." Dr. Johnson, on the contrary, all along denied their ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole


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