inordinacy of the sexual appetite; lust. It is the opposite of chastity. See **CHASTITY** and **CONTINENCE**.

in the eye of law, is of divers kinds; as in cases of bigamy, rapes, sodomy, or buggery, getting bailiffs; all which are punished by statute. See 25 Hen. VIII. cap. 6. 18 Eliz. cap. 7. 1 Jac. I. cap. 11. Incontinency of priests is punishable by the ordinary, by imprisonment, &c. 1 Hen. VII. cap. 4.

in medicine, signifies an inability in any of the organs to retain what should not be discharged without the concurrence of the will. But incontinence is most frequently used with regard to an involuntary discharge of urine otherwise called **diabetes**. See **MEDICINE-INDEX**.