inordinate 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, fornication, or buggery, getting bailiffs; all which are punished by statute. See Hen. VIII. cap. 6. 13 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. It is most frequently applied to an involuntary discharge of urine. See MEDICINE INDEX.