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

in the eye of the law, is of divers kinds; as in cases of bigamy, rapes, sodomy, or buggery, getting bastards; 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. It is most frequently applied to an involuntary discharge of urine. See MEDICINE Index.