1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More.
2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; — used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude. The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. Their sober zeal, integrity. and worth. Cowper.
3. Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity. Language continued long in its purity and integrity. Sir M. Hale.
Syn.
— Honesty; uprightness; rectitude. See Probity.
INTEGROPALLIAL
In`te*gro*pal"li*al, a. Etym: [L. integer whole + E. pallial.]
(Zoöl.)
Defn: Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells.
INTEGUMATION
In*teg`u*ma"tion, n. Etym: [See Integument.]
Defn: That part of physiology which treats of the integuments of animals and plants.
INTEGUMENT In*teg"u*ment, n. Etym: [L. integumentum, fr. integere to cover; pref. in- in, on + tegere to cover: cf. F. intégument. See 1st n-, and Tegument.]
Defn: That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular.