a. Situated within; that is the inner or inmost part; that is in or on the inside; belonging to or connected with the inside (esp. of the body): = inner adj. 1a, interior adj. 1, internal adj. 1.In Old English chiefly used of the interior or inner part of anything, like Latin interior domus the inner (part of the) house, intimum pectus, the inmost (part of the) breast.

†b. Said of the heart as a material organ possessing an interior part; and so, figuratively, of the heart, mind, soul, spirit, regarded as seats of feeling and thought. Obsolete.

†c. Of medicine: = internal adj. 1b. Obsolete.

d. Of the voice or a sound: Uttered without due opening of the mouth, so as not to be clearly heard; muffled, indistinct. (Cf. ‘to speak out’.) Also transferred of the utterer (quot. 1774).

e. Situated in, or belonging to, the interior of a country or region; inland: = interior adj. 1c.

†f. Music. Applied to parts intermediate between the highest and lowest of the harmony: = inner adj. 1d. Obsolete.

a. Applied to the mind, thoughts, and mental faculties as located within the body; hence to mental or spiritual conditions and actions, as distinguished from bodily or external phenomena, and so = mental or spiritual. Cf. inner adj. 2, interior adj. 3, internal adj. 2. inward man (archaic) the spiritual part of man, the spirit: = inner man at inner adj. 3.

†b. Conceived in or coming from one's inmost heart; deeply felt, heartfelt; hence, earnest, fervent.

c. Spiritually minded, devout, pious: = interior adj. 3c ? Obsolete.

a. Belonging to the inner circle of one's acquaintance or friends; closely associated or acquainted; intimate, familiar, confidential. Obsolete. (Common in 16th and 17th centuries.)

†b. Of a relation or feeling between two persons: Close, intimate. Obsolete.

†c. Of a bird or beast: Domesticated, tame.