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Immorality

IMMORAL'ITY, noun Any act or practice which contravenes the divine commands or the social duties. Injustice, dishonesty, fraud, slander, profaneness, gaming, intemperance, lewdness, are immoralities. All crimes are immoralities; but crime expresses more than immorality

Immorally

IMMOR'ALLY, adverb Wickedly; viciously; in violation of law or duty.

Immorigerous

IMMORIG'EROUS, adjective [Low Latin immoriger.] Rude; uncivil.

Immorigerousness

IMMORIG'EROUSNESS, noun Rudeness; disobedience.

Immortal

IMMOR'TAL, adjective [Latin immortalis. See Mortal.]

1. Having no principle of alteration or corruption; exempt from death; having life or being that shall never end; as an immortal soul.

To the King eternal, immortal invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever. 1 Timothy 1:17.

2. Never ending; everlasting; continual.

I have

Immortal longings in me.

3. Perpetual; having unlimited existence.

A corporation is called an immortal being.

4. Destined to live in all the ages of this world; imperishable; as immortal fame.

So Homer is called the immortal bard.

Immortality

IMMORTAL'ITY, noun The quality of never ceasing to live or exist; exemption from death and annihilation; life destined to endure without end; as the immortality of the human soul.

--Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 2 Timothy 1:10.

1. Exemption from oblivion.

2. Perpetuity; existence not limited; as the immortality of a corporation.

Immortalization

IMMORTALIZA'TION, noun The act of immortalizing.

Immortalize

IMMOR'TALIZE, verb transitive

1. To render immortal; to make perpetual; to cause to live or exist while the world shall endure. The Iliad has immortalized the name of Homer.

Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his guilty name.

2. To exempt from oblivion; to make perpetual.

IMMOR'TALIZE, verb intransitive To become immortal. [Not in use.]

Immortalized

IMMOR'TALIZED, participle passive Rendered immortal or perpetual.

Immortalizing

IMMOR'TALIZING, participle present tense Making immortal or perpetual.

Immortally

IMMOR'TALLY, adverb With endless existence; with exemption from death.

Immortification

IMMORTIFICA'TION, noun [in and mortification.] Want of subjection of the passions.

Immovability

IMMOVABIL'ITY, noun Steadfastness that cannot be moved or shaken.

Immovable

IMMOV'ABLE, adjective [in and movable.] That cannot be moved from its place; as an immovable foundation.

1. Not to be moved from a purpose; steadfast; fixed; that cannot be induced to change or alter; as a man who remains immovable

2. That cannot be altered or shaken; unalterable; unchangeable; as an immovable purpose or resolution.

3. That cannot be affected or moved; not impressible; not susceptible of compassion or tender feelings; unfeeling.

4. Fixed; not liable to be removed; permanent in place; as immovable estate.

5. Not to be shaken or agitated.

Immovableness

IMMOV'ABLENESS, noun The quality of being immovable.

Immovably

IMMOV'ABLY, adverb In a manner not to be moved from its place or purpose; or in a manner not to be shaken; unalterably; unchangeably. immovably firm to their duty; immovably fixed or established.

Immund

IMMUND', adjective [Latin immundus.] Unclean.

Immundicity

IMMUNDIC'ITY, noun Uncleanness.

Immunity

IMMU'NITY, noun [Latin immuinitas, from immunis, free, exempt; in and munus, charge, office, duty.]

1. Freedom or exemption from obligation. To be exempted from observing the rites or duties of the church, is an immunity

2. Exemption from any charge, duty, office, tax or imposition; a particular privilege; as the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.

3. Freedom; as an immunity from error.

Immure

IMMU'RE, verb transitive [Latin in and murus, a wall.]

1. To inclose within walls; to shut up; to confine; as, to immure nuns in cloisters.

The student immures himself voluntarily.

2. To wall; to surround with walls.

Lysimachus immured it with a wall. [Not usual.]

3. To imprison.

IMMU'RE, noun A wall. [Not used.]

Immured

IMMU'RED, participle passive Confined within walls.

Immusical

IMMU'SICAL, adjective [in and musical.] Not musical; inharmonious; not accordant; harsh.

Immutability

IMMUTABIL'ITY, noun [Latin immutabilitas; in and mutabilis, mutable, from muto, to change.]

Unchangeableness; the quality that renders change or alteration impossible; invariableness. immutability is an attribute of God.

Immutable

IMMU'TABLE, adjective [Latin immutabilis; in and mutabilis.]invariable; unalterable; not capable or susceptible of change.

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation. Hebrews 6:18.

Immutableness

IMMU'TABLENESS, noun Unchangeableness; immutability.

Immutably

IMMU'TABLY, adverb Unchangeably; unalterably; invariably; in a manner that admits of no change.

Immutate

IMMU'TATE, adjective [Latin immutatus.] Unchanged.

Immutation

IMMUTA'TION, noun [Latin immutatio.] Change; alteration.

Imp

IMP, noun

1. A son; offspring; progeny.

The tender imp was weaned.

A lad of life, an imp of fame.

2. A subaltern or puny devil.

IMP, verb transitive

1. To graft.

2. To lengthen; to extend or enlarge by something inserted or added; a term originally used by falconers, who repair a hawk's wing by adding feathers.

IMP out our drooping country's broken wings.

--The false north displays

Her broken league to imp her serpent wings.

This verb is, I believe, used only in poetry.

Impacable

IMPA'CABLE, adjective [Latin in and paco, to appease.]

Not to be appeased or quieted.

Impact

IMPACT', verb transitive [Latin impactus, from impingo; in and pango, to drive.]

To drive close; to press or drive firmly together.

IM'PACT, noun Touch; impression.

Impacted

IMPACT'ED, participle passive Driven hard; made close by driving.

Impaint

IMPA'INT, verb transitive To paint; to adorn with colors.

Impair

IMPA'IR, verb transitive [Latin pejor.]

1. To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value or excellence. An estate is impaired by extravagance or neglect. The profligate impairs his estate and his reputation.

Imprudence impairs a man's usefulness.

2. To weaken; to enfeeble. The constitution is impaired by intemperance, by infirmity and by age. The force of evidence may be impaired by the suspicion of interest in the witness.

IMPA'IR, verb intransitive To be lessened or worn out. [Little used.]

IM'PAIR, adjective [Latin impar, unequal.] In crystallography, when a different number of faces is presented by the prism, and by each summit; but the three numbers follow no law of progression.

IMPA'IR

Impaired

IMPA'IRED, participle passive Diminished; injured; weakened.

Impairer

IMPA'IRER, noun He or that which impairs.

Impairing

IMPA'IRING, participle present tense Making worse; lessening; injuring; enfeebling.

Impairment

IMPA'IRMENT, noun Diminution; decrease; injury. [Not used.]

Impalatable

IMPAL'ATABLE, adjective Unpalatable. [Little used.]

Impale

IMPA'LE, verb transitive [Latin in and palus, a pole, a stake.]

1. To fix on a stake; to put to death by fixing on an upright sharp stake. [See Empale.]

2. To inclose with stakes, posts or palisades.

3. In heraldry, to join two coats of arms pale-wise.

Impallid

IMPAL'LID, verb transitive To make pallid or pale. [Not in use.]

Impalm

IMP'ALM, verb transitive imp'am. [Latin in and palma, the hand.]

To grasp; to take in the hand.

Impalpability

IMPALPABIL'ITY, noun The quality of not being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.

Impalpable

IMPAL'PABLE, adjective [Latin in and palpo, to feel. [See Palpable.]

Not to be felt; that cannot be perceived by the touch; as an impalpable powder, whose parts are so minute that they cannot be distinguished by the senses, particularly by feeling.

1. Not coarse or gross.

Impalsy

IMPAL'SY, verb transitive s as z. [in and palsy.] To strike with palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.

Impanate

IM'PANATE, adjective [Latin in and panis, bread.] Embodied in bread.

IM'PANATE, verb transitive To embody with bread.

Impanation

IMPANA'TION, noun The supposed substantial presence of the body and blood of Christ, with the substance of the bread and wine, after consecration, in the eucharist; a tenet of the Lutheran church; otherwise called consubstantiation.

Impannel

IMPAN'NEL, verb transitive [in and pannel.] To write or enter the names of a jury in a list or on a piece of parchment, called a pannel; to form, complete or enroll a list of jurors in a court of justice.

Impanneled

IMPAN'NELED, participle passive Having the names entered in a pannel; formed, as a jury.

Impanneling

IMPAN'NELING, participle present tense Writing the names of a pannel; forming, as a jury.

Imparadise

IMPAR'ADISE, verb transitive To put in a place of felicity; to make happy.

Imparadised

IMPAR'ADISED, participle passive Placed in a condition resembling that of paradise; made happy.

Imparadising

IMPAR'ADISING, participle present tense Making very happy.

Imparalleled

IMPAR'ALLELED, adjective Unparalleled. [Not used.]

Imparasyllabic

IMPARASYLLAB'IC, adjective [Latin in, par, and syllaba.]

Not consisting of an equal number of syllables. An imparasyllabic noun is one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.

Impardonable

IMP'ARDONABLE, adjective Unpardonable.

Imparity

IMPAR'ITY, noun [in and parity; Latin par, equal.]

1. Inequality; disproportion.

2. Oddness; indivisibility into equal parts.

3. Difference of degree, rank or excellence.

Impark

IMP'ARK, verb transitive [in and park.] To inclose for a park; to make a park by inclosure; to sever from a common.

Imparl

IMP'ARL, verb intransitive To hold mutual discourse; appropriately, in law, to have license to settle a lawsuit amicably; to have delay for mutual adjustment.

Imparlance

IMP'ARLANCE, noun Properly, leave for mutual discourse; appropriately, in law, the license or privilege of a defendant, granted on motion, to have delay of trial, to see if he can settle the matter amicably by talking with the plaintiff, and thus to determine what answer he shall make to the plaintiff's action. Hence,

1. The continuance of a cause till another day, or from day to day.

Imparsonee

IMPARSONEE', adjective A parson imparsonee is a parson presented, instituted and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession.

Impart

IMP'ART, verb transitive [Latin impertior; in and partio, to divide; from pars, a part.]

1. To give, grant or communicate; to bestow on another a share or portion of something; as, to impart a portion of provisions to the poor.

2. To grant; to give; to confer; as, to impart honor or favor.

3. To communicate the knowledge of something; to make known; to show by words or tokens.

Gentle lady,

When first I did impart my love to you--

Impartance

IMP'ARTANCE, noun Communication of a share; grant.

Impartation

IMPARTA'TION, noun The act of imparting or conferring. [Not much used.]

Imparted

IMP'ARTED, participle passive Communicated; granted; conferred.

Impartial

IMP'ARTIAL, adjective [in and partial, from part, Latin pars.]

1. Not partial; not biased in favor of one party more than another; indifferent; unprejudiced; disinterested; as an impartial judge or arbitrator.

2. Not favoring one party more than another; equitable; just; as an impartial judgment or decision; an impartial opinion.

Impartialist

IMP'ARTIALIST, noun One who is impartial. [Little used.]

Impartiality

IMPARTIAL'ITY, noun imparshal'ity. Indifference of opinion or judgment; freedom from bias in favor of one side or party more than another; disinterestedness.

Impartiality is indispensable to an upright judge.

1. Equitableness; justice; as the impartiality of a decision.

Impartially

IMP'ARTIALLY, adverb Without bias of judgment; without prejudice; without inclination to favor one party or side more than another; equitably; justly.

Impartibility

IMPARTIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of not being subject to partition.

1. The quality of being capable of being communicated.

Impartible

IMP'ARTIBLE, adjective

1. Not partible or subject to partition; as an impartible estate.

2. [from impart.] That may be imparted, conferred, bestowed or communicated.

Imparting

IMP'ARTING, participle present tense Communicating; granting; bestowing.

Impartment

IMP'ARTMENT, noun The act of imparting; the communication of knowledge; disclosure.

Impassable

IMP'ASSABLE, adjective [in and passable. See Pass.]

That cannot be passed; not admitting a passage; as an impassable road, mountain or gulf.

Impassableness

IMP'ASSABLENESS, noun The state of being impassable.

Impassably

IMP'ASSABLY, adverb In a manner or degree that prevents passing, or the power of passing.

Impassibility

IMPASSIBIL'ITY

IMPAS'SIBLE, adjective [Latin impassibilis, from passus, patior, to suffer.]

Incapable of pain, passion or suffering; that cannot be affected with pain or uneasiness. Whatever is destitute of sensation is impassible.

Though naked and impassible, depart.

Impassible

IMPAS'SIBLE, a. [L. impassibilis, from passus, patior, to suffer.]

Incapable of pain, passion or suffering; that cannot be affected with pain or uneasiness. Whatever is destitute of sensation is impassible. Though naked and impassible, depart.

Impassibleness

IMPAS'SIBLENESS, noun [from impassible.]

Exemption from pain or suffering; insusceptibility of injury from external things.

Impassion

IMPAS'SION, verb transitive [in and passion.] To move or affect strongly with passion.

Impassionate

IMPAS'SIONATE, verb transitive To affect powerfully.

IMPAS'SIONATE, adjective Strongly affected.

1. Without passion or feeling.

Impassioned

IMPAS'SIONED, adjective Actuated or agitated by passion.

The tempter all impassioned thus began.

1. Animated; excited; having the feelings warmed; as an impassioned orator.

2. Animated; expressive of passion or ardor; as an impassioned discourse.

Impassive

IMPAS'SIVE, adjective [Latin in and passus, patior, to suffer.]

Not susceptible of pain or suffering; as the impassive air; impassive ice.

Impassively

IMPAS'SIVELY, adverb Without sensibility to pain or suffering.

Impassiveness

IMPAS'SIVENESS, noun The state of being insusceptible of pain.

Impassivity

IMPASSIV'ITY, noun The quality of being insusceptible of feeling, pain or suffering.

Impastation

IMPASTA'TION, noun [in and paste.] The mixtion of various materials of different colors and consistences, baked or united by a cement, and hardened by the air or by fire.

Impaste

IMPA'STE, verb transitive

1. To knead; to make into paste.

2. In painting, to lay on colors thick and bold.

Impasted

IMPA'STED, adjective Concreted, as into paste.

1. Pasted over; covered with paste, or with thick paint.

Impatible

IMPAT'IBLE, adjective [Latin impatibilis.] Intolerable; that cannot be borne.

Impatience

IMPA'TIENCE, noun [Latin impatientia, from impatiens; in and patior, to suffer.] Uneasiness under pain or suffering; the not enduring pain with composure; restlessness occasioned by suffering positive evil, or the absence of expected good. impatience is not rage, nor absolute inability to bear pain; but it implies want of fortitude, or of its exercise. It usually springs from irritability of temper.

Impatient

IMPA'TIENT, adjective [Latin impatiens.] Uneasy or fretful under suffering; not bearing pain with composure; not enduring evil without fretfulness, uneasiness, and a desire or effort to get rid of the evil. Young men are impatient of restraint. We are all apt to be impatient under wrongs; but it is a christian duty not to be impatient in sickness, or under any afflictive dispensation of Providence.

1. Not suffering quietly; not enduring.

Fame, impatient of extremes, decays

Not more by envy than excess of praise.

2. Hasty; eager; not enduring delay. The impatient man will not wait for information; he often acts with precipitance. Be not impatient for the return of spring.

3. Not to be borne; as impatient smart.

This word is followed by of, at, for, or under. We are impatient of restraint, or of wrongs; impatient at the delay of expected good; impatient for the return of a friend, or for the arrival of the mail; impatient under evils of any kind. The proper use of these particles can be learnt only by practice or observation.

IMPA'TIENT, noun One who is restless under suffering.

Impatiently

IMPA'TIENTLY, adverb With uneasiness or restlessness; as, to bear disappointment impatiently

1. With eager desire causing uneasiness; as, to wait impatiently for the arrival of one's friend.

2. Passionately; ardently.

Impatronization

IMPATRONIZA'TION, noun Absolute seignory or possession.

Impatronize

IMPAT'RONIZE, verb transitive To gain to one's self the power of any seignory.

Impawn

IMPAWN', verb transitive [in and pawn.] To pawn; to pledge; to deposit as security.

Impeach

IMPE'ACH, verb transitive [Latin pango, pactus.]

1. To hinder; to impede. This sense is found in our early writers.

These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land.

A defluxion on my throat impeached my utterance.

[This application of the word is obsolete.]

2. To accuse; to charge with a crime or misdemeanor; but appropriately, to exhibit charges of maladministration against a public officer before a competent tribunal, that is, to send or put on, to load. The word is now restricted to accusations made by authority; as, to impeach a judge. [See Impeachment.]

3. To accuse; to censure; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.

4. To call to account; to charge as answerable.

IMPE'ACH, noun Hinderance.

Impeachable

IMPE'ACHABLE, adjective Liable to accusation; chargeable with a crime; accusable; censurable.

1. Liable to be called in question; accountable.

Owners of lands in fee simple are not impeachable for waste.

Impeached

IMPE'ACHED, participle passive Hindered.

1. Accused; charged with a crime, misdemeanor or wrong; censured.

The first donee in tail may commit waste, without being impeached

Impeacher

IMPE'ACHER, noun An accuser by authority; one who calls in question.

Impeaching

IMPE'ACHING, participle present tense Hindering.

1. Accusing by authority; calling in question the purity or rectitude of conduct or motives.

Impeachment

IMPE'ACHMENT, noun Hinderance; impediment; stop; obstruction.

1. An accusation or charge brought against a public officer for maladministration in his office. In Great Britain, it is the privilege or right of the house of commons to impeach, and the right of the house of lords to try and determine impeachments. In the U. States, it is the right of the house of representatives to impeach, and of the senate to try and determine impeachments. In Great Britain, the house of peers, and in the U. States, the senate of the U.States, and the senates in the several states, are the high courts of impeachment

2. The act of impeaching.

3. Censure; accusation; a calling in question the purity of motives or the rectitude of conduct, etc. This declaration is no impeachment of his motives or of his judgment.

4. The act of calling to account, as for waste.

5. The state of being liable to account, as for waste.

Impearl

IMPEARL, verb transitive imperl'. [in and pearl.] To form in the resemblance of pearls.

--Dew-drops which the sun

IMPEARLs on every leaf, and every flower.

1. To decorate with pearls, or with things resembling pearls.

The dews of the morning impearl every thorn.

Impeccability

IMPECCABIL'ITY

IMPEC'CABLE, adjective [Latin pecco, to err, to sin.] Not liable to sin; not subject to sin; exempt from the possibility of sinning. No mere man is impeccable.

Impeccable

IMPEC'CABLE, a. [L. pecco, to err, to sin.] Not liable to sin; not subject to sin; exempt from the possibility of sinning. No mere man is impeccable.

Impeccancy

IMPEC'CANCY, noun [See Impeccable.] The quality of not being liable to sin; exemption from sin, error or offense.

Impede

IMPE'DE, verb transitive [Latin impedio; supposed to be compounded of in and pedes, feet, to catch or entangle the feet.]

To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the progress of troops.

Impeded

IMPE'DED, participle passive Hindered; stopped; obstructed.

Impediment

IMPED'IMENT, noun [Latin impedimentum.] That which hinders progress or motion; hinderance; obstruction; obstacle; applicable to every subject, physical or moral. Bad roads are impediments in marching and travelling. Idleness and dissipation are impediments to improvement. The cares of life are impediments to the progress of vital religion.

1. That which prevents distinct articulation; as an impediment in speech.

IMPED'IMENT, verb transitive To impede. [Not in use.]

Impedimental

IMPEDIMENT'AL, adjective Hindering; obstructing.

Impeding

IMPE'DING, participle present tense Hindering; stopping; obstructing.

Impedite

IM'PEDITE, verb transitive To impede. [Not in use.]

Impeditive

IMPED'ITIVE, adjective Causing hinderance.

Impel

IMPEL', verb transitive [Latin impello; in and pello, to drive.]

To drive or urge forward; to press on; to excite to action or to move forward, by the application of physical force, or moral suasion or necessity. A ball is impelled by the force of powder; a ship is impelled by wind; a man may be impelled by hunger or a regard to his safety; motives of policy or of safety impel nations to confederate.

The surge impelled me on a craggy coast.

And several men impel to several ends.

Impelled

IMPEL'LED, participle passive Driven forward; urged on; moved by any force or power, physical or moral.

Impellent

IMPEL'LENT, noun A power or force that drives forward; impulsive power.

Impeller

IMPEL'LER, noun He or that which impels.

Impelling

IMPEL'LING, participle present tense Driving forward; urging; pressing.

Impen

IMPEN', verb transitive [in and pen.] To pen; to shut or inclose in a narrow place.

Impend

IMPEND', verb intransitive [Latin impendeo; in and pendeo, to hang.]

1. To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten. A dark cloud impends over the land.

Destruction sure o'er all your heads impends.

2. To be near; to be approaching and ready to fall on.

It expresses our deep sense of God; s impending wrath.

Nor bear advices of impending foes.

Impendence

IMPEND'ENCE

IMPEND'ENCY, noun The state of hanging over; near approach; a menacing attitude.

Impendency

IMPEND'ENCY, n. The state of hanging over; near approach; a menacing attitude.

Impendent

IMPEND'ENT, adjective Hanging over; imminent; threatening; pressing closely; as an impendent evil.

Impending

IMPEND'ING, participle present tense Hanging over; approaching near; threatening.

Impenetrability

IMPENETRABIL'ITY, noun [from impenetrable.]

1. The quality of being impenetrable.

2. In philosophy, that quality of matter which prevents two bodies from occupying the same space at the same time.

3. Insusceptibility of intellectual impression.

Impenetrable

IMPEN'ETRABLE, adjective [Latin impenetrabilis; in and penetrabilis, from penetro, to penetrate.]

1. That cannot be penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; as an impenetrable shield.

2. Not to be affected or moved; not admitting impressions on the mind. The hardened sinner remains impenetrable to the admonitions of the gospel.

3. Not to be entered by the sight; as impenetrable darkness. Hence,

4. Not to be entered and viewed by the eye of the intellect; as impenetrable obscurity or abstruseness.

Impenetrableness

IMPEN'ETRABLENESS, noun Impenetrability, which see.

Impenetrably

IMPEN'ETRABLY, adverb With solidity that admits not of being penetrated.

1. With hardness that admits not of impression; as impenetrably dull.

Impenitence

IMPEN'ITENCE

IMPEN'ITENCY, noun [Latin in and poenitens, from poeniteo, to repent, poena, pain.] Want of penitence or repentance; absence of contrition or sorrow for sin; obduracy; hardness of heart. Final impenitence dooms the sinner to inevitable punishment.

He will advance from one degree of impenitence to another.

Impenitency

IMPEN'ITENCY, n. [L. in and poenitens, from poeniteo, to repent, poena, pain.] Want of penitence or repentance; absence of contrition or sorrow for sin; obduracy; hardness of heart. Final impenitence dooms the sinner to inevitable punishment. He will advance from one degree of impenitence to another.

Impenitent

IMPEN'ITENT, adjective Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; obdurate; of a hard heart.

They died impenitent

IMPEN'ITENT, noun One who does not repent; a hardened sinner.

Impenitently

IMPEN'ITENTLY, adverb Without repentance or contrition for sin; obdurately.

Impennous

IMPEN'NOUS, adjective [in and pennous.] Wanting wings.

Impeople

IMPE'OPLE, verb transitive To form into a community. [See People.]

Imperate

IM'PERATE, adjective [Latin imperatus, impero, to command.]

Done by impulse or direction of the mind. [Not used.]

Imperative

IMPER'ATIVE, adjective [Latin imperativus, from impero, to command. See Empire.]

1. Commanding; expressive of command; containing positive command, as distinguished from advisory, or discretionary. The orders are imperative

2. In grammar, the imperative mode of a verb is that which expresses command, entreaty, advice or exhortation; as, go, write, attend.

Imperatively

IMPER'ATIVELY, adverb With command; authoritatively.

Imperatorial

IMPERATO'RIAL, adjective Commanding. [Not in use.]

Imperceptible

IMPERCEP'TIBLE, adjective

1. Not to be perceived; not to be known or discovered by the senses. We say a thing is imperceptible to the touch, to the eye or sight, to the ear, to the taste or smell. Hence,

2. Very small; fine; minute in dimensions; or very slow in motion or progress; as, the growth of a plant or animal is imperceptible; it is too slow to be perceived by the eye.

IMPERCEP'TIBLE, noun That which cannot be perceived by the senses on account of its smallness. [Little used.]

Imperceptibleness

IMPERCEP'TIBLENESS, noun The quality of being imperceptible.

Imperceptibly

IMPERCEP'TIBLY, adverb In a manner not to be perceived.

Impercipient

IMPERCIP'IENT, adjective Not perceiving or having power to perceive.

Imperdible

IMPER'DIBLE, adjective Not destructible. [Not a legitimate word.]

Imperfect

IMPER'FECT, adjective [Latin imperfectus; in and perfectus, finished, perfect; perficio, to perfect; per and facio, to make.]

1. Not finished; not complete. The work or design is imperfect

2. Defective; not entire, sound or whole; wanting a part; impaired. The writings of Livy are imperfect

3. Not perfect in intellect; liable to err; as, men are imperfect; our minds and understandings are imperfect

4. Not perfect in a moral view; not according to the laws of God, or the rules of right. Our services and obedience are imperfect

5. In grammar, the imperfect tense denotes an action in time past, then present, but not finished.

6. In music, incomplete; not having all the accessary sounds; as an imperfect chord.

An imperfect interval is one which does not contain its complement of simple sounds.

Imperfection

IMPERFEC'TION, noun [Latin imperfectio, supra.]

Defect; fault; the want of a part or of something necessary to complete a thing; equally applicable to physical or moral subjects. When fruit fails to come to maturity, and after it begins to decay, we denominate the defect, an imperfection Laws sometimes fail of the intended effect, either from their imperfection or from the imperfection of the administration. Men are all chargeable with imperfections, both in character and in conduct.

Imperfectly

IMPER'FECTLY, adverb In an imperfect manner or degree; not fully; not entirely; not completely; not in the best manner; not without fault or failure.

Imperfectness

IMPER'FECTNESS, noun The state of being imperfect.

Imperforate

IMPER'FORATE, adjective [Latin in and perforatus, perforo.]

Not perforated or pierced; having no opening.

Imperforated

IMPER'FORATED, adjective Not perforated.

1. Having no pores.

Imperforation

IMPERFORA'TION, noun The state of being not perforated, or without any aperture.

Imperforble

IMPER'FORBLE, adjective [infra.] That cannot be perforated or bored through.

Imperial

IMPE'RIAL, adjective [Latin imperialis, from impero, to command. See Emperor.]

1. Pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as an imperial government; an imperial diadem; imperial authority or edict; imperial power or sway.

2. Royal; belonging to a monarch; as an imperial palace; imperial arts.

3. Pertaining to royalty; denoting sovereignty.

4. Commanding; maintaining supremacy; as the imperial democracy of Athens.

Imperial chamber, the sovereign court of the German empire.

Imperial city, a city in Germany which has no head but the emperor.

Imperial diet, an assembly of all the states of the German empire.

Imperialist

IMPE'RIALIST, noun One who belongs to an emperor; a subject or soldier of an emperor. The denomination, imperialists, is often given to the troops or armies of the emperor of Austria.

Imperiality

IMPERIAL'ITY, noun Imperial power.

1. The right of an emperor to a share of the produce of mines, etc.

The late empress having by ukases of grace, relinquished her imperialities on the private mines, viz. the tenths of the copper, iron, silver and gold--

Imperially

IMPE'RIALLY, adverb In a royal manner.

Imperil

IMPER'IL, verb transitive [in and peril.] To bring into danger.

Imperious

IMPE'RIOUS, adjective [Latin imperiosus.]

1. Commanding; dictatorial; haughty; arrogant; overbearing; domineering; as an imperious tyrant; an imperious dictator; an imperious man; an imperious temper.

2. Commanding; indicating an imperious temper; authoritative; as imperious words.

3. Powerful; overbearing; not to be opposed by obstacles; as a man of a vast and imperious mind.

4. Commanding; urgent; pressing; as imperious love; imperious circumstances; imperious appetite.

5. Authoritative; commanding with rightful authority.

The commandment high and imperious in its claims.

Imperiously

IMPE'RIOUSLY, adverb With arrogance of command; with a haughty air of authority; in a domineering manner.

1. With urgency or force not to be opposed.

Imperiousness

IMPE'RIOUSNESS, noun Authority; air of command.

1. Arrogance of command; haughtiness.

Imperiousness and severity is an ill way of treating men who have reason to guide them.

Imperishable

IMPER'ISHABLE, adjective Not subject to decay; not liable to perish; indestructible; enduring permanently; as an imperishable monument; imperishable renown.

Elegant discourses on virtue--will not supply the consolations of imperishable hope.

Imperishableness

IMPER'ISHABLENESS, noun The quality of being imperishable.

Impermanence

IMPER'MANENCE, noun Want of permanence or continued duration.

Impermanent

IMPER'MANENT, adjective [in and permanent.] Not permanent; not enduring.

Impermeability

IMPERMEABIL'ITY, noun The quality of being impermeable by a fluid.

Impermeable

IMPER'MEABLE, adjective [Latin in and permeo; per and meo, to pass.]

Not to be passed through the pores by a fluid; as impermeable leather.

Impersonal

IMPER'SONAL, adjective [Latin impersonalis; in and personalis, from persona. See Person.]

In grammar, an impersonal verb is one which is not employed with the first and second persons, I and thou or you, we and ye, for nominatives, and which has no variation of ending to express them, but is used only with the termination of the third person singular, with it for a nominative in English, and without a nominative in Latin; as, it rains, it becomes us to be modest; Latin toedet; libet; pugnatur.

Impersonality

IMPERSONAL'ITY, noun Indistinction of personality.

Impersonally

IMPER'SONALLY, adverb In the manner of an impersonal verb.

Impersonate

IMPER'SONATE, verb transitive To personify.

Impersonated

IMPER'SONATED, adjective Made persons of. [See Personated.]

Imperspicuity

IMPERSPICU'ITY, noun Want of perspicuity, or clearness to the mind.

Imperspicuous

IMPERSPIC'UOUS, adjective [in and perspicuous.]

Not perspicuous; not clear; obscure.

Impersuasible

IMPERSUA'SIBLE, adjective [Latin in and persuasibilis. See Persuade.]

Not to be moved by persuasion; not yielding to arguments.

Impertinence

IMPER'TINENCE

IMPER'TINENCY, noun [Latin impertinens; in and pertinens, pertineo, to pertain; per and teneo, to hold.]

1. That which is not pertinent; that which does not belong to the subject in hand; that which is of no weight.

2. The state of not being pertinent.

3. Folly; rambling thought. [Little used.]

4. Rudeness; improper intrusion; interference by word or conduct which is not consistent with the age or station of the person. [This is the most usual sense.]

We should avoid the vexation and impertinence of pedants.

5. A trifle, a thing of little or no value.

There are many subtile impertinencies learnt in schools-

Impertinency

IMPER'TINENCY, n. [L. impertinens; in and pertinens, pertineo, to pertain; per and teneo, to hold.] 1. That which is not pertinent; that which does not belong to the subject in hand; that which is of no weight.2. The state of not being pertinent.3. Folly; rambling thought. [Little used.]4. Rudeness; improper intrusion; interference by word or conduct which is not consistent with the age or station of the person. [This is the most usual sense.] We should avoid the vexation and impertinence of pedants.5. A trifle, a thing of little or no value. There are many subtile impertinencies learnt in schools-

Impertinent

IMPER'TINENT, adjective [Latin impertinens, supra.]

1. Not pertaining to the matter in hand; of no weight; having no bearing on the subject; as an impertinent remark.

2. Rude; intrusive; meddling with that which does not belong to the person; as an impertinent coxcomb.

3. Trifling; foolish; negligent of the present purpose.

IMPER'TINENT, noun An intruder; a meddler; one who interferes in what does not belong to him.

Impertinently

IMPER'TINENTLY, adverb Without relation to the matter in hand.

1. Officiously; intrusively; rudely.

Impertransibility

IMPERTRANSIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of not being capable of being passed through.

Impertransible

IMPERTRAN'SIBLE, adjective [Latin in and pertranseo; per and transeo, to pass over or through; trans and eo, to go.]

Not to be passed through. [Little used.]

Imperturbable

IMPERTURB'ABLE, adjective [Latin in and perturbo, to disturb; per and turbo.]

That cannot be disturbed or agitated; permanently quiet.

Imperturbation

IMPERTURBA'TION, noun Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness.

Imperturbed

IMPERTURB'ED, adjective Undisturbed. [Not in use.]

Imperviosly

IMPER'VIOSLY, adverb In a manner to prevent passage or penetration.

Impervious

IMPER'VIOUS, adjective [Latin impervius; in and pervius, passable; per and via, way.]

1. Not to be penetrated or passed through; impenetrable; as an impervious gulf; an impervious forest.

2. Not penetrable; not to be pierced by a pointed instrument; as an impervious shield.

3. Not penetrable by light; not permeable to fluids. Glass is pervious to light, but impervious to water. Paper is impervious to light. In the latter sense only, impervious is synonymous with impermeable.

Imperviousness

IMPER'VIOUSNESS, noun The state of not admitting a passage.

Impetiginous

IMPETIG'INOUS, adjective [Latin impetigo, a ringworm.]

Resembling the ring-worm or tetters; covered with scaled or scabs; scurfy.

Impetrable

IM'PETRABLE, adjective [See Impetrate.] That may be obtained by petition.

Impetrate

IM'PETRATE, verb transitive [Latin impetro.] To obtain by request or entreaty.

Impetration

IMPETRA'TION, noun The act of obtaining by prayer or petition.

1. In law, the preobtaining of benefices from the church of Rome, which belonged to the disposal of the king and other lay patrons of the realm.

Impetrative

IM'PETRATIVE, adjective Obtaining; tending to obtain by entreaty.

Impetratory

IM'PETRATORY, adjective Beseeching; containing entreaty.

Impetuosity

IMPETUOS'ITY, noun [See Impetuous.] A rushing with violence and great force; fury; violence.

1. Vehemence; furiousness of temper.

Impetuous

IMPET'UOUS, adjective [Latin impetuosus, from impetus, impeto; in and peto, to urge, to rush. See Bid.]

1. Rushing with great force and violence; moving rapidly; furious; forcible; fierce; raging; as an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent.

2. Vehement of mind; fierce; hasty; passionate; violent; as a man of impetuous temper.

Impetuously

IMPET'UOUSLY, adverb Violently; fiercely; forcibly; with haste and force.

Impetuousness

IMPET'UOUSNESS, noun A driving or rushing with haste and violence; furiousness; fury; violence.

1. Vehemence of temper; violence.

Impetus

IM'PETUS, noun [Latin supra.] Force of motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled.

1. The force with which one body in motion strikes another.

Impictured

IMPIC'TURED, adjective Painted; impressed.

Impier

IMPIER. [See Umpire.]

Impierceable

IMPIERCEABLE, adjective impers'able. [in and pierce.]

Not to be pierced or penetrated.

Impiety

IMPI'ETY, noun [Latin impietas; in and pietas, pius.]

1. Ungodliness; irreverence towards the Supreme being; contempt of the divine character and authority; neglect of the divine precepts. These constitute different degrees of impiety

2. Any act of wickedness, as blasphemy and scoffing at the Supreme Being, or at his authority; profaneness. Any expression of contempt for God or his laws, constitutes an impiety of the highest degree of criminality. Disobedience to the divine commands or neglect of duty implies contempt for his authority, and is therefore impiety impiety when it expresses the temper or disposition, has no plural; but it is otherwise when it expresses an act of wickedness, for all such acts are impieties.

Impignorate

IMPIG'NORATE, verb transitive To pledge or pawn. [Not in use.]

Impignoration

IMPIGNORA'TION, noun The act of pawning. [Not in use.]

Impinge

IMPINGE, verb intransitive impinj'. [Latin impingo; in and pango, to strike. See Pack.] To fall against; to strike; to dash against; to clash upon.

The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies.

Impinging

IMPING'ING, participle present tense Striking against.

Impinguate

IMPIN'GUATE, verb transitive [Latin in and pinguis, fat.]

To fatten; to make fat. [Not in use.]

Impious

IM'PIOUS, adjective [Latin impius; in and pius, pious.]

1. Irreverent towards the Supreme Being; wanting in veneration for God and his authority; irreligious; profane. The scoffer at God and his authority is impious The profane swear is impious

When vice prevails and impious men bear sway,

The post of honor is a private station.

2. Irreverent towards God; proceeding from or manifesting a contempt for the Supreme Being; tending to dishonor God or his laws, and bring them into contempt; as an impious deed; impious language; impious writings.

Impiously

IM'PIOUSLY, adverb With irreverence for God, or contempt for his authority; profanely; wickedly.

Impiousness

IM'PIOUSNESS, noun Impiety; contempt of God and his laws.

Implacability

IMPLACABIL'ITY

IMPLA'CABLE, adjective [Latin implacabilis; in and placabilis, from placo, to appease.]

1. Not to be appeased; that can not be pacified and rendered peaceable; inexorable; stubborn or constant in enmity; as an implacable prince.

2. Not to be appeased or subdued; as implacable anger; implacable enmity, malice or revenge.

Implacable

IMPLA'CABLE, a. [L. implacabilis; in and placabilis, from placo, to appease.] 1. Not to be appeased; that can not be pacified and rendered peaceable; inexorable; stubborn or constant in enmity; as an implacable prince.2. Not to be appeased or subdued; as implacable anger; implacable enmity, malice or revenge.

Implacableness

IMPLACABLENESS, noun [from implacable.] The quality of not being appeasable; inexorableness; irreconcilable enmity or anger.

Implacably

IMPLA'CABLY, adverb With enmity not to be pacified or subdued; inexorably; as, to hate a person implacably

Implant

IMPLANT', verb transitive [in and plant, Latin planto.]

To set, plant or infix for the purpose of growth; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge in the minds of youth; to implant grace in the heart. [It is now seldom or never used in its literal sense for setting plants or seeds in the earth.]

Implantation

IMPLANTA'TION, noun The act of setting or infixing in the mind or heart, as principles or first rudiments.

Implanted

IMPLANT'ED, participle passive Set, infixed in the mind, as principles or rudiments.

Implanting

IMPLANT'ING, participle present tense Setting or infixing in the mind, as principles.

Implausibility

IMPLAUSIBIL'ITY, noun [from implausible.]

The quality of not being plausible or specious.

Implausible

IMPLAUS'IBLE, adjective s as z. [in and plausible.]

Not specious; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed; as an implausible harangue.

Implausibly

IMPLAUS'IBLY, adverb Without an appearance of probability.

Impleach

IMPLE'ACH, verb transitive [in and pleach.] To interweave. [Not in use.]

Implead

IMPLE'AD, verb transitive [in and plead.] To institute and prosecute a suit against one in court; to sue at law. The corporation shall have power to plead and be impleaded.

Let them implead one another. Acts 19:38.

Impleaded

IMPLE'ADED, participle passive Prosecuted; sued; subject to answer to a suit in court.

Impleader

IMPLE'ADER, noun One who prosecutes another.

Impleading

IMPLE'ADING, participle present tense Prosecuting a suit.

Impleasing

IMPLE'ASING, adjective Unpleasing. [Not in use.]

Impledge

IMPLEDGE, verb transitive To pawn. [Not used.]

Implement

IM'PLEMENT, noun [Low Latin implementum, from impleo, to fill; in and pleo.]may supply wants; particularly, as now used, tools, utensils, vessels, instruments; the tools or instruments of labor; the vessels used in a kitchen, etc.; as the implements of trade or of husbandry. [It is a word of very extensive signification.]

Impletion

IMPLE'TION, noun [Latin impleo, to fill; in and pleo.]

The act of filling; the state of being full.

The impletion is either in simple or compound flowers. The impletion of simple flowers, is by the increase either of the petals, or of the nectary.

Implex

IM'PLEX, adjective [Latin implexus. See Implicate.]

Infolded; intricate; entangled; complicated.

Every poem is simple or implex; it is called simple, when there is no change of fortune in it; implex when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad.

Implexion

IMPLEX'ION, noun [See Implicate.] The act of infolding or involving; the state of being involved; involution. [Little used.]

Implicate

IM'PLICATE, verb transitive [Latin implico, implicatus; in and plico, to fold.]

1. To infold; to involve; to entangle. [Seldom used in its literal sense.]

2. To involve; to bring into connection with; also, to show or prove to be connected or concerned; as, the evidence does not implicate the accused person in this conspiracy.