Implicated – Improvidence

Implicated

IM'PLICATED, participle passive Infolded; involved.

1. Involved; connected; concerned; proved to be concerned or to have had a part.

Twenty persons are implicated in the plot.

Implicating

IM'PLICATING, participle present tense Involving; proving to be concerned.

Implication

IMPLICA'TION, noun [Latin implicatio, supra.]

1. The act of infolding or involving.

2. Involution; entanglement.

Three principal causes of firmness are, the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of the component parts.

3. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; a tacit inference, or something fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words.

The doctors are, by implication of a different opinion.

Implicative

IM'PLICATIVE, adjective Having implication.

Implicatively

IM'PLICATIVELY, adverb By implication.

Implicit

IMPLIC'IT, adjective [Latin implicitus, from implico, supra.]

1. Infolded; entangled; complicated.

In his woolly fleece

I cling implicit [Little used.]

2. Implied; tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; as an implicit contract or agreement.

3. Resting on another; trusting to the word or authority of another, without doubting or reserve, or without examining into the truth of the thing itself. Thus we give implicit credit or confidence to the declarations of a person of known veracity. We receive with implicit faith whatever God has clearly revealed.

Implicitly

IMPLIC'ITLY, adverb By inference deducible, but not expressed in words; virtually; in reality, but not in name.

He that denies the providence of God, implicitly denies his existence.

1. By connection with something else; dependently; with unreserved confidence; without doubting, or without examining evidence. We are disposed to believe implicitly what a man of veracity testifies.

Learn not to dispute the methods of his providence, but humbly and implicitly to acquiesce in and adore them.

Implicitness

IMPLIC'ITNESS, noun The state of being implicit; the state of trusting without reserve.

Implied

IMPLI'ED, participle passive [See Imply.] Involved; contained virtually, though not expressed; as an implied promise.

Impliedly

IMPLI'EDLY, adverb By implication.

Imploration

IMPLORA'TION, noun Earnest supplication.

Implore

IMPLO'RE, verb transitive [Latin imploro; in and ploro, to cry out.]

1. To call upon or for, in supplication; to beseech; to pray earnestly; to petition with urgency; to entreat; as, to implore the forgiveness of sins; to implore mercy.

Imploring all the gods that reign above.

2. To ask earnestly; to beg.

IMPLO'RE, verb intransitive To entreat; to beg.

IMPLO'RE, noun Earnest supplication. [Not used.]

Implored

IMPLO'RED, participle passive Earnestly supplicated; besought.

Implorer

IMPLO'RER, noun One who prays earnestly.

Imploring

IMPLO'RING, participle present tense Beseeching; entreating; praying earnestly.

Implumed

IMPLU'MED

IMPLU'MOUS, adjective Having no plumes or feathers.

Implumous

IMPLU'MOUS, a. Having no plumes or feathers.

Implunge

IMPLUNGE, verb transitive implunj'. To plunge; to immerse.

Imply

IMPLY', verb transitive [Latin implico; in and plico, to fold. See Implicate.]

1. Literally, to infold or involve; to wrap up.

2. To involve or contain in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not expressed in words.

Where a malicious act is proved, a malicious intention is implied.

When a man employs a laborer to work for him, or an agent to transact business for him, the act of hiring implies an obligation, and a promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward for his services. Contracts are express or implied; express contracts are those in which an agreement or promise is expressed by words or in writing; implied contracts are such as arise from the presumption of law, or the justice and reason of the transaction.

Implying

IMPLY'ING, participle present tense Involving; containing in substance, or by fair inference, or by construction of law.

Impocket

IMPOCK'ET, verb transitive To pocket. [Not used.]

Impoison

IMPOIS'ON, verb transitive s as z. [See Poison.]

1. To poison; to impregnate with poison; to corrupt with poison.

2. To embitter; to impair; as, grief impoisons the pleasures of life.

3. To kill with poison.

Impoisoned

IMPOIS'ONED, participle passive Poisoned; corrupted; embittered.

Impoisoning

IMPOIS'ONING, participle present tense Poisoning; corrupting; embittering.

Impoisonment

IMPOIS'ONMENT, noun The act of poisoning.

Impolarly

IM'POLARLY, adverb Not according to the direction of the poles. [Not used.]

Impolicy

IMPOL'ICY, noun [in and policy.] Inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bad policy; defect of wisdom; a word applied to private as well as public affairs.

Impolite

IMPOLI'TE, adjective [in and polite.] Not of polished manners; unpolite; uncivil; rude in manners.

Impolitely

IMPOLI'TELY, adverb Uncivilly.

Impoliteness

IMPOLI'TENESS, noun Incivility; want of good manners.

Impolitical

IMPOLIT'ICAL, for impolitic, is obsolete.

Impoliticly

IMPOL'ITICLY, adverb Not wisely; not with due forecast and prudence; in a manner to injure public or private interest.

Imponderability

IMPONDERABIL'ITY, noun Absolute levity; destitution of sensible weight.

Imponderable

IMPON'DERABLE

IMPON'DEROUS, adjective [in and ponderable, ponderous.]

Not having sensible weight.

Imponderous

IMPON'DEROUS, a. [in and ponderable, ponderous.]

Not having sensible weight.

Impoor

IMPOOR', verb transitive [in and poor.] To impoverish. [Not in use.]

Imporosity

IMPOROS'ITY, noun [in and porosity.] Want of porosity; closeness of texture; compactness that excludes pores.

Imporous

IMPO'ROUS, adjective Destitute of pores; very close or compact in texture; solid.

Import

IMPO'RT, verb transitive [Latin importo; in and porto, to bar. See Bear.]

1. To bring from a foreign country or jurisdiction, or from another state, into one's own country, jurisdiction or state; opposed to export. We import teas and silks from China, wines from Spain and France, and dry goods from Great Britain. Great Britain imports cotton from American and India. We may say also that Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine import flour from the middle states.

2. To bear or convey, as signification or meaning; to mean; to signify; to imply. We are to understand by a term, what it clearly imports.

3. To be of weight to; to be of moment or consequence to; to bear on the interest of, or to have a bearing on.

Her length of sickness, with what else more serious

Importeth thee to know, this bears.

If I endure it, what imports it you?

IM'PORT, noun That which is borne or conveyed in words; meaning; signification; the sense which words are intended to convey to the understanding, or which they bear in sound interpretation. import differs from implication in this, that the meaning of a term or number of words in connection is less obscurely expressed. import depends less on inference or deduction than implication, and is also applied more frequently to a single word. In all philosophical discussions, it is useful to ascertain the import of the terms employed. In the construction of laws and treaties, we are to examine carefully the import of words and phrases.

1. That which is imported or brought into a country from another country or state; generally in the plural. Our imports exceed our exports; the balance must be paid in specie; hence the scarcity of coin.

2. Importance; weight; consequence. [Formerly accented on the second syllable.]

Importable

IMPO'RTABLE, adjective That may be imported.

1. Insupportable; not to be endured.

Importance

IMPORT'ANCE, noun

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

Important

IMPORT'ANT, adjective Literally, bearing on or to. Hence, weighty; momentous; of great consequence; having a bearing on some interest, measure or result by which good or ill may be produced. Truth is important to happiness as well as to knowledge, but none so important as religious truth. The commerce of Great Britain is important to her navy, and her navy is important to her independence. Men often forget the important end for which they were created.

1. Bearing on; forcible; driving.

He fiercely at him flew,

And with important outrage him assailed.

2. Importunate. [Not used.]

Importantly

IMPORT'ANTLY, adverb Weightily; forcibly.

Importation

IMPORTA'TION, noun

1. The act or practice of importing, or of bringing from another country or state; opposed to exportation. Nations forbid the importation of commodities which are produced or manufactured in sufficient abundance at home.

2. The ware or commodities imported.

The importations, this season, exceed those of the last.

3. Conveyance.

Imported

IMPO'RTED, participle passive Brought from another country or state.

Importer

IMPO'RTER, noun He that imports; the merchant who, by himself or his agent, brings goods from another country or state.

Importing

IMPO'RTING, participle present tense Bringing into one's own country or state from a foreign or distant state.

1. Bearing, as a signification; meaning.

2. Having weight or consequence.

Importless

IMPO'RTLESS, adjective Of no weight or consequence. [Not used.]

Importunacy

IMPORT'UNACY, noun The act of importuning; importunateness.

Importunate

IMPORT'UNATE, adjective [Latin importunus. See Importune.]

1. Bearing on; pressing or urging in request or demand; urgent and pertinacious in solicitation; as an importunate suitor or petitioner.

2. Pressing; urgent; as an importunate demand.

3. Inciting urgently for gratification; as importunate passions and appetites.

Importunately

IMPORT'UNATELY, adverb With urgent request; with pressing solicitation.

Importunateness

IMPORT'UNATENESS, noun Urgent and pressing solicitation.

Importunator

IMPORT'UNATOR, noun One that importunes. [Not in use.]

Importune

IMPORTU'NE, verb transitive [Latin importunus; in and porto, to bear on.]

To request with urgency; to press with solicitation; to urge with frequent or unceasing application.

Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands.

IMPORTU'NE, adjective [Latin importunus. Formerly accented on the second syllable.]

1. Pressing in request; urgent; troublesome by frequent demands; vexatious; unreasonable.

2. Unseasonable.

[This word is obsolete; being superseded by importunate, unless perhaps in poetry.]

Importunely

IMPORTU'NELY, adverb With urgent solicitation; incessantly; continually; troublesomely.

1. Unseasonably; improperly.

Importunity

IMPORTU'NITY, noun [Latin importunitas.]

Pressing solicitation; urgent request; application for a claim or favor, which is urged with troublesome frequency or pertinacity. Men are sometimes overcome by the importunity of their wives or children.

Importuous

IMPO'RTUOUS, adjective [Latin importuosus; in and portus.]

Without a port, haven or harbor.

Imposable

IMPOSABLE, adjective That may be imposed or laid on.

Impose

IMPO'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin impositum, from impono; in and pono, to put. Pono, as written, belongs to Class Bn; and posui, positum, to Class Bs. or Bd. The latter coincide with Eng.put.]

1. To lay on; to set on; to lay on, as a burden, tax, toll, duty or penalty. The legislature imposes taxes for the support of government; toll is imposed on passengers to maintain roads, and penalties are imposed on those who violate the laws. God imposes no burdens on men which they are unable to bear.

On impious realms and barb'rous kings impose

Thy plagues--

2. To place over by authority or by force.

The Romans often imposed rapacious governors on their colonies and conquered countries.

3. To lay on, as a command; to enjoin, as a duty.

Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws.

Impose but your commands--

4. To fix on; to impute. [Little used.]

5. To lay on, as hands in the ceremony of ordination, or of confirmation.

6. To obtrude fallaciously.

Our poet thinks not fit

T' impose upon you what he writes for wit.

7. Among printers, to put the pages on the stone and fit on the chase, and thus prepare the form for the press.

To impose on, to deceive; to mislead by a trick or false pretense; vulgarly, to put upon. We are liable to be imposed on by others, and sometimes we impose on ourselves.

IMPO'SE, noun s as z. Command; injunction. [Not used.]

Imposed

IMPO'SED, participle passive Laid on, as a tax, burden, duty or penalty; enjoined.

Imposes on, deceived.

Imposer

IMPO'SER, noun One who lays on; one who enjoins.

--The imposers of these oaths might repent.

Imposing

IMPO'SING, participle present tense Laying on; enjoining; deceiving.

1. Commanding; adapted to impress forcibly; as an imposing air or matter.

--Large and imposing edifices, embosomed in the groves of some rich valley.

Imposing-Stone

IMPO'SING-STONE, noun Among printers, the stone on which the pages or columns of types are imposed or made into forms.

Imposition

IMPOSI'TION, noun s as z. [Latin impositio. See Impose.]

1. In a general sense, the act of laying on.

2. The act of laying on hands in the ceremony of ordination, when the bishop in the episcopal church, and the ministers in congregational churches, place their hands on the head of the person whom they are ordaining, while one prays for a blessing on his labors. The same ceremony is used in other cases.

3. The act of setting on or affixing to; as the imposition of names.

4. That which is imposed; a tax, toll, duty or excise laid by authority. Tyrants oppress their subjects with grievous impositions.

5. Injunction, as of a law or duty.

6. Constraint; oppression; burden.

Let it not be made, contrary to its own nature, the occasion of strife, a narrow spirit, and unreasonable impositions on the mind and practice.

7. Deception; imposture.

Being acquainted with his hand, I had no reason to suspect an imposition

8. A supernumerary exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.

Impossibility

IMPOSSIBIL'ITY, noun [from impossible.]

1. That which cannot be; the state of being not possible to exist. That a thing should be and not be at the same time, is an impossibility

2. Impracticability; the state or quality of being not feasible or possible to be done. That a man by his own strength should lift a ship of the line, is to him an impossibility as the means are inadequate to the end. [See Impossible.]

Impossible

IMPOSS'IBLE, adjective [Latin impossibilis; in and possibilis, from possum, to be able.]

1. That cannot be. It is impossible that two and two should make five, or that a circle and a square make five, or that a circle and a square should be the same thing, or that a thing should be, and not be at the same time.

2. Impracticable; not feasible; that cannot be done.

With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Matthew 19:26.

Without faith it is impossible to please God. Hebrews 11:6.

There are two kinds of impossibilities; physical and moral. That is a physical impossibility, which is contrary to the law of nature. A thing is said to be morally impossible when in itself it is possible, but attended with difficulties or circumstances which give it the appearance of being impossible [See Possible, Practicable and Impracticable.]

Impost

IM'POST, noun [Latin impositum, impono.]

1. Any tax or tribute imposed by authority; particularly, a duty or tax laid by government on goods imported, and paid or secured by the importer at the time of importation. Imposts are also called customs.

2. In architecture, that part of a pillar in vaults and arches, on which the weight of the building rests; or the capital of a pillar, or cornice which crowns the pier and supports the first stone or part of an arch.

Imposthumate

IMPOS'THUMATE, verb intransitive impos'tumate. [See Imposthume.]

To form an abscess; to gather; to collect pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body.

IMPOS'THUMATE, verb transitive To affect with an imposthume or abscess.

Imposthumated

IMPOS'THUMATED, participle passive Affected with an imposthume.

Imposthumation

IMPOSTHUMA'TION, noun The act of forming an abscess; also, an abscess; an imposthume.

Imposthume

IMPOS'THUME, noun impos'tume. [This word is a corruption of apostem, Latin apostema; Gr. to separate, to withdraw, or to stand off; to stand.]

An abscess; a collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body.

[This word and its derivatives, being mere corruptions, might well be suffered to pass into oblivion.]

IMPOS'THUME, verb intransitive The same as imposthumate.

Impostor

IMPOS'TOR, noun [Low Latin impostor from impono. See Impose.]

One who imposes on others; a person who assumes a character for the purpose of deception; a deceiver under a false character. It seems to be yet unsettled, whether Perkin Warbeck was an impostor A religious impostor may be one who assumes the character of a preacher, without authority; or one who falsely pretends to an extraordinary commission from heaven, and terrifies people with denunciations of judgments.

Imposturage

IMPOS'TURAGE, noun Imposition. [Not in use.]

Imposture

IMPOS'TURE, noun [Latin impostura. See Impose.]

Deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition practiced by a false pretender.

--Form new legends,

And fill the world with follies and impostures.

Impostured

IMPOS'TURED, adjective Having the nature of imposture.

Imposturous

IMPOS'TUROUS, adjective Deceitful. [Not used.]

Impotence

IM'POTENCE,

IM'POTENCY, noun [Latin impotentia; in and potentia, from possum. See Power.]

1. Want of strength or power, animal or intellectual; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility; defect of power, natural or adventitious, to perform any thing.

Some were poor by the impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots and cripples.

The impotence of exercising animal motion attends fevers.

2. Moral inability; the want of power or inclination to resist

or overcome habits and natural propensities.

3. Inability to beget.

4. Ungovernable passion; a Latin signification. [Little used.]

Impotency

IM'POTENCY, n. [L. impotentia; in and potentia, from possum. See Power.] 1. Want of strength or power, animal or intellectual; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility; defect of power, natural or adventitious, to perform any thing. Some were poor by the impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots and cripples. The impotence of exercising animal motion attends fevers.2. Moral inability; the want of power or inclination to resist or overcome habits and natural propensities. 3. Inability to beget.4. Ungovernable passion; a Latin signification. [Little used.]

Impotent

IM'POTENT, adjective [Latin impotens.]

1. Weak; feeble; wanting strength or power; unable by nature, or disabled by disease or accident to perform any act.

I know thou wast not slow to hear,

Nor impotent to save.

2. Wanting the power of propagation, as males.

3. Wanting the power of restraint; not having the command over; as impotent of tongue.

IM'POTENT, noun One who is feeble, infirm, or languishing under disease.

Impotently

IM'POTENTLY, adverb Weakly; without power over the passions.

Impound

IMPOUND', verb transitive [in and pound. See Pound.]

1. To put, shut or confine in a pound or close pen; as, to impound unruly or stray horses, cattle, etc.

2. To confine; to restrain within limits.

Impounded

IMPOUND'ED, participle passive Confined in a pound.

Impounder

IMPOUND'ER, noun One who impounds the beasts of another.

Impounding

IMPOUND'ING, participle present tense Confining in a pound; restraining.

Impoverish

IMPOV'ERISH, verb transitive

1. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence. Idleness and vice are sure to impoverish individuals and families.

2. To exhaust strength, richness or fertility; as, to impoverish land by frequent cropping.

Impoverished

IMPOV'ERISHED, participle passive Reduced to poverty; exhausted.

Impoverisher

IMPOV'ERISHER, noun One who makes others poor.

1. That which impairs fertility.

Impoverishing

IMPOV'ERISHING, participle present tense Making poor; exhausting.

Impoverishment

IMPOV'ERISHMENT, noun Depauperation; a reducing to indigence; exhaustion; drain of wealth, richness or fertility.

Impower

IMPOWER. [See Empower.]

Impracticability

IMPRACTICABIL'ITY

IMPRAC'TICABLE, adjective [in and practicable. See Practice.]

1. That cannot be done or performed; infeasible; not to be effected by human means, or by the means proposed. It is impracticable for a man to lift a ton by his unassisted strength; but not impracticable for a man aided by a mechanical power.

2. Untractable; unmanageable; stubborn; as a fierce, impracticable nature.

3. That cannot be passed or traveled; as an impracticable road; a colloquial sense.

Impracticable

IMPRAC'TICABLE, a. [in and practicable. See Practice.] 1. That cannot be done or performed; infeasible; not to be effected by human means, or by the means proposed. It is impracticable for a man to lift a ton by his unassisted strength; but not impracticable for a man aided by a mechanical power.2. Untractable; unmanageable; stubborn; as a fierce, impracticable nature.3. That cannot be passed or traveled; as an impracticable road; a colloquial sense.

Impracticableness

IMPRAC'TICABLENESS, noun [See Impracticable.]

1. The state or quality of being beyond human power, or the means proposed; infeasibility.

2. Untractableness; stubbornness.

Impracticably

IMPRAC'TICABLY, adverb In a manner or degree that hinders practice.

--Morality not impracticably rigid.

Imprecate

IM'PRECATE, verb transitive [Latin imprecor; in and precor, to pray. See Pray.]

To invoke, as an evil on any one; to pray that a curse or calamity may fall on one's self or on another person.

Imprecated

IM'PRECATED, participle passive Invoked on one, as some evil.

Imprecating

IM'PRECATING, participle present tense Calling for evil on one's self or another.

Imprecation

IMPRECA'TION, noun [Latin imprecatio.] The act of imprecating, or invoking evil on any one; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one.

Imprecatory

IM'PRECATORY, adjective Containing a prayer for evil to befall a person.

Imprecision

IMPRECIS'ION, noun s as z. [in and precision.]

Want of precision or exactness; defect of accuracy.

Impregn

IMPRE'GN, verb transitive impre'ne. [Latin in and proegnans. See Pregnant.]

To impregnate; to infuse the seed of young, or other prolific principle. [Used in poetry. See Impregnate.]

Impregnable

IMPREG'NABLE, adjective

1. Not to be stormed, or taken by assault; that cannot be reduced by force; able to resist attack; as an impregnable fortress.

2. Not to be moved, impressed or shaken; invincible.

The man's affection remains wholly unconcerned and impregnable

Impregnably

IMPREG'NABLY, adverb In a manner to resist penetration or assault; in a manner to defy force; as a place impregnably fortified.

Impregnate

IMPREG'NATE, verb transitive [See Pregnant.]

1. To infuse the principle of conception; to make pregnant, as a female animal.

2. To deposit the fecundating dust of a flower on the pistils of a plant; to render prolific.

3. To infuse particles of one thing into another; to communicate the virtues or one thing to another, as in pharmacy, by mixture, digestion, etc.

IMPREG'NATE, adjective Impregnated; rendered prolific or fruitful.

Impregnated

IMPREG'NATED, adjective Made pregnant or prolific; fecundated; filled with something by mixture, etc.

Impregnating

IMPREG'NATING, participle present tense Infusing seed or pollen; rendering pregnant; fructifying; fecundating; filling by infusion or mixture.

Impregnation

IMPREGNA'TION, noun The act of fecundating and rendering fruitful; applied to animals or plants.

1. The communication of the particles or virtues of one thing to another.

2. That with which any thing is impregnated.

3. Saturation.

Imprejudicate

IMPREJU'DICATE, adjective [Latin in, proe, and judico.]

Not prejudged; unprejudiced; not prepossessed; impartial. [Not used.]

Impreparation

IMPREPARA'TION, noun [in and preparation.] Want of preparation; unpreparedness; unreadiness. [Little used.]

Imprescriptibility

IMPRESCRIPTIBIL'ITY, noun The state of being independent of prescription; the state which renders a thing not liable to be lost or impaired by the prescription of another, or by one's own non-user.

Imprescriptible

IMPRESCRIP'TIBLE, adjective [Latin proescribo; proe and scribo, to write.]

That cannot be lost or impaired by non-user, or by the claims of another founded on prescription.

Rights of mere ability which a man may use or not at pleasure, without any person's having a right to prescribe to me on that subject, are imprescriptible

The rights of navigation, fishing, and others that may be exercised on the sea, belonging to the right of mere ability, are imprescriptible

Impress

IMPRESS', verb transitive [Latin impressum, from imprimo; in and premo, to press.]

1. To imprint; to stamp; to make a mark or figure on any thing by pressure; as, to impress coin with the figure of a man's head, or with that of any ox or sheep; to impress a figure on wax or clay.

2. To print, as books.

3. To mark; to indent.

4. To fix deep; as, to impress truth on the mind, or facts on the memory. Hence, to convict of sin.

5. To compel to enter into public service, as seamen; to seize and take into service by compulsion, as nurses in sickness. In this sense, we use press or impress indifferently.

6. To seize; to take for public service; as, to impress provisions.

IM'PRESS, noun A mark or indentation, made by pressure.

1. The figure or image of any thing made by pressure; stamp; likeness.

2. Mark of distinction; stamp; character.

God leaves us this general impress or character on the works of creation, that they were very good.

3. Device; motto.

To describe emblazoned shields,

IMPRESSes quaint--

4. The act of compelling to enter public service. [See Press.]

Impressed

IMPRESS'ED, participle passive Imprinted; stamped; marked by pressure; compelled to enter public service; seized for public use; fixed in the mind; made sensible; convinced.

Impressibility

IMPRESSIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of being impressible.

Impressible

IMPRESS'IBLE, adjective That may be impressed; that yields to pressure; that may receive impressions. Solid bodies are not easily impressible

1. That may be impressed; that may have its figure stamped on another body.

Impressing

IMPRESS'ING, participle present tense Imprinting; stamping; fixing in the mind; compelling into service.

Impression

IMPRES'SION, noun [Latin impressio.] The act of impressing, as one body on another; as a figure made by impression

1. Mark; indentation; stamp made by pressure; as, a seal makes an impression on wax.

2. The effect which objects produce on the mind. Thus we say, the truths of the gospel make an impression on the mind; they make no impression or a deep and lasting impression The heart is impressed with love or gratitude. We lie open to the impressions of flattery.

3. Image in the mind; idea.

4. Sensible effect. The artillery made no impression on the fort. The attack made no impression on the enemy.

5. A single edition of a book; the books printed at once; as a copy of the last impression The whole impression of the work was sold in a month.

6. Slight, indistinct remembrance. I have an impression that the fact was stated to me, but I cannot clearly recollect it.

Impressive

IMPRESS'IVE, adjective Making or tending to make an impression; having the power of affecting, or of exciting attention and feeling; adapted to touch sensibility or the conscience; as an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.

1. Capable of being impressed; susceptible.

Impressively

IMPRESS'IVELY, adverb In a manner to touch sensibility, or to awaken conscience; in a manner to produce a powerful effect on the mind.

Impressiveness

IMPRESS'IVENESS, noun The quality of being impressive.

Impressment

IMPRESS'MENT, noun The act of impressing men into public service; as the impressment of seamen.

1. The act of compelling into any service; as the impressment of nurses to attend the sick.

2. The act of seizing for public use; as the impressment of provisions for the army.

Impressure

IMPRESS'URE, noun The mark made by pressure; indentation; dent; impression.

Imprest

IM'PREST, noun A kind of earnest-money; loan; money advanced.

IMPREST', verb transitive To advance on loan.

Imprevalence

IMPREV'ALENCE, noun Incapability of prevailing.

Imprimatur

IMPRIMA'TUR, noun [Latin let it be printed.]

A license to print a book, etc.

Imprimery

IMPRIM'ERY, noun A print; impression; a printing-house; art of printing. [Not in use.]

Imprimis

IM'PRIMIS, adverb [Latin imprimis for in primis.]

In the first place; first in order.

Imprint

IMPRINT', verb transitive [Latin imprimo; in and premo, to press. See Print.]

1. To impress; to make by pressure; as a character or device imprinted on wax or cloth.

2. To stamp letters and words on paper by means of types; to print.

3. To fix on the mind or memory; to impress. Let your father's admonitions and instructions be imprinted on your mind.

Imprinted

IMPRINT'ED, participle passive Marked by pressure; printed; fixed in the mind or memory.

Imprinting

IMPRINT'ING, participle present tense Marking by pressure; printing; fixing on the mind or memory.

Imprison

IMPRIS'ON, verb transitive impriz'n.

1. To put into a prison; to confine in a prison or jail, or to arrest and detain in custody in any place.

2. To confine; to shut up; to restrain from escape; to deprive of the liberty to move from place to place; as, to be imprisoned in a cell.

He imprisoned was in chains remediless.

Try to imprison the resistless winds.

Imprisoned

IMPRIS'ONED, participle passive Confined in a prison or jail; restrained from escape or from going at large.

Imprisoning

IMPRIS'ONING, participle present tense Shutting up in prison; confining in a place.

Imprisonment

IMPRIS'ONMENT, noun The act of putting and confining in prison;

the act of arresting and detaining in custody.

1. Confinement in a place; restraint of liberty to go from place to place at pleasure. Appropriately, the confinement of a criminal or debtor within the walls of a prison, or in the custody of a sheriff, etc.

False imprisonment is any confinement of the person, or restraint of liberty, without legal or sufficient authority. The arrest or detention of the person by an officer without warrant, or by an illegal warrant, or by a legal warrant executed at an unlawful time, is false imprisonment

Improbability

IMPROBABIL'ITY, noun [See Improbable.] The quality of being improbable, or not likely to be true; unlikelihood.

Improbable

IMPROB'ABLE, adjective [Latin improbabilis; in and probabilis, from probo, to prove.] Not likely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances of the case. It is always improbable that men will knowingly oppose their own interest; yet the fact is possible. It is improbable that snow will fall in July, but not incredible.

Improbably

IMPROB'ABLY, adverb In a manner not likely to be true.

1. In a manner not to be approved.

Improbate

IM'PROBATE, verb transitive [Latin improbo.] To disallow; not to approve. [Not used.]

Improbation

IMPROBA'TION, noun The act of disapproving. [Not in use.]

Improbity

IMPROB'ITY, noun [Latin improbitas; in and probitas, from probo, to approve.] That which is disapproved or disallowed; want of integrity or rectitude of principle; dishonesty. A man of unknown improbity is always suspected, and usually despised.

Improduced

IMPRODU'CED, adjective Not produced. [Not in use.]

Improficiency

IMPROFI'CIENCY, noun Want of proficiency.

Improfitable

IMPROF'ITABLE, adjective Unprofitable. [Not in use.]

Impromptu

IMPROMP'TU, adverb [Latin in promptu, in readiness, from promptus, ready, quick.] Off hand; without previous study; as a verse uttered or written impromptu

IMPROMP'TU, noun A piece made off hand, at the moment, or without previous study; an extemporaneous composition.

Improper

IMPROP'ER, adjective [Latin improprius; in and proprius, proper.]

1. Not proper; not suitable; not adapted to its end; unfit; as an improper medicine for a particular disease; an improper regulation.

2. Not becoming; not decent; not suited to the character, time or place; as improper conduct in church; improper behavior before superiors; an improper speech.

3. Not according to the settled usages or principles of a language; as an improper word or phrase.

4. Not suited to a particular place or office; unqualified; as, he is an improper man for the office.

Improperly

IMPROP'ERLY, adverb Not fitly; in a manner not suited to the end; in a manner not suited to the company, time, place and circumstances; unsuitably; incongruously.

1. In a manner not according with established usages; inaccurately; ungrammatically; as, to speak or write improperly

Impropitious

IMPROPI'TIOUS, adjective Not propitious; unpropitious.

[The latter is the word in use.]

Improportionable

IMPROPO'RTIONABLE, adjective Not proportionable. [Little used.]

Improportionate

IMPROPO'RTIONATE, adjective Not proportionate; not adjusted. [Little used.]

Impropriate

IMPRO'PRIATE, verb transitive [Latin in and proprius, proper.]

1. To appropriate to private use; to take to one's self; as, to impropriate thanks to one's self. [Not used.]

2. To annex the possessions of the church or a benefice to a layman.

IMPRO'PRIATE, adjective Devolved into the hands of a layman.

Impropriated

IMPRO'PRIATED, participle passive Appropriated to one's self. [See Appropriated.]

1. Put in possession of a layman.

Impropriating

IMPRO'PRIATING, participle present tense Appropriating to one's self.

1. Annexing to a lay proprietor.

Impropriation

IMPROPRIA'TION, noun The act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice into the hands of a layman.

1. The benefice impropriated.

Impropriator

IMPRO'PRIATOR, noun A layman who has possession of the lands of the church or an ecclesiastical living.

Impropriety

IMPROPRI'ETY, noun [Latin improprius. See Improper.]

1. Unfitness; unsuitableness to character, time, place or circumstances; as impropriety of behavior or manners. Levity of conduct is an impropriety in a religious assembly and at a funeral. Rudeness or forwardness in young persons before their superiors, is impropriety Indecency and indecorum are improprieties.

2. Inaccuracy in language; a word or phrase not according with the established usages or principles of speaking or writing.

Many gross improprieties, however authorized by practice, ought to be discarded.

Improsperity

IMPROSPER'ITY, noun Unprosperity; want of success.

Improsperous

IMPROS'PEROUS, adjective [in and prosperous.] Not prosperous; not successful; unfortunate; not yielding profit; not advancing interest; as an improsperous undertaking or voyage.

[Unprosperous is the word most generally used in the sense.]

Improsperously

IMPROS'PEROUSLY, adverb Unsuccessfully; unprosperously; unfortunately.

Improsperousness

IMPROS'PEROUSNESS, noun Ill success; want of prosperity.

Improvability

IMPROVABIL'ITY, noun [See Improvable.] The state or quality of being capable of improvement; susceptibility of being made better.

Improvable

IMPROV'ABLE, adjective [See Improve.] Susceptible of improvement; capable of growing or being made better; that may be advanced in good qualities.

We have stock enough, and that too of an improvable nature, that is capable of infinite advancement.

Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties.

I have a fine spread of improvable lands.

1. That may be used to advantage, or for the increase of any thing valuable.

The essays of weaker heads afford improvable hints to better.

2. Capable of tillage or cultivation.

A scarcity of improvable lands began to be felt in these colonies.

Improvableness

IMPROV'ABLENESS, noun Susceptibility of improvement; capableness of being made better, or of being used to advantage.

Improve

IMPROVE, verb transitive improov'. [Latin in and probo, to prove, or the adjective probus.]

1. To make better; to advance in value or good qualities. We amend a bad, but improve a good thing.

A good education improves the mind and the manners. A judicious rotation of crops tends to improve land.

2. To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to use for advantage; to employ for advancing interest, reputation or happiness.

Many opportunities occur of improving money, which, if a man misses, he may not afterwards recover.

Melissus was a man of parts, capable or enjoying and improving life.

True policy as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion.

This success was not improved.

Those who enjoy the advantage of better instruction, should improve their privileges.

They were aware of the advantages of their position, and improved them with equal skill and diligence.

Those moments were diligently improved.

The candidate improved his advantages.

A hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved.

Whatever interest we have at the throne of grace, should be improved in behalf of others.

The court seldom fails to improve the opportunity.

My lords, no time should be lost, which may promise to improve this disposition in America.

If we neglect to improve our knowledge to the ends for which it was given--

It is the fault of persons not improving that light.

The shorter the time--the more eager were they to improve it.

A young minister wishing to improve the occasion--

3. To apply to practical purposes; as, to improve a discourse, or the doctrines stated and proved in a sermon.

4. To advance or increase by use; in a bad sense.

I fear we have not a little improved the wretched inheritance of our ancestors.

5. To use; to employ; as, to improve a witness of a deposition.

Let even the coach, the inns, or the ships be improved as openings for useful instruction.

6. To use; to occupy; to cultivate. The house or the farm is now improved by an industrious tenant.

This application is perhaps peculiar to some parts of the U. States. It however deviates little from that in some of the forgoing definitions.

IMPROVE, verb intransitive improov'. To grow better or wiser; to advance in goodness, knowledge, wisdom or other excellence. We are pleased to see our children improve in knowledge and virtue. A farm improves under judicious management. The artisan improves by experience. It is the duty, as it is the desire of a good man, to improve in grace and piety.

We take care to improve in our frugality and diligence.

1. To advance in bad qualities; to grow worse.

Domitian improved in cruelty toward the end of his reign.

[I regret to see this word thus used, or rather perverted.]

2. To increase; to be enhanced; to rise.

The price of cotton improves, or is improved.

[A mercantile and modern use of the word.]

To improve on, to make useful additions or amendments to; to bring nearer to perfection; as, to improve on the mode of tillage usually practiced.

Improved

IMPROV'ED, participle passive Made better, wiser or more excellent; advanced immoral worth, knowledge or manners.

1. Made better; advanced in fertility or other good qualities.

2. Used to profit or good purpose; as opportunities of learning improved

3. Used; occupied; as improved land.

Improvement

IMPROVEMENT, noun improov'ment. Advancement in moral worth, learning, wisdom, skill or other excellence; as the improvement of the mind or of the heart by cultivation; improvement in classical learning, science or mechanical skill; improvement in music; improvement in holiness.

1. Melioration; a making or growing better, or more valuable; as the improvement of barren or exhausted land; the improvement of the roads; the improvement of the breed of horses or cattle.

2. A valuable addition; excellence added, or a change for the better; sometimes with on.

The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.

3. Advance or progress from any state to a better.

There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays.

4. Instruction; growth in knowledge or refinement; edification.

I look upon your city as the best place of improvement

5. Use or employment to beneficial purposes; a turning to good account; as the improvement of natural advantages or spiritual privileges.

A good improvement of his reason.

6. Practical application; as the improvement of the doctrines and principles of a sermon.

I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.

Hence,

7. The part of a discourse intended to enforce and apply the doctrines, is called the improvement

8. Use; occupancy.

9. Improvements, plural , valuable additions or melioration, as building, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on a farm.

Improver

IMPROV'ER, noun One who improves; one who makes himself or any thing else better; as an improver of horses or cattle.

1. That which improves, enriches or meliorates; as chalk is an improver of lands.

Improvided

IMPROVI'DED, adjective [Latin improvisus; in and provideo, to foresee or provide.] Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against.

Improvidence

IMPROV'IDENCE, noun [Latin in and providens, providentia, from pro, before, and video, to see.]

Want of providence or forecast; neglect of foresight, or of the measures which foresight might dictate for safety or advantage. Half the inconveniences and losses which men suffer are the effects of improvidence