IMBST, or UIMST, a town of the Austrian states, in the Tyrol, on the Inn. It has 2200 inhabitants, and is the chief place of a district, including the Upper Immerthal and the Vinstgau, with a population of 96,000. Imbst has acquired notoriety from the number of Canary birds reared in it for sale. The annual value of birds was formerly £4000. Eight miles southwest of Stambs, and nine S. S. E. of Ruetten. IMBUE', v. a. Lat. imbuo. To tincture deep; to imbibe or soak with any liquor or die. they satiate and soon fill, Though pleasant, but thy words, with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness Lo satiety.

Milton.

I would render this treatise intelligible to every rational man, however little versed in scholastick

learning, among whom I expect it will have a fairer passage, than those that are deeply imbued among with other principles. Digby. Clothes which have once been thoroughly imbued with black, cannot well afterwards be dyed into lighter color. Boyle. Where the mineral matter is great, so as to take the eye, the body appears imbued and tinctured with the color. Woodward.

To IMBURSE', v. a. Fr. bourse. To stock with money This should be emburse, from Fr. embourser.

IMIRETTA, a country of Asia, north of Persia, stretches along the southern limit of Caucasus, having the Black Sea on the west and Georgia on the east, and lies between the fortythird and forty-fourth degree of north latitude. The internal government is in a great measure independent; but, in 1784, Russia assumed a nominal supremacy here. Almost every family chooses for itself a habitation in the woody hills, or pleasant valleys, where they live in the most retired manner. The Imiretians are said to have deep sounding tones by which they understand and call each other on any important occasion; and, on this signal being given, hundreds of people issue from places where no one could have supposed there had been a creature. They are chiefly of Georgian origin. The capital is

Cotatis, on the left bank of the Phasis. IMITABILITY, n. s.) Lat. imitabilis; Fr. IM ITABLE, adj. imitable; Span. imiIM'ITATE, V. a. tar; Lat. imitor. The IMITATION, H. s. quality of being imiIMITATIVE, ady table: imitable, worIM'ITATOR, 7. s. thy or possible to be imitated: imitate, to copy; endeavour to resemble; to counterfeit; to pursue the course of a composition with parallel images: imitation, the act of copying the copy; a method of translation: imitative, inclined to copy or resemble; thus man is an imitative being: aiming at resemblance, as, painting is an imitative art; formed after some original: imitator, one that copies

after or resembles another.

How could the most base men, and separate from all imitable qualities, attain to honour but by an observant slavish course? Raleigh.

We imitate and practise to make swifter motions than Bacon. any out of our muskets.

As acts of parliament are not regarded by most imitable writers, I account the relation of the unproper for history. Hyard.

senses.

Atterbury.

Several other arts imitate as well as Poetry; and an imitation of human manners and characters may be carried on in the humblest Prose, no less than in the more lofty Poetic strains. Blair's Lectures. IMITATION, in music, admits of two different Sound and motion are either capable of imitating themselves by a repetition of their own particular modes; or of imitating other objects of a nobler and more abstracted nature. Nothing perhaps is so purely mental, nothing so remote from external sense, as not to be imitable by music. Dramatic or theatrical music,' says Rousseau, contributes to imitation no less than painting or poetry: it is in this common pr nciple that we must investigate both the orin

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and the final cause of all the fine arts. But this imitation is not equally extensive in all the unitative arts. Whatever the imagination can represent to itself is in the department of poetry. Painting, which does not present its pictures to the imagination immediately, but to external sense, and to one sense alone, paints only such objects as are discoverable by sight. Music might appear subjected to the same limits, wit : respect to the ear; yet it is capable of paintin every thing, even such images as are objects of ocular perception alone; by a magic almost inconceivable it seems to transform the ears into eyes, and endow them with the double function of perceiving visible objects by the mediums of their own; and it is the greatest miracle of an art, which can only act by motion, that it can make that very motion represent absolute quies

cence.

Night, sleep, silence, solitude, are the noble efforts, the grand images, represented by a picturesque music. Though all nature should be asleep, he who contemplates her does not sleep; and the art of the musician consists in substi

tuting, for this image of insensibility in the object, those emotions which its presence excites in the heart of the contemplator. He not only,' continues Rousseau, ferments and agitates the ocean, amitaates the flame to conflagration, makes the fountain murmur m his harmony, calls the rattling shower from heaven, and swells the terrent to restless race; but he paints the Lorrors e. a Loundtess and fightful desert, involves the

subterraneous dungeon in tenfold gloom, soothes the tempest, tranquillises the disturbed elements, and from the orchestra diffuses a recent fragrance through imaginary groves; nay, he excites in the soul the same emotions which we feel from the immediate perception and full influence of these objects.' Imitation, in its technical sense, is a reiteration of the same air, or of one which is similar, in several parts where it is repeated by one after the other, either in unison, or at the distance of a fourth, a fifth, a third, or any other interval whatever. The imitation may be happily enough pursued, even though several notes should be changed; provided the same air may always be recognised, and that the composer does not deviate from the laws of proper modulation. Frequently, in order to render the imitation more sensible, it is preceded by a general rest, or by long notes, which seem to obliterate the impression formerly made by the air, till it is renewed with greater force and vivacity by the commencement of the imitation.

IMMACULATE, adj. Fr. immaculé; Lat. immaculatus. Spotless, pure, undefiled, as applied to character; limpid, clear, not turbid, as applied to fluids.

To keep this commandment immaculate and blameless, was to teach the gospel of Christ. Hooker. His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate.

Shakspeare.

Thou clear, immaculate, and silver fountain, From whence this stream, through muddy passages, Hath had his current and defiled himself. Id. The king, whom catholicks count a saint-like and immaculate prince, was taken away in the flower of his age. Bacon. Were but my soul as pure From other guilts as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate. Denham's Sophy.

The world's infectious; few bring back at eve Immaculate, the manners of the morn. Young. Hence chartered boroughs are such public plagues, And burghers, men immaculate perhaps

In all their private functions, once combined,
Become a loathsome body, only fit
For dissolution, hateful to the main.

IMMAN'ACLE, v. a.

fetter; to confine.

Cowper.

From manacle. To

IMMANE', adj. Lat. immanis. Vast; prodigiously great.

IM'MANENT, adj. Fr. immanent; Lat. in and maneo. Intrinsic; inherent; internal.

Judging the infinite essence by our narrow selves, we ascribe intellections, volitions, and such immanent actions, to that nature which hath nothing in common with us. Glanville.

What he wills and intends once, he willed and intended from all eternity; it being grossly contrary to the very first notions we have of the infinite perfections of the Divine Nature to state or suppose any new immanent act in God.

South.

IMMATERIAL, adj.) Fr. immateriel; Lat. IMMATERIALITY, n. s. in and materia. InIMMATERIALLY, adv. corporeal; distinct IMMATERIALISED, adj. from, or void of matIMMATERIALNESS, n. s. ter; unimportant; IMMATERIATE, adj. Jwithout weight; impertinent; without relation. This sense has crept into the conversation and writings of many persons, but ought to be rejected. Immaterially, in a manner not depending upon matter: immaterialised, incorporeal. The other words are synonymous.

Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual, the glorious inhabitants of those sacred palaces, where there is nothing but light and immortality; no shadow of matter for tears, discontentments, griefs, and uncomfortable passions to work upon; but all joy, tranquility, and peace, even for ever and ever, do dwell. Hooker. It is a virtue which may be called incorporeal and immateriate, whereof there be in nature but few.

The visible species of things strike not our senses immaterially; but, streaming in corporal rays, do carry with them the qualities of the object from whence they flow, and the medium through which they pass. Browne's Vulgar Errours.

No man that owns the existence of an infinite spirit can doubt the possibility of a finite spirit; that is, such a thing as is immaterial, and does not contain any principle of corruption. Tillotson.

When we know cogitation is the prime attribute of a spirit, we infer its immateriality, and thence its imWatts. mortality.

Those immaterial felicities we expect, suggest the necessity of preparing our appetites, without which heaven can be no heaven to us. Decay of Piety. IMMATURE, adj. IMMATURELY, adv. IMMATURE NESS, N. s. IMMATURITY, N. S.

Lat. immaturus. Not arrived at fulness or completion; unripe; hasty; before the natu

ral time; premature; a state short of perfection; incompleteness. Used generally in the figurative

sense.

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They viewed the vast immeasurable abyss, Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild. Milton. There ye shall be fed, and filled, Immeasurably; all things shall be your prey. What a glorious shew are those beings entertained with, that can see such tremendous objects wandering through those immeasurable depths of ether! Addison's Guardian. Nor friends are there, nor vessels to convey, Nor oars to cut the immeasurable way.

Pope's Odyssey. IMMECHANICAL, adj. In aud mechanical. Not according to the laws of mechanics. We have nothing to do to show any thing that is immechanical, or not according to the established laws of nature. Cheyne.

Nothing will clear a bead possessed with immechanical notions. Mead.

IMMEDIACY, n. s. Fr. immediat; Lat. IMMEDIATE, adj. in and medius. Next

IMMEDIATENESS, 22. S. Sunto; presently following; without any interposing medium: this seems to be the primary and essential meaning. Not acting by second causes; instant; present with regard to time: immediacy, personal greatness; power of acting without dependance, This is a harsh word, and sense peculiar, I bebelieve, to Shakspeare: immediately is instantly, without the intervention of other cause or event: the substantive has a similar meaning.

South

By a long immemorial practice, and prescription of an aged thorough-paced hypocrisy, they come to believe that for a reality, which, at first practice of it, hey themselves knew to be a cheat. IMMENSE', adj. Fr. immense; Lat. IMMEN ́SITY, 2.s. immensus; Greek aIMMENSURABILITY, S. метола. That which IMMENSURABLE, ud). cannot be limited, bounded, or measured; infinite: terms applicable to buildings and to the universe; applicable also to the attributes of Deity, which are beyond the grasp of finite understandings.

O goodness infinite! goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce! Milton. By the power we find in ourselves of repeating, as often as we will, any idea of space, we get the idea of immensity, Locke.

He that will consider the immensity of this fabrick, and the great variety that is to be found in this inconsiderable part of it which he has to do with, may think that in other mansions of it there may be other and different intelligent beings. Locke.

As infinite duration hath no relation unto motion and time, so infinite or immense essence hath no relation unto body; but is a thing distinct from all corporeal magnitude, which we mean when we speak of immensity, and of God as of an immense being. Grew.

It is a melancholy reflection that our country, which, in times of popery, was called the nation of saints, should now have less appearance of religion in it than any other neighbouring state or kingdom; whether they be such as continue still immersed in the errors of the church of Rome, or such as are recovered out of them. Addison's Freeholder.

Achilles's mother is said to have dipped him, when he was a child, in the river Styx, which made him invulnerable all over, excepting that part which the mother held in her hand during this immersion.

We are prone to engage ourselves with the business, the pleasures, and the amusements of this world: we give ourselves up too greedily to the pursuit, and immerse ourselves too deeply in the enjoyments of them. Id.

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

Id.

One half sate up, though numbed with the immersion, While t'other half were laid down in their place, At watch and watch. Byron. Don Juan. IMMERIT, n.s. Lat. immeritum. Want of worth; want of desert. This is a better word than demerit, which is now used in its stead.

When I receive your lines, and find their expressions of a passion, reason and my own immerit tell me it must not be for me.

IMMETHODICAL, adj. IMMETHOD'ICALLY, adv. without regularity or method.

Suckling. In and methodical. Confused;

M. Bayle compares the answering of an immethodical author to the hunting of a duck: when you have

him full in your sight, he gives you the slip, and oecomes invisible. Addison.

IM'MINENCE, n. s. Į Fr. imminent; Lat. IM'MINENT, adj. Simminens.

Nearness of any ill or danger; threatening; impending, always used in an ill sense.

What dangers at any time are imminent, what evils hang over our heads, God doth know, and not we. Hooker.

I do not speak of flight, of fear, of death; But dare all imminence, that gods and men Address their dangers in.

Three times to-day

Shakspeare.

You have defended me from imminent death. Id. These she applies for warnings and portents

Of evils imminent; and on her knee

Hath begged, that I will stay at home to-day. Id.
To them preached

Conversion and repentance, as to souls
In prison, under judgments imminent.

Milton.

IMMINUTION, n.s. From Lat. imminuo. Diminution; decrease.

These revolutions are as exactly uniform as the earth's are, which could not be, were there any place for chance, and did not a Providence continually oversee and secure them from all alteration or imminution.

IMMIS'SION, n. s. ¿ IMMIT', v. n.

Ray on the Creation. Lat. immissio, immitto. The act of sending in;

contrary to emission: to send in. To IMMIX', v. a. In and mix. To min

gle.

Samson, with these immixt, inevitably Pulled down the same destruction on himself.

Milton.

IMMIX'ABLE, adj. In and mix. Impossible to be mingled.

Fill a glass sphere with such liquors as may be clear, of the same color, and immixable. Wilkins. IMMOBILITY, n. s. Fr. immobilité; from Lat. immobilis. Unmoveableness; want of motion; resistance to motion.

The course of fluids through the vascular solids must in time harden the fibres, and abolish many of the canals; from whence dryness, weakness, immobility, and debility of the vital force.

IMMOD'ERATE, anj. IMMOD'ERATELY, adv. IMMODERATION, n. s.

Arbuthnot on Aliments.

Fr. immoderé ; Lat. immoderatus. From in privative,

and modus: excessive; beyond a due measure; in an excessive degree: want of moderation;

excess.

Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death.

Shakspeare.

One means, very effectual for the preservation of health, is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions, or distracted with immoderate cares. Ray on the Creation.

The heat weakened more and more the arch of the earth, sucking out the moisture that was the cement of its parts, drying it immoderately, and chapping it. Burnet's Theory.

IMMOD'EST, adj. Fr. immodeste: Span. IMMOD'ESTY, N. S. Simmodesta; Lat. immodestus; sine modestiá. A term peculiarly applicable to the conduct of females; less in degree than impudent, but implying more culpability than indecent; a want of delicacy, chastity, or purity; and applicable, not merely to the disposition, but to the externals, as words, looks, attire, &c.: it has also been used to signify unreasonable, exorbitant, arrogant, but these terms belong to immoderate.

'Tis needful that the most immodest word

Be looked upon and learned; which once attained, Comes to no further use

Than to be known and hated.

Shakspeare.

Roscommon. Pope. immoler; Lat.

It was a piece of immodesty.
IM'MOLATE, v. a. ? Fr.
IMMOLATION, n. s. immolo. To sacrifice;

to kill and offer in sacrifice: immolation implies either the act or the offering.

In the picture of the immolation of Isaac, or Abraham sacrificing his son, Isaac is described as a little boy. Browne.

These courtiers of applause being oftentimes reduced to live in want, these costly trifles so engrossing all that they can spare, that they frequently enough are forced to immolate their own desires to their vanity. Boyle.

Now immolate the tongues, and mix the wine, Sacred to Neptune, and the powers divine. Pope. We make more barbarous immolations than the most savage heathens. Decay of Piety.

IMMORʼAL, adj. I From in privative, and IMMORALITY, n. s. mos. Wanting regard to the laws of natural religion; practically vicious; dishonest; wanting virtue: acts opposed to the laws of God, as theft, adultery, false witness, &c.

Such men are put into the commission of the peace who encourage the grossest immoralities, to whom all the bawds of the ward pay contribution. Swift. There's Epicurus

And Aristippus, a material crew!
Who to immoral courses would allure us;
By theories quite practicable too.

Byron. Don Juan.

Fr. immortalité; Lat. immortalis. From in and mor

Stalis.

Exempt

from death; being never to die; perpetuai : immortalise, to make immortal; to exempt from oblivion; to become immortal, in this sense peculiar to Pope: immortally, for ever; without death, and without evil.

But that immortall light, which there doth shine, Is many thousand times more bright, more cleare More excellent, more glorious, more divine; Through which to God all mortall actions here And even the thoughts of men, doe plaine appeare; For from the eternal truth it doth proceed, Thro' heavenly vertue which her beames doe breed. Spenser. Hymnes. Though virtue vitall dyd vanishe away, Hir virtues inward remayn immortal, Eterne, and exempte from deathe and dekay, As fountaynes flowying with course contynuall. G. Cavendish's Metrical Visions. Drive them from Orleans, and be immortalized. Shakspeare.

Her body sleeps in Capulet's monument, And her immortal part with angels lives. Id. Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

There is your crown,

And he that wears the crown immortally, Long guard it yours!

Id.

Id. Henry IV. For mortal things desire their like to breed, That so they may their kind immortalize. Davies. Only some twinkling stars remain beheld: Then mortal made; yet, as one fainting dies, Two other in its place succeeding rise;

And drooping stock with branches fresh immortalize. Fletcher's Purple Island. Milton.

Quaff immortality, and joy. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded though immortal.

Id. Paradise Lost.

The Paphian queen, With gored hand, and veil so rudely torn, Like terror did among the immortals breed, Taught by her wound that goddesses may bleed.

What pity 'tis that he cannot wallow immortally in his sensual pleasures!

Fix the year precise,

Waller.

Bentley.

Pope.

When British bards begin t' immortalize.
When we know cogitation is the prime attribute of

a spirit, we infer its immateriality, and thence its immortality. Watts.

But not the pomp that royalty displays,
Nor all the imperial pride of lofty Troy,
Nor virtue's triumph of immortal praise,
Could rouse the languor of the lingering boy.