Immoveable, infixed, and frozen round, How much happier is he, who, centrating on himself, remains immovable, and smiles at the madness of the dance about him! Dryden. How revered is the face of this tall pile, IMMUNITY, n. s. Fr. immunité; Lat. immunitas; Span. immunidad; Ital. immunita, vacuus à munere. Freedom; exemption; privilege; discharge from obligation. Simon sent to Demetrius, to the end he should give the land an immunity, because all that Tryphon did was to spoil. 1 Mac. xiii. 34. Of things harmless whatsoever there is, which the whole church doth observe, to argue for any man's immunity from observing the same, it were a point of most insolent madness. Hooker. Common apprehensions entertain the antidotal condition of Ireland, conceiving only in that land an immunity from venamous creatures. Browne. Granting great immunities to the commons, they prevailed so far as to cause Palladius to be proclaimed Sidney. successor. IMMURE', v. a. & n. s. Old Fr. emurer; Lat. in and muris. To enclose with walls; to confine; to shut up or imprison. Immure, a wall; an enclosure. Lysimachus immured it with a wall. Sandys. Pity, you ancient stones, these tender babes, Whom envy hath immured within your walls! Shakspeare. One of these three contains her heavenly picture; And shall I think in silver she's immured! Their vow is made To ransack Troy; within whose strong immures Thy threat'nings, Lord, as thine, thou mayst revoke; But if immutable and fixed they stand, Continue still thyself to give the stroke, IMOLA, a populous district of Italy, in the department of Reno. The number of its citizens was, in 1801, reckoned 116,728. IMOLA, a city of Italy, in the province of Romagna, capital of the above district, anciently Forum Cornelii. By a former division of the Italian republic, it was included in the depart ment of the Amone. It is seated on an island formed by the Santerno; is strongly fortified with walls, turrets, and ditches; and has an ancient castle, with a cathedral and twelve churches. On the 11th of February, 1797, a rebellion was quelled in this town, and the papal army defeated by the French, under Buonaparte, assisted by the legion of Lombardy. The town is a bishop's see, and its streets are neat, containing several buildings worth the attention of the traveller. Imola has produced several men of note, the most distinguished of whom were Giovanni da Imola, professor of jurisprudence at Bologna, and Giovanni Tartagno, his son. Its academy was once of considerable repute, particularly about 1566; and the poetry of Zappi, one of its members, retains a high character. Population 8400. Eighteen miles south-east of Bologna, and forty N. N. E. of Florence. IMP, n. s. & v.a. Welsh, imp, a shoot, impio, to engraft. A son; the offspring; a progeny; a subaltern devil. Imp, to lengthen or enlarge with any thing adscititious: it was origiterm used by falconers, who repair a nally a Id. hawk's wing with adscititious feathers. Of feeble trees ther comen wretched impes. Chaucer. Prologue to the Monkes Tale. Such we deny not to be the imps and limbs of Satan. Hooker. If then we shall shake off our slavish yoke, Imp out our drooping country's broken wings. Shakspeare. A lad of life, an imp of fame. Id. Henry V. Help, ye tart satyrists to imp my rage With all the scorpions that should whip this age. Cleaveland. Id. At the first descent on shore he was not immured with a wooden vessel, but he did countenance the landing in his long-boat. Wotton. In IMMU'SICAL, adj. In and musical. harmonious: wanting proportion of sound. All sounds are either musical, which are ever equal, or immusical, which are ever unequal, as the voice in speaking, and whisperings. Bacon. We consider the immusical note of all swans we ever beheld or heard of. Browne. IMMUTABILITY, n.s. Fr. immuable, IMMUTABLE, adj. immutabilité; Lat. IMMUTABLY, adv. Simmutabile. Exemption from change; invariableness: unalterable; ever the same. Immutability can only be predicated of the Deity, and is one of his essential attributes. By two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lye, we have a strong consolation. Heb. vi. As soon as you can hear his knell, Milton. close or hard. So without least impulse or shadow of fate, Or aught by me immutably foreseen, Swift They are angular; but of what particular figure is not easy to determine, because of their being impacted so thick and confusedly together. Woodward on Fossils. To IMPAINT', v. a. In and paint. paint; to decorate with colors. Not in use. Shakspeare. What verity is there in that numeral conceit in the lateral division of man, by even and odd? and so by parity or imparity of letters in men's names, to determine misfortunes on either side of their bodies? Browne's Vulgar Errours. IMPARK', v. a. In and park. To enclose with, or for a park; to sever from a common. IMPART', v. a. I Latin impertire. Το IMPARTIBLE, adj. grant; to give; to make known by words or tokens; to communicate; to ble: this word is elegant, although used by few grant as to a partaker. Impartible, communicawriters. But, when sweets words their ioyning sweet dis- Flesh may impair, quoth he, but reason can repair. To th'eare a dainty musique they imparted. To change any such law, must needs, with the common sort, impair and weaken the force of those grounds whereby all laws are made effectual. Objects divine Hooker. Must needs impair and weary human sense. Milton. A loadstone, kept in undue position, that is, not lying on the meridian, or with its poles inverted, receives in longer time impair in activity and exchange of faces, and is more powerfully preserved by site than dust of steel. Browne. His posterity, at this distance, and after so perpetual impairment, cannot but condemn the poverty of Adam's conception, that thought to obscure himself from his Creator in the shade of the garden. Browne's Vulgar Errours. Spenser. Britain's Ida. I freely told you all the wealth I had Shakspeare. Merchant of Venice. As in confession the revealing is for the case of a man's heart, so secret men come to the knowledge of many things, while men rather discharge than impart Bacon. their minds. ment. To give just form to every regiment; Thou to me thy thoughts Wast wont, I mine to thee was wont to impart. High state and honours to others impart, Milton. Dryden. Thy form benign, O goddess, wear, Thy philosophic train be there To soften not to wound my heart. Gray. Ode to Adversity. IMPARTIAL, adj. in and partes. IMPARTIALITY, π. S. to party; indifferent; disinterested; equal in the Such pardon therefore as I give my folly, Milton. Samson Agonistes. Dryden Since the Scripture promises eternal happiness and pardon of sin, upon the sole condition of faith and sincere obedience, it is evident, that he only can plead a title to such a pardon, whose conscience impartially tells him that he has performed the required condition. South. Nay, I have listened vious. There are in America many high and impassable mountains, which are very rich. Raleigh. IMPASS'IBLE, adj. Fr. impassibilite; IMPASSIBILITY, N. S. Lat. in and patior, IMPASS'IBLENESS, n. s. impatientia. ExempIMPASSIVE, adj. >tion from suffering: IMPATIENCE, n. s. insusceptible of inIMPATIENT, adj. jury from external IMPATIENTLY, adv. causes : impassive has the same meaning: impatience, rage and fretfulness under suffering; vehemence of temper; eagerness: impatient, vehemently agitated by some painful passion; hot; hasty; ardently desirous. Impatient is he that wol not be taught. Chaucer. The Persones Tale. All the power of his wits has given way to his impatience. Shakspeare. King Lear. To be impatient at the death of a person, concerning whom it was certain he must die, is to mourn because thy friend was not born an angel. Taylor's Rule of Holy Living. He considered one thing so impatiently, that he would not admit any thing else to be worth consideration. Clarendon. Yet hard for gods, and too unequal work we find, Against unequal arms to fight in pain, Against unpained, impassive, from which evil Ruin must needs ensue. Milton's Paradise Lost. Addison's Spectator. If the upper soul check what is consented to by the will, in compliance with the flesh, and can then hope that, after a few years of sensuality, that rebellious servant should be eternally cast off, drop into a perpetual impassible nothing, take a long progress into a land where all things are forgotten, this would be Hammond. some colour. Fame, impatient of extremes, decays Not more by envy than excess of praise. Pope. Pale suns, unfelt at distance, roll away; And ou the impassive ice the lightnings play. Id. How shameless a partiality is it, thus to reserve all the sensualities of this world, and yet cry out for the impassibleness of the next? Decay of Piety. IMPASTED, adj. In and paste. Concreted as into paste. Horribly trickt With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, Baked and impasted with the parching fires. Shakspeare. IMPATIENS, touch-me-not, a genus of the monogamia order, syngenesia class of plants; natural order twenty-fourth, corydales: CAL. diphyllous: COR. pentapetalous and irregular, with a hooded nectarium: CAPS. superior and quinquevalved. I. balsamina, or balsam, is a native of India. It has a fibrous root, an upright, thick, succulent stalk, branching all around a foot and a half or two feet high; with long, spear-shaped, sawed leaves, the upper ones alternate; and from the joints of the stalk and branches clusters of short foot-stalks, each sustaining one large irregular flower, of different colors in the varieties; flowering from June or July till September. This species requires artificial warmth. The seeds will indeed grow in the full ground, but rarely before May; and more freely then, if covered with a hand-glass, &c. But the plants raised by artificial heat will flower five or six weeks sooner than those raised in the natural ground. The seeds ought therefore always to be sowed on a hot-bed in March or April, and the plants continued therein till June; and, if the frames be deep, they will then be drawn up to the length of two or three feet; after which they may be planted in pots, which must likewise be continued in the hot-bed till the plants have taken fresh root. I. noli-me-tangere, or common yellow balsamine, is a native of Britain, but is cultivated in many gardens for curiosity. It has a fibrous root, an upright jointed, succulent, stalk, about eighteen inches high, with alternate oval leaves; and, from the axillas of the stalks, long, slender, branching foot-stalks, each sustaining many yellow flowers; succeeded by taper capsules, that burst open, and dart forth their seeds with great velocity, whence its name. It is very hardy, and will grow freely from the seeds in any common border. IMPATRONISE, v. a. Fr. impatroniser, in and patronise. To gain to one's self the power of any seigniory. This word is not usual. The ambition of the French king was to impatronize himself of the dutchy. Bacon's Henry VII. IMPAWN', v. a. In and pawn. To impignorate; to pawn; to give as a pledge; to pledge. Go to the king, and let there be impawned Shakspeare. Henry IV. Shall drop their blood, in approbation Shakspeare. IMPEACH', v. a. & n. s.` Fr. empecher; IMPEACH'ABLE, adj. Lat. impedio, imIMPEACH'ER, n. s. peto. To hinder; IMPEACHMENT, n. s. to accuse by public IMPEDE', v. a. authority: impeach, IMPEDIMENT, n. s. hindrance; impediment: impeachable, accusable; chargeable with criminality: impeachment, a public accusation; an obstruction or hindrance, but this latter sense is obsolete: impediment is used for opposition, obstruction, or hindrance: impede, to hinder. They bring one that was deaf, and had an imped:Mark vii. 32. ment in his speech. The minds of beasts grudge not at their bodies comfort, nor are their senses letted from enjoying their objects we have the impediments of honour, and the torments of conscience. Sidney. Had God omitted by positive laws to give religion to the world, the wisdom of his providence had been impeachable. Grew. They were both impeached by a house of commons. Addison. Great dissentions were kindled between the nobles and commons on account of Coriolanus, whom the latter had impeached. Swift. The consequences of Coriolanus's impeachment had like to have been fatal to their state. Id. All the forces are mustered to impede its passage. Decay of Piety. Suspicion is a heavy armour, and With its own weight impedes more than it protects. Byron. IMPEARL, v. a. In and pearl. To form in resemblance of pearls; to decorate as with pearls. Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops, which the sun Impearls on every leaf, and every flower. Milton. IMPECCABLE, adj. Į Fr. impeccable, imIMPECCABILITY, n. s. Speccabilite; Lat. in and pecco. Exempt from the possibility of s.nning: strictly applicable to the deity alone. That man pretends he never commits any act prohibited by the word of God, and then that were a rare charm to render him impeccable, or that is the means of consecrating every sin of his. Hammond on Fundamentals. Infallibility and impeccability are two of his attriPope. butes. before. IMPEND' v. n. IMPENDENT, adj. IMPENDENCE, n. s. IMPENDING, part. Of petty power impelled, of those who wore The wreath which Dante's brow alone had worn Byron. Childe Harold. Latin impendeo. To hang over; to be at hand; to press nearly; a state of near approach: in its figurative meaning, generally used in an ill sense. Good sometimes is not safe to be attempted, by rea son of the impendence of a greater sensible evil. Hale. If the evil feared or impendent be a greater sensible evil than the good, it over-rules the appetite to aver Id. sation. Destruction sure over all your heads impends; Ulysses comes, and death his steps attends. The forest deepens round, Prpe. penetro. The quality of not being pierceable or entered by external force: impervious; insusceptible of intellectual impression; not to be reformed or moved; with hardness to a degree incapable of impression; not to be wrought upon by entreaty. It is the most impenetrable cur I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. Some will never believe a proposition in divinity, if any thing can be said against it: they will be credulous in all affairs of life, but impenetrable by a sermon of the gospel. Taylor. Three of adamantine rock, Impenetrable, impaled with circling fire Yet unconsumed. Milton's Paradise Lost. Deep into some thick covert would I run, Impenetrable to the stars or sun. Dryden. All bodies, so far as experience reaches, are either bard, or may be hardened; and we have no other evidence of universal impenetrability, besides a large experience, without an experimental exception. Newton's Opticks. Blunt the sense, and fit it for a skull Pope. In solitude like savage, in some glade IMPENITENCY, n. s. Fr. impenitence; IMPENITENCE, n. s. Latin in privative IMPENITENT, adj. and panitentia. ObIMPENITENTLY, adv. duracy; want of remorse for crimes; disregard of God's threatenings against sin: negligent of the duty of repentance; without sorrow for evil doings. Our Lord in anger hath granted some impenitent men's request; as, on the other side, the apostle's suit he hath of favour and mercy not granted. They died Impenitent, and left a race behind Hooker. Like to themselves. Milton. Where one man ever comes to repent, a thousand end their days in final impenitence. South. He will advance from one degree of wickedness and impenitence to another, 'till at last he becomes hardened without remorse. Rogers. When the reward of penitents, and punishment of impenitents, is once assented to as true, 'tis impossible but the mind of man should wish for the one, and Hammond. have dislike to the other. What crowds of these, impenitently bold, In sounds and jingling syllables grown old, Still run on poets! Pope. IMPEN'NOUS, adj. Latin in and penna. IMPERATORIA, masterwort, a genus of the digynia order, and pentandria class of plants: natural order forty-fifth, umbellatæ. The fruit is roundish, compressed in the middle, gibbous, and surrounded with a border; the petals are inflexoemarginated. There is only one species, viz. I. ostruthium, a native of the Austrian and Styrian Alps and other mountainous places of Italy. Lightfoot informs us, that he found it in several places on the banks of the Clyde in Scotland; but whether it be indigenous is uncertain. The root is as thick as a man's thumb, running in the ground; it is fleshy, aromatic, and has a strong acrid taste, biting the tongue like pellitory of Spain; the leaves arise immediately from the root; they have long foot-stalks, dividing into three very short ones at the top, each sustaining a trilobate leaf, indented on the border. The foot-stalks are deeply channelled, and, when broken, emit a rank odor. flower-stalks rise about two feet high, dividing into two or three branches, each terminated by a pretty large umber of white flowers, whose petals are split; these are succeeded by oval compressed seeds, or by parting the roots in autumn. It thrives best in a shady situation. The Wanting wings. This word is convenient, but, I The root has a flower similar to that of angelica, think, not used. The IMPERATIVE is one of the moods of a verb, used when we would command, intreat, or advise. In the Latin and Greek languages this mood has a peculiar termination to distinguish it, doce or doceto, teach; lege or legito, read, &c., and not only so, but the termination varies, according as we address one or more persons, as audi and audite; ακείτω, ακείτων, ακείτωσαν, &c. IMPERATOR, Latin, i. e. commander, in Roman antiquity, a title of honor conferred on Victorious generals by their armies, and afterwards confirmed by the senate. Though originally no more than a military title in the republican armies, yet upon the degeneracy of the Roman republic, and assumption of the supreme power by Cæsar and Augustus, it was used to express the most unlimited despotism, and a rank superior to that of king. Hence the origin of emperor. and is esteemed a good sudorific. IMPERCEPTIBLE, adj. Fr. imperceptiIMPERCEPTIBLENESS, n. s. ble; Lat. in and IMPERCEPTIBLY, adv. S percipio. Not to be discovered or perceived; small; subtle; quick or slow, so as to elude observation: the quality of eluding observation. Some things are in their nature imperceptible by our sense; yea, and the more refined parts of material existence, which, by reason of their subtilty, escape our perception. Hale. Many excellent things there are in nature, which, by reason of their subtilty and imperceptibleness to us, are not so much as within any of our faculties to apId. prehend. In the sudden changes of his subject with almost imperceptible connections, the Theban poet is his Dryden. master. Upon reading of a fable we are made to believe we advise ourselves: the moral insinuates itself imperceptibly, we are taught by surprize, and become wiser and better unawares. Addison. IMPERFECT, adj. Fr. imparfait; Lat. IMPERFECTION, n.s. imperfectus, from in and IMPERFECTLY, adv. S perficio. Not complete; not absolutely finished; frail; not entirely good. Imperfection, is either physical or moral defect; a failure. Imperfectly, not thoroughly finished or rendered complete. For, certes, Jesu Crist is entirely all good; in him is not imperfection; and therefore he forgeveth all parfitly, or elles never a dele. Chaucer. The Persones Tale. Laws, as all other things human, are many times full of imperfection; and that which is supposed behoveful unto men, proveth oftentimes most pernicious. Hooker. Something he left imperfect in the state, Which, since his coming forth, is thought of, Which brought the kingdom so much fear and danger, That his return was most required. Shakspeare. |