The middle action, which produceth imperfect bodies, is fitly called, by some of the ancients, inquination or inconcoction, which is a kind of putrefaction. Bacon. Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing, settled in the imagination; but never arriving at the understanding, there to obtain the tincture of reason. Ben Jonson. A marcor is either imperfect, tending to a greater Nothing imperfect or deficient left Or aught that might his happy state secure, Milton's Paradise Lost. Dryden. As obscure and imperfect ideas often involve our reason, so do dubious words puzzle men. Locke. Should sinking nations summon you away, Stepney. The world is more apt to censure than applaud, and himself fuller of imperfections than virtues. Addison's Spectator. That his taste for the true pathetic was imperfect, too manifestly appears, from the general tenor of his translations, as well as tragedies. Beattie. IMPERFECT TENSE, in grammar, a tense that denotes some preterite case, or denotes the thing to be at that time present, and not quite finished; as scribebam, I was writing. IMPERFORABLE, adj. Lat. in and perIMPERFORATE, adj. Sforo. Not to be bored or pierced through; without an orifice. Sometimes children are born imperforate; in which case a small puncture, dressed with a tent, effects the cure. IMPERIAL, adj. Sharp. Fr. imperial; Latin imperialis. Royal; marking sovereignty; belonging to an emperor or On such day As Heaven's great year brings forth, the' empyreal Of angels, by imperial summons called, Milton's Paradise Lost. So would he use his imperiousness, that we had a delightful fear and awe, which made us loth to lose our hopes. Sidney. He is an imperious dictator of the principles of vice, and impatient of all contradiction. More. A man, by a vast and imperious mind, and a heart large as the sand upon the sea shore, could command all the knowledge of nature and art. Tillotson. The main body of the marching foe IMPERIAL DIET. See DIET. IMPERIOUSLY, ad monarch; commanding. physician, of a noble family, born at Vicenza, in IMPERIOUSNESS. n.s.. Imperialist, one belonging to an emperor. Imperious, tyrannical; haughty; arrogant; powerful; overbearing. Imperiously, in an insolent or arrogant manner. Imperiousness, the air of command or authority. If it be your proud will To show the power of your imperious eyes. Spenser The imperialists imputed the cause of so shameful a flight unto the Venetians. This imperious man will work us all From princes into pages. Shakspeare. Henry VIII. My due from thee is this imperial crown, Which, as immediate from thy place and blood, Derives itself to me. Id. Henry IV. 1568. He was professor of philosophy and physic at Padua; and composed several esteemed works in prose and verse, particularly Exercitationes Exotica; Venet. 1640; 4to. He died in 1623. IMPERISHABLE, adj. Fr. Lat. in and perco. In and perish. destroyed. imperissable ; Not to be We find this our empyreal form The high, the mountain majesty of worth Milton. In the sun's face, like yonder Alpine snow,— IMPER'SONAL, adj. Fr. impersonal ; Lat. IMPERSONALLY, adv. impersonalis. Not varied according to the persons. Impersonals be declined throughout all moods and tenses: a verb impersonal hath no nominative case before it. Accidence. IMPERSONAL VERBS, in Latin grammar, are verbs to which the nominative of any certain person cannot be prefixed; or verbs destitute of the two first and principal persons, as decet, oportet, &c. The impersonal verbs of the active voice end in t, and those of the passive in tur; they are conjugated through the third person singular of almost all the tenses and moods: they want the imperative, instead of which the present of the subjunctive is used; as pæniteat, pugnetur, &c. IMPERSUA'SIBLE, adj. Lat. in and persuasibilis. Not to be moved by persuasion. Every pious person ought to be a Noah, a preacher of righteousness; and if it be his fortune to have as impersuasible an auditory, if he cannot avert the deluge, it will yet deliver his own soul, if he cannot benefit other men's. Decay of Piety. IMPERTINENCE, n. s. to the present, or has no present weight; trifling; importunate; meddling: impertinence, folly; intrusion: impertinent, a trifler, or intruder: impertinently, troublesomely; officiously; intrusively. The law of angels we cannot judge altogether impertinent unto the affairs of the church of God. O, matter and impertinency mixt, Hooker. Shakspeare. King Lear. Some, though they lead a single life, yet their thoughts do end with themselves, and account future times impertinences. Bacon. It will be said I handle an art no way suitable to my employments or fortune, and so stand charged with intrusion and impertinency. Wotton's Architecture. I have had joy given me as preposterously, and as impertinently, as they give it to men who marry where they do not love. Suckling. The contemplation of things that are impertinent to us, and do not concern us, are but a more specious idleness. Tillotson. Governours would have enough to do to trouble their heads with the politicks of every meddling L'Estrange. officious impertinent. I envy your felicity, delivered from the gilded impertinences of life, to enjoy the moments of a solid Evelyn. contentment. Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all this is only fancy? If it is a dream, let me Addison. enjoy it. Nothing is more easy than to represent as impertinencies any parts of learning, that have no immediate relation to the happiness or convenience of mankind. Id. Adieu for him The dull engagements of the bustling world! A kenside. Adieu the sick impertinence of praise! IMPERTRANSIBILITY, n. s. Lat. in and pertranseo. Impossibility to be passed through. I willingly declined those many ingenious reasons given by others; as of the impertransibility of eternity, and impossibility therein to attain to the present limit of antecedent ages. Hale. IMPERVIOUS, adj. Lat. impervius, from IMPER'VIOUSNESS, n. s. § in per via. Impassable; impenetrable; inaccessible; the state of not admitting any passage. Let the difficulty of passing back To found a path from hell to that new world. Milton. We may thence discern of how close a texture glass is, since so very thin a film proved so impervious to the air, that it was forced to break the glass to free itself. Boyle. The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies. Newton's Opticks. A great many vessels are, in this state, impervious by the fluids. Arbuthnot. From the damp earth impervious vapours rise, Increase the darkness, and involve the skies. Pope. IMPETIG'INOUS, adj. From Lat. impetigo. Scurfy; covered with small scabs. IM'PETRABLE, adj. Fr. impetrer; Lat. IM'PETRATE, V. a. impetro. Possible to IMPETRATION, n. s. Sbe obtained by entreaty to obtain by solicitation: the act of obtaining by prayer. The blessed sacrament is the mystery of the death of Christ, and the application of his blood, which was shed for the remission of sins, and is the great means of impetration, and the meritorious cause of it. IMPETUOSITY, n. s. IMPETUOUS, adj. IMPETUOUSLY, adv. IMPETUOUSNESS, n. s. IM'PETUS, n. s. Taylor. impetueux; Fr. Lat. impetus. Violent; forcible; vehement; fierce; passionate: fury; vehe mence of passion: impetus, violent effort; or violent tendency to any point: applicable to mer. and things. I will set upon Aguecheek a notable report of valour, and drive the gentleman into a most hideous opinion of his rage, skill, fury, and impetuosity. Shakspeare. Twelfth Night. The mind gives not only licence, but incitation to the other passions, to take their freest range, and act Decay of Piety. with the utmost impetuosity. I wish all words of rage might vanish in that breath that utters them; that, as they resemble the wind in fury and impetuousness, so they might in transientness. Id. They view the windings of the hoary Nar; Through rocks and woods impetuously he glides While froth and foam the fretting surface hides. Addison. The king, 'us true, is noble, but impetuous. Rowe. Why did not they continue their descent 'till they were continuous to the sun, whither both mutual attraction and impetus carried them? Bentley's Sermons. Blind and impetuous in its fond pursuits, Leaves the grey-headed reason far behind. Thomson. To check the' impetuous all-involving tide Of human woes, how impotent thy strife! High o'er thy mounds devouring surges ride, Nor reck thy bathed toils, or lavished life. Beattie. Judgment of Paris. IMPIERCEABLE, adj. In and pierce. Impenetrable; not to be pierced. Exceeding rage inflamed the furious beast ; For never felt his impierceable breast So wondrous force from hand of living wight. Spenser. Fr. impieté; Lat. impietas. IMPIETY, n. s. IM'PIOUS, adj. Irreverence towards the M'PIOUSLY, adv. Supreme Being; an act of wickedness, expressive of irreligion: in this sense it has a plural. Impious, wicked; ungodly; profane. That Scripture standeth not the church of God in any stead to direct, but may be let pass as needless to be consulted with, we judge it prophane, impious, and irreligious to think. Hooker. If they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of those impieties for which they are now visited. Alas! thou sinnest now, my Cain; thy words Sound impious in mine ears. Byron. IMPIGNORATE, v. a. Lat. in and pigIMPIGNORATION, N. s. Snus. To pawn or pledge: the act of pawning, or putting in pledge. To IMPINGE', v. n. Lat. impingo. To fall against; to strike against; to clash with. Things are reserved in the memory by some corporeal exuvia and material images, which, having im pinged on the common sense, some vacant cells of the brain. rebound thence into Glanville. The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the solid cr impervious parts of bodies. Newton's Opticks. IMPING'UATE, v. a. Lat. in and pinguis. To fatten; to inake fat. And 'tis below my greatness to disown it: dangerous enemies of the British nation. Addison. IMPLANT, v. a. ? Lat. in and planto. IMPLANTATION, n. 8. To infix; to insert; to place; to engraft; to settle: to set, or sow: the act of setting or planting. From thy implanted grace in man. Milton. Paradise Lost. No need of public sanctions this to bind, Which Nature has implanted in the mind. Sidney, Dryden. God, having endowed man with faculties of knowing. was no more obliged to implant those innate notions in his mind, than that, having given him reason, hands, and materials, he should build him bridges. Locke. There grew to the outside of the arytenoides another cartilage, capable of motion by the help of some muscles that were implanted in it. Ray. IMPLAUSIBLE, adj. In and plausible. Not specious; not likely to seduce or persuade. Nothing can better improve political school-boys than the art of making plausible or implausible harangues against the very opinion for which they resolve to determine. Swift. IMPLEMENT, n. s. Lat. impleo. SomeIMPLETION, . s. S thing that fills up vacancy or supplies wants; tools of manufacture; vessels of a kitchen: impletion, the act of filling, or the state of being full. Unto life many implements are necessary; more, if we seek such a life as hath in it joy, comfort, delight, and pleasure. Hooker. Theophrastus conceiveth, upon a plentiful impletion, there may succeed a disruption of the matrix. Browne. Wood hath coined seventeen thousand pounds, and nath his tools and implements to coin six times as Swift. much. Proud Esculapius' son Where are thy boasted implements of art And all thy well crammed magazines of health? IM'PLEX, adj. IMPLICATE, v. ll. IMPLICATION, n. s. Blair's Grave. Fr. impliquer; Lat. implexus, implico. Intricate; entangled: opposed to simple: to embarrass; to involve; to infold and perplex: implication, an inference, not expressed; an involution, or entanglement. The ingredients of saltpetre do so mutually implicate and hinder each other, that the concrete acts but very languidly. Boyle. Three principal causes of firmness are the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of the comId. ponent parts. Though civil causes, according to some men, are of less moment than criminal, yet the doctors are, by implication, of a different opinion. Ayliffe's Parergon. Every poem is either 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 good, or from good to bad. Spectator. IMPLICIT, adj. Į Fr. implicite; Lat. imIMPLICITLY, adv. plicitus. Entangled; enfolded; but this sense is rare: inferred, not expressed; entire; resting upon another; connected with another over which that which is connected to it has no power; trusting without reserve or examination implicitly, with unreserved confidence or obedience. There be false peaces or unities, when the peace is grounded but upon an implicit ignorance; for all colours will agree in the dark. Bacon. No longer by implicit faith we err, Whilst every man's his own interpreter. Derham. My blushing muse with conscious fear retires, And whom they like implicitly admires. Roscommon. In the first establishments of speech there was an implicit compact, founded upon common consent, that such and such words should be signs, whereby they would express their thoughts one to another. South. We implicitly follow in the track in which they lead us, and comfort ourselves with this poor reflection, that we shall fare as well as those that go before us. Rogers. Learn not to dispute the methods of his providence ; but humbly and implicitly to acquiesce in and adore them. Atterbury. The divine inspection into the affairs of the world doth necessarily follow from the nature and being of God; and he that denies this, doth implicitly deny his existence he may acknowledge what he will with his mouth but in his heart he hath said there is no God. In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. The humble shrub, Bentley. Pope. They ship their oars, and crown with wine The holy goblet to the powers divine, Imploring all the gods that reign above. Pope's Odyssey. Fain to implore the aid of Flattery's screen, Even from thyself thy loathsome heart to hide. Beattie. Minstrel, IMPLY', v. a. Fr. impliquer; Lat. implico. To unfold; to cover; to entangle. Not in use. To involve or comprise as a consequence or concomitant. His courage stout, Striving to loose the knot that fast him ties, Himself in straighter bonds too rash implies. Faerie Queene. And Phoebus flying so most shameful sight, His blushing face in foggy cloud implies. Id. That it was in use among the Greeks, the word triclinium implieth. Browne's Vulgar Errours. Bows the strength of brawny arms imply, Emblems of valour, and of victory. Dryden. Where a malicious act is proved, a malicious intention is implied. Sherlock. IMPOI'SON, v. a. Fr. empoisonner. It might be written empoison. To corrupt with poison; to kill with poison; but this is rare. One doth not know How much an ill word doth impoison liking. Shakspeare. Id. A man by his own arms impoisoned, And with his charity slain. IMPO'LARILY, adv. In and polar. Not according to the direction of the poles. Little used. Being impolarily adjoined into a more vigorous loadstone, it will, in a short time, exchange its poles. Browne. IMPOLITICALLY, adv. In and politic. Imprudent; indiscreet; void of art or forecast. He that exhorteth to beware of an enemy's policy, doth not give counsel to be impolitick; but rather to use all prudent foresight and circumspection, lest our simplicity be overreached by cunning slights. Hooker. IMPON'DEROUS, adj. In and ponderous. Void of perceptible weight. It produces visible and real effects by imponderous and invisible emissions. Browne's Vulgar Errours. IMPOROSITY, n. s. Į In and porous. IMPOROUS, adj. SAbsence of interstices; compactness: close of texture; completely solid. The porosity or imporosity betwixt the tangible parts, and the greatness or smallness of the pores. Bacon. It has its earthly and salinous parts so exactly resolved, that its body is left imporous, and not discreted by atomical terminations. Browne's Vulgar Errours. velocity, being all perfectly solid and imporous, they If atoms should descend plump down with equal would never the one overtake the other. This to attain, whether heaven move, or earth, Imports not, if thou reckon right. Milton. O then, what interest shall I make Add to the former observations made about vegetables a third of the same import made in mineral substances. If I endure it, what imports it า you Boyle. Dryden. Some business of import that triumph wears You seem to go with. Dryden and Lee's Oedipus. The great important end that God designs religion for, the government of mankind, sufficiently shews the necessity of its being rooted deep in the heart, and put beyond the danger of being torn up by any South. ordinary violence. These mines fill the country with greater numbers of people than it would be able to bear, without the importation of corn from foreign parts. Addison. The emperor has forbidden the importation of their manufactures into any part of the empire. Id. on Italy. When there is any dispute, the judge ought to appoint the sum according to the eloquence and ability of the advocate, and in proportion to the import of the cause. Ayliffe. Examine how the fashionable practice of the world can be reconciled to the important doctrine of our religion. Rogers. For Elis 1 would sail with utmost speed, T'import twelve mares, which there luxurious feed. Pope. Thy own importance know, Nor bound thy narrow views to things below. Id. It is impossible to limit the quantity that shall be brought in, especially if the importers of it have so sure a market as the Exchequer. Swift. Of what seems A trifle, a mere nothing by itself, Thomson. Joy is an import; joy is an exchange; Joy flies monopolists; it calls for two: Rich fruit! Heaven planted! never plucked by one. Young. It is of importance to observe, that, whatever is easy and agreeable to the organs of speech, always sounds grateful to the ear. Blair's Lectures. Drink and be mad then, 'tis your country bids; Gloriously drunk obey the important call: Her cause demands the assistance of your throats, Ye all can swallow, and she asks no more. Cowper. Now shall this rule be allowed to every science, and not to the most important of all sciences-the science of life and manners? Beattie. The good old gentleman had been detained By winds and waves, and some important captures; And, in the hope of more at sea remained, Although a squall or two had damped his raptures. Byron. Don Juan. IMPORTUNATE, adj.) Fr. importuner ; sant petition. ImIMPORTUNITY, n. s. Jportune, to teaze; harass; or molest. Importune, constantly recurring; troublesome; vexatious; unseasonable; coming at a wrong time. Importunely, troublesomely; incessantly. Importunity, incessant solicitation. |