M M м IMMODESTY. n. S. [immodeftie, Fr. from im. immutability of God, and the nature of his ima moder. Want of modefty; indecency.- mortality. Cbegne. When we know cogitation is It was a piece of immodesty.

Pope. the prime attribute of a spirit, we infer its immate*T. IMMOLATE. v. a. [immolo, Lat.immoler, riality, and thence its immortality. Watts. 2. Ex. Fr.] 1. To facrifice; to kill in facrifice.—These emption from oblivion. courtiers of applause being oftentimes reduced to (1.) *T. IMMORTALIZE. v.a. (immortalifer, live in want, these coftly trifles fo ingrossing all From immortal.] 1. To make immortal ; to perthat they can spare, that they frequently enough petuate; to exempt from death.-. are forced to immolate their own defires to their For mortal things defire their like to breed, vanity. Boyle. 2. To offer in sacrifice.

That so they may their kind immortalize. Dav. Now immolate the tongues, and mix the wine, 2. To exempt from oblivion.-Sacred to Neptune and the powers divine. Drivethem from Orleans, and be immortaliz'd. Pope's Odyssey.

Sbak. (1.) * IMMOLATION. n. S. [immolation, Fr. (2.) * To INMORTALIZE. v.a. To become imfrom immolate.] 1. The act of facrificing.-In mortal. This word is, I think, peculiar to Pope. the picture of the immolation of Isaac, or Abra- Fix the year precise, ham sacrificing his son, Isaac is described as a lit- When British bards begin t immortalize. Pope. tle , boy. Brown. 2. A facrifice offered. We (1.) * IMMORTALLY. adv. (from the adjec. make more barbarous immolations than the most tive.) So as never to die. favage heathens. Decay of Piety.

(2.) * IMMORTALLY. adv. [from immortal.) (2.) IMMOLATION was a ceremony in the Row With exemption from death ; without end. man sacrifices, consisting of throwing upon the

There is your crown ; head of the vidim some corn and frankincense, And he that wears the crown immortally, with the MOLA, or falt cake, and a little wine. Long guard it yours !

Sbak. * IMMOMENT. adj. [in and moment.) Trif- -What pity 'tis that he cannot wallow immorling; of no importance or value. A barbarous tall, in his sensual pleasure ! Bentley. word.

*IMMOVABLE. adj. (in and moveable.) 1. Not I some lady-trifles have reserv'd,

to be forced from its place.-We shall not quefImmoment toys, things of such dignity

tion his removing the earth, when he finds an inAs we greet modern friends withal. Shak. movable base to place his engine upon. Brown.

IMMORAL. adj. [in and moral.] 1. Wanting 2. Not liable to be carried away ; real in law. regard to the laws of natural religion ; as, a flat- When an executor meddles with the immou terer of vice is an immoral man. 2. Contrary to able eftate, before he has seized on the moveable honefty; dithoneft: as, desertion of a calumniated goods, it may be then appealed from the execufriend is an immoral action.

tion of sentence. Ayliffe's Parergon.Unshaken ; * IMMORALITY. n. f. [from immoral.) Dif- unaffected.-How much happier is he, who, cenhonefty; want, of virtue; contrariety to virtue.- tring on himfelf, remains immovable, and smiles Such men are put into the commission of the at the madness of the dance about him! Dryden. peace who encourage the groffest immoralities, to * IMMOVABLY. adv. (from immovable.). In whom all the bawds of the ward pay contribution. a state not to be shaken.Immovably firm to their Swift.

duty, when they could have no prospect of reIMMORTAL. adj. [immortalis, Lat.] . Ex. ward. Atterbury. empt from death ; being never to die. -To the (1.)

* IMMUNITY, n. S. (immunité, Fr. immu king eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise nitas, Lat.] 1. Discharge from any obligation.God, be glory for ever. 1 Tim. i. 17.

Of things harmless whatsoever there is, which the Her body sleeps in Capulet's monument, whole church doth observe, to argue for any man's And her immortal part with angels lives. Shak. immunity from observing the same, it were a point - There was an opinion in gross, that the soul was of most infolent madness.. Hoaker. 2. Privilege ; immortal.. Abbot's Description of the World. exemption from onerous duties.Granting great The Paphian queen,

immunities to the commons, they prevailed to far With gored hand, and veil so rudely torn, as to cause Palladius to be proclaimed succeffor. Like terror did among th' immortals breed, Sidney.-Simon sent to Demetrius to the end be Taught by her wound that goddesses may bleed. should give the land an immunity, because all that

Waller. «Tryphon did was to spoil. 1 Mac. xiii. 34.-The 7. Never-ending ; perpetual.

laity invidiously aggravate the rights and immuns.. Give me my robe, put on my crown : I have ties of the clergy. Spratt's Sermons. 3. Freedom. Immortal longings in me.

Sbak. -Common apprehenfions entertain the antidotal IMMORTALITY. n.S: (immortalité, Fr.from condition of Ireland, conceiving only in that land immortal.]. 1. Exemption from death ; life never an'immunity from venomous creatures. Brown's to end. This corruptible Thall put on incorrup. Vulgar Errours.tion, and this mortal, immortality. Corinth. But this annex'd condition of the crown, Quaff immortality and joy.

Milton. Immunity from errors, you disown. Dryden. He th' immortality of souls proclaim'd, (2) IMMUNITY is particularly understood of Whom th' oracle of men the wisest nam’d. the liberties granted to cities and communities.

Denbam. * IMMURE. n. S. (from the verb.] A wall; an -His existence will of itself continue for ever, un- inclosure, as in Shakespeare, but perhaps to where less it be destroyed; which is imposible, from the elfe.

Theis

Their vow is made

and Statif. Account of the Cifalpine Republic,) fig. To ransack Troy, within whose ftrong immures nalized themselves by extraordinary valour on this The ravish'd Helen, Menelaus' queen,

expedition, which was their first service.” The With wanton Paris Neeps.

Sbak. town is a bishop's fee, and is 18 miles SE. of Bo* To IMMURE. v. a. [in and murus, Lat.emurer, logna, and 40 NNE. of Florence. Lon. II.45. E. old French, so that it migbt be written emmure.] Lat. 44. 28. N. To inclose within walls; to confine; to shut up ; IMOSCHI, a district in the late Venetian Dal. to imprison.

matia. Pity, you ancient stones, these tender babes, * IMP. n.S (imp, Welsh, a shoot, a sprout, a Whom envy hath immurid within your walls: sprig.) 1. A fon; the offspring; progeny.--That

Sbak. noble imp your son. Lord Crom. to King Henrg. One of these three contains her heav'nly pic- And thou most dreaded imp of higheft Jove, ture;

Fair Venus' son

Fairy Queets. And shall I think in filver she's immur'd? Shak. The tender imp was weaned from the teat. At the first descent on fhore he was not im.

Fairfax. mur'd with a wooden vessel, but he did counte- A lad of life, an imp of fame. Sbak. Henry V. nance the landing in his long-boat. Wotton.-Ly. 2. A subaltern devil ; a puny devil. In this fenfe fimachus immur'd it with a wall. Sandys's Tra. 'tis still retained.--Such we deny not to be the vels.

imps and limbs of Satan. Hooker.
Though a foul foolish prison her immure

The serpent, after long debate, irresolute
On earth, me, when escap'd is wife and pure. Of thoughts revolv'd, bis final sentence chose,

Denbam. Fit vefsel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom * IMMUSICAL. adj. [in and musical.] Inhar. To enter, and his dark suggestions hide monious ; wanting proportion of found.-All From sharpeft fight.

Milton. founds are either musical, which are ever equal, As soon as you can hear his knell, or immusical, which are ever unequal, as the voice This god on earth turns

din hell; in speaking, and whisperings. Bacon's Nataral And, lo! his minifters of state, Hiftory.-- We confider the immufcal note of all Transform'd to imps, bis levee wait. Swift. fwans we ever beheld or heard of. Brown.

* To Imp. v. a. (impio, to engraff, Welsh.). To * IMMUTABILITY. no- fo [immutabilitas, lengthen or enlarge with any thing adscititious. Lat. immutabilité, Fr. from immutable.] Exemp- It is originally a term used by falconers, who re. tion from change; invariableness; unchangeable. pair a hawk's wing with adfcititious feathers.ness.--The

immutability of God they ftrive unto, by If then we shall shake off our savifh yoke, working after one and the fame manner. Hooker. Imp out our drooping country's broken wings. His exiftence will of itself continue for ever, un

Sbak. lefs it be destroyed; which is impossible, from the

New rebellions raise immutability of God. Cbeyne's Philofopbical Prin. Their hydra heads, and the false north displays ciples.

Her broken league to imp her ferpent wings. * IMMUTABLE. adj. (immutabilis, Lat.) Un

Milton changeable ; invariable; unalterable. By two im- Help, ye tart satyrists, to imp my rage mutable things, in which it was impoffible for With all the scorpions that should whip this age. God to lie, we have a strong consolation. Heb.

Cleavel.

With cord and canvas from rich Hamburgh Thy threat’nings, Lord, as thine, thou may't sent, revoke;

His navy's molted wings he imps once more. But if immutable and fix'd they ftand,

Dryden. Continue still thyself to give the stroke,

New creatures rise And let not foreigo foes opprefs tby larid. A moving mass at first, and short of thighs ;

Dryden. 'Till footing out with legs, and imp'd with * IMMUTABLY. adv. (from immutable.) Un- wings, alterably; invariably; unchangeably.--His love is The grubs proceed to bees with pointed Atings. like his effence, immutably eternal. Boyle.

Dryden. (1.) IMOLA, a populous diftri& of Italy in the The Mercury of heav'n, with filver wings department of Reno. The number of its citizens Impt for the fight to overtake his ghoft. Soutb. were, in 1801, reckoned 116,728.

IMPACH, a town of Austria, 6 miles W. from (2.) IMOLA, a city of Italy, in the ci-devant Crems. province of Romagna, capital of the above dif- IMPACT. n. f. the fimple action of one body, trict, (N° 1.) anciently called Forum Cornelii. upon another, to put in motion, The point of (See FORUM, Q.V. NO.3.). By the former di- impad is the point where the body acts. vifion of the republic in 1797, it was included in * T. IMPACT. v. a. (impa&tus, Lat.) To drive the dep. of the Amone. It is feated on an island close or hard. They are angular; but of what formed by the Santerno; is strongly fortified with particular figure is not easy to determine, because walls; turrets, and ditches; and has an ancient of their being impacted so thick and confusedly tocaftle, with a cathedral and is churches. On the gether. Woodward on Fofils. IIth Feb. 1797, a rebellion was quelled in this * TO IMPAINT. v.a. Lin and paint.] To paint; town, and the papal army defeated, by the French to decorate with colours. Not in use. under Gen. Bonaparte, affifted by the Legion of Never yet did insurrection want Lombardy, wbo (lays Dr Oppenbeim, in his Geog. Such water colours to impaint his cause. Shak.

• IMPAIR.

• IMPAIR. n. S. (from the verb.) Diminution ; The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill decrease. Not ufed.--A loadstone, kept in un- Of bliss on bliss.

Milton's Par. Loft. due position, that is, not laying on the meridian, * IMPARITY. n. f. [imparitas, impar, Latin.] or with its poles inverted, receives in longer time 1. Inequality; disproportion.-Some bodies are impair in a&ivity and exchange of faces, and is hard, fome foft : the hardness is caused chicfly by more powerfully preserved by fite than duft of the jejuneness of the spirits, and their imparity steel. Brown.

with the tangible parts. 2. Oddness ; indivifibi(1.) * TO IMPAIR.D. a. (empirer, to make worse, lity into equal parts - What verity is there in Fr. Skinn.) To diminifh; to injure; to make worse; that numeral conceit, in the lateral division of to lessen in quantity, value, or excellence. To man, by even and odd; and so by parity or impachange any such law, muft needs, with the com- rity of letters in men's names, to determine mismón Tort, impair and weaken the force of those, fortunes on either fide of their bodies? Brown. grounds whereby all laws are made effectual. TO IMPARK. v. a. (in and park.) To inclose Hooker.

with a park; to sever from a common. Objects divine

IMPARLANCE, n. f. in law, a petition in court Muft needs impair, and weary human fense. for a day to consider or advise what answer the

Milton. defendant shall make to the plaintiff's action; and That soon refresh'd him weary'd, and repair’d is the continuance of the cause till another day, or What kunger, if aught hunger had impair’d, a longer time given by the court. · Or thirst.

Milion. * TO IMPART. v. a. (impartior, Lat.). 1. To Nor was the work impair'd by storms alone, grant; to give. But felt th’approaches of too warm a sun. Pope. High ftate and honours to others impart, In years he seem'd, but not impair'd by years. But give me your heart.

Dryden. Pope. 2. To make known; to show by words or tokens. (2.) * TO IMPAIR. V. n. To be leflered or worn

Gentle lady, out.

When first I did impart my love to you,
Flesh may impair, quoth he; but reason can I freely told you, all the wealth I had
repair.
Fairy Queen. Ran in my veins.

Shakep IMPAIRMENT. n. f. (from impair.) Dimi. -As in conte Nion the revealing is for the ease of nution ; injury.-His poiterity, at this dirance, a man's heart, fo fecret men come to the knowand after lo perpetual impairment, cannot but ledge of many things, while men rather discharge condemn the poverty of Adam's conception, that than impart their minds. Bacon.thought to obfcure himself from his Creator in

Thou to me thy thoughts the shade of the garden. Brown's Vu žar Erreurs. Waft wont, I mine to thee was wont t' impart. (1.) T. IMPALE. See To EMPALE.

Milton. (3.) TO IMPALE cities, camps, fortifications, &c. 3. To communicate; to grant as to a partaker.is to inclose them with pallisadoes.

I find thee knowing of thyself; (3.) TO IMPALE, in heraldry, is to conjoin two Expressing well the spirit within thee free, coats of arms pale-wise. Women impale their My image, not im'arted to the bruté. Milton, coats of arms with those of their hufbands. See * IMPARTIAL. adj. [impartial, Fr. in and parHERALDRY, Chap. VI.

tial.] Equitable; free from regard to party; inIMPALEMENT. See EMPALEMENT. different, disinterefted ; equal in distribution of * IMPALPABLE. adj. (impalpable, Fr. in and justice; just

. It is used as well of actions as perpalpable.] Not to be perceived by touch. If sons: an impartiul judge ; an impartial sentence. beaten into an impalpable powder, when poured Success I hope, and fate I cannot fear : out, it will emulate a liquor, by reason that the Alive or dead, I thall deserve a name; finallness of the parts do make them easy to be Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryd. put into motion. Boyle.

* IMPARTIALITY. n. f. (impartiolité, Fr. IMPANATION, a term used by divines to fig- from impartial.] Equitableness; justice.; indiffernity the opinion of the Lutherans with regard to ence.-A pious and well disposed will gives not the eucharist, who believe that the species of bread only diligence, but also impartiality, to the underand wine temain together with the body of our standing in its search into religion, which is abfoSaviour after confecration.

lutely necessary to give success unto cur inquiries IMPANNELLING, a word applied to the petty into truth; it being fcarce posible for that man juries in England, appointed for the trial of cri- to hit the mark, whose eye is fill glancing upon minal causes. See EMPANNEL, and LAW, Part. II. something beside it. South. Cbap. IV. xxvii.

* IMPARTIALLY. adv. (from impartial.] TO IMPARADISE. v. a. (imparadisure, Ital.] Equitably; with indifferent and unbiased judga To put in a place or state resembling paradise in ment; without regard to party or interest; juftly; feliciny.This imparadifed neighbourhood made honestly. Since the Scripture proinises eternal Zelmane's foul cleare uoto her, both through the happiness and pardon of in, upon the sole conivory case of her body, and the apparel which did dition of faith and fincere obedience, it is evident, over-cloud it. Şidney:

that he only can picad a title to such a pardon, All my souls be

whose conscience impartially tells him thai he bas Imparadis'd in you, in whom alone

performed the required condition. South. I understand, and grow, and see. Donnie. * IMPARTIBLE. adj. [impurrible, Fr. from ina Thus

part.] Communicable to be confurred or beltowImparadis'd in one another's arms,

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*IMPAIR. . f. [from the verb.] Diminution; decrease. Not ufed.-A loadstone, kept in undue pofition, that is, not laying on the meridian, or with its poles inverted, receives in longer time impair in activity and exchange of faces, and is more powerfully preferved by fite than duft of feel. Brown.

(1.) To IMPAIR. v. a. [empirer, to make worse, Fr. Skinn.] To diminish; to injure; to make worfe; to leffen in quantity, value, or excellence. To change any fuch law, must needs, with the commen fort, impair and weaken the force of thofe grounds whereby all laws are made effectual. Hooker

Objects divine

Muft needs impair, and weary human fenfe.
Milton.
That foon refresh'd him weary'd, and repair'd
What hunger, if aught hunger had impair'd,
Milton.
Or thirst.
Not was the work impair'd by storms alone,
But felt th' approaches of too warm a fun. Pope.
In years he feem'd, but not impair'd by years.
Pope.
(1.) To IMPAIR. v. n. To be leffened or worn

The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill
Of blifs on blifs.

Milton's Par. Loft.

* IMPARITY. n. f. [imparitas, impar, Latin.] 1. Inequality; difproportion.-Some bodies are hard, fome foft: the hardness is caufed chicfly by the jejuneness of the fpirits, and their imparity with the tangible parts. 2. Oddnefs; indivifibility into equal parts-What verity is there in that numeral conceit, in the lateral divifion of man, by even and odd; and fo by parity or imparity of letters in men's names, to determine misFortunes on either fide of their bodies? Brown.

To IMPARK. v. a. [in and park.] To inclofe with a park; to fever from a common.

IMPARLANCE, n. /. in law, a petition in court for a day to confider or advise what answer the defendant shall make to the plaintiff's action; and is the continuance of the caufe till another day, or a longer time given by the court. * To IMPART. v. a. [impartior, Lat.] 1. To grant ; to give.→

High ftate and honours to others impart,
But give me your heart.

Dryden. 2. To make known; to fhow by words or tokens. Gentle lady,

Shake

When firft I did impart my love to you, I freely told you, all the wealth I had Felh may impair, quoth he; but reafon can Fairy Queen. Ran in my veins. repair. IMPAIRMENT. n. f. (from impair.] Dimi--As in confeflion the revealing is for the cafe of mation; injury-His poterity, at this dittance, a man's heart, fo fecret men come to the knowand after fo perpetual impairment, cannot but ledge of many things, while men rather discharge condemn the poverty of Adam's conception, that than impart their minds. Bacon.thought to obfcure himfelf from his Creator in the fhade of the garden. Brown's Vulgar Errours. (1.) To IMPALE. See To EMPALE. (.) To IMPALE cities, camps, fortifications, &c. is to inclose them with pallifadoes.

(3) To IMPALE, in heraldry, is to conjoin two coats of arms pale-wife. Women impale their coats of arms with those of their husbands. See HERALDRY, Chap. VI.

IMPALEMENT. See EMPALEMENT. IMPALPABLE. adj. [impalpable, Fr. in and ppable. Not to be perceived by touch.-If beaten into an impalpable powder, when poured , it will emulate a liquor, by reason that the Inaliness of the parts do make them easy to be put into motion. Boyle.

IMPANATION, a term used by divines to figsify the opinion of the Lutherans with regard to the eucharift, who believe that the species of bread and wine remain together with the body of our Saviour after confecration.

IMPANNELLING, a word applied to the petty juries in England, appointed for the trial of crial caufes. See EMPANNEL, and Law, Part. II. Chap. IV. § xxvii.

TIMPARADISE. v. a. (imparadifare, Ital.] To put in a place or ftate refembling paradife in Scity-This imparadifed neighbourhood made Zelmane's foul cleave unto her, both through the ivory cafe of her body, and the apparel which did over-cloud it. Sidney.—

All my fouls be

Imparadis'd in you, in whom alone
I understand, and grow, and fee.

Thus these two,
Imparadis’d in one another's arms,
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Donne.

Thou to me thy thoughts

Waft wont, I mine to thee was wont t' impart. Milton. 3. To communicate; to grant as to a partaker.I find thee knowing of thyself; Expreffing well the fpirit within thee free, My image, not imparted to the brute. Milton. * ÍMPARTIAL. adj. [impartial, Fr. in and partial Equitable; free from regard to party; indifferent difinterefted; equal in diftribution of juftice; juft. It is ufed as well of actions as perfons: an impartial judge; an impartial sentence.

Succefs hope, and fate I cannot fear : Alive or dead, I thall deferve a name; Jove is impartial, and to both the fame. Dryd. * IMPARTIALITY. n. f. [impartialité, Fr. from impartial.] Equitablenefs; juftice; indifference.-A pious and well difpofed will gives not only diligence, but alfo impartiality, to the understanding in its fearch into religion, which is abfolutely neceffary to give fuccefs unto our inquiries into truth; it being fearce poffible for that man to hit the mark, whofe eye is fill glancing upon fomething befide it. South.

IMPARTIALLY. adv. (from impartial.] Equitably; with indifferent and unbiafled judg ment; without regard to party or intereft; juftly honeftly.--Since the Scripture promifes eternal happiness and pardon of fin, upon the fole condition of faith and fincere obedience, it is evident, that he only can plead a title to such a pardon, whofe confcience impartially tells him that he has performed the required condition. South

IMPARTIBLE. adj. [impartible, Fr. fromimpart.] Communicable; to be conferred or bettowed. This word is elegant, though ufed by few writers.

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