} er. * IMMARCESSIBLE. adj. [in and marcesco, ed upon a falfe account, that the passages were do Latin.) Unfading. Di&. better fortified than Drake had left them, Bacon. * IMMARTIAL. adj. [in and martial.] Not This is your time for faction and debate, warlike. For partial favour, and permitted hate : Let now your immature diffenfion cease, Dryden. * TO IMMASK. v. a. (in and mak.] To co- 3. Hafty; early; come to pass before the natural ver; to disguise. I have cases of buckram for the time.- We are pleased, and call not that death nonce, to immask our noted outward garments. immature, if a man lives 'till feventy, Taylor's Shakespeare's Henry IV. Rule of living boly. * IMMATERIAL. adj. (immateriel, Fr. in and * IMMATUŘELY. adv. (from immature.] materia, Lat.] 1. Incorporeal; diftinct from mat. Too soon; too early ; before ripeness or completer; void of matter.-Angels are spirits immate- tion. rial and intellectual, the glorious inhabitants of * IMMATURENESS. n. (from immature.] those sacred palaces, where there is nothing but * IMMATURITY. Unripeness; incomlight and immortality; no fhadow of matter for pleteness ; a ftate short of completion.--I might tears, discontentments, griefs, and uncomfortable reasonably expect a pardon from the ingenuous for passions to work upon; but all joy, tranquillity, faults committed in an immaturity of age and and peace, even for ever and ever, do dwell. Hook- judgment. Glanville. * IMMEABILITY. n. S. [immeabilis, Latin.] As then the soul a subftance hath alone, Want of power to pass. So it is used in the exBesides the body, in which she is confin'd; ample; but it is rather, incapability of affording So hath she not a body of her own, passage.-From this phlegm proceed white cold But is a spirit and immaterial mind. Davies. tumours, viscidity, and consequently immeability Those immaterial felicities we expect, fuggeft of the juices. Arbuthnot. the necessity of preparing our appetites, without * IMMEASURABLE. adj. [in and measure.] whick heaven can be no heaven to us. Decay of Immenfe; not to be measured; indefinitely exPiety.-No man that owns the existence of an in- tensive.-Churches reared up to an height immeafinite spirit can doubt of the possibility of a finite furable, and adorned with far more beauty in their spirit; that is, such a thing as is immaterial, and restoration than their founders before had given does not contain any principle of corruption. Til them, Hooker.lotfon. 2. Unimportant; without weight; imper. From the shore tinent; without relation. This sense has crept in- They view'd the vast immeasurable abyss, to the conversation and writings of barbarians , Outrageous as a fea, dark, wasteful, wild. Milt, but ought to be utterly rejected. Immeafurable strength they might behold (1.)*IMMATERIALITY. n. f. [from immateri. In me, of wisdom nothing more than mean alj Incorporeity; diftinctness from body or mat. Milton. ter.-When we know cogitation is the prime at- –What a glorious shew are those beings entertribute of a spirit, we infer its immateriality, and tained with, that can see such tremendous objects thence its immortality. Watts. wandering through those immeasurable depths of (2.) IMMATERIALITY. See METAPHYSICS. ether! Addifon's Guardian. * ÍMMATERIALIZED. adj. [from in and Nor friends are there, nor vessels to convey, materia, Latin.) Diftinct from matter ; incorpo. Nor oars to cut th' immeasurable way. Pope, real.-Though assiduity in the most fixed cogita. * IMMEASURABLY. adv. [from immeafur. tion be no trouble to immaterialized spirits, yet it able.} Immenfely ; beyond all meafure.-The is more than our imbodied souls can bear without Spaniards immeasurably bewail their dead. Spenlaffitude. Glanville's Scepfis. fer. * IMMATERIALLY. adv. (from immaterial.] There ye shall be fed, and fill'd In a manner not depending upon matter.---The Immeasurably; all things shall be your prey. Milt. visible species of things strike not our senses imma- * IMMECHANICAL. adj. (in and mechanical.] terially; but streaming in corporal rays do carry Not according to the laws of mechanics.-We with them the qualities of the object from whence have nothing to do to show any thing that is im. they flow, and the medium through which they mechanical, or not according to the eftablished pass. Brown's Vulgar Errours. laws of nature. Cheyne.- Nothing will clear a head * IMMATERIALNESS. n. f. (from immaterie possessed with immechanical notions. Mead. al.) Dilinctness from matter. * IMMEDIACY. n. f. [from immediate.] Per. IMMATERIATE. adj. [in and materia, La- fonal greatness ; power of acting without depentin.] Not confifting of matter; incorporeal; want. dance. This is a harsh word, and sense peculiar, ing body. It is a virtue which may be called in. I believe, to Sbakspeare. corporeal and immateriate, whereof there be in He led our pow'rs, nature but few. Bacon. After a long enquiry of Before the commission of my place and person, things immerse in matter, I interpose fome object The which immediacy may well stand up, which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as And call itself your brother. Shak. King Lear. this of sounds. Bacon. * IMMEDIATE. adj. [immediat, French ; in * IMMATURE. adj. (immaturus, Latin.] s.' and medius, Latin.] 1. Being in such a state with Not ripe... 2, Not perfect; not arrived at fulness respect to something else as that there is nothing or completion. The land enterprise of Panama' between them; proximate; with nothing interwas an ill measured and immature counsel, ground. vening.-Moses mentions the immediate causes of the M Μ the deluge, the rains and the waters; and St Pe. * IMMENSELY. adv. (from immense.} In. ter mentions the more remote and fundamental finitely ; without measure. We fhall find that causes, that conftitution of the heavens. Burnet. the void space of our fyftem is immensely bigger 2. Not acting by second causes. It is much to be than all its corporeal mass. Bentley. afcribed to the immediate will of God, who giveth 11.) * IMMENSITY. n. fi (immenfité, French.) and taketh away beauty at his pleasure. Abbot. Unbounded greatness; infinity.-By the power 3. Joftant; prefent with regard to time. Prior. we find in ourselves of repeating, as often as we Therefore should not have written more immedi- will, any idea of space, we get the idea of imate. menfity. Lockes-He that will consider the immen. Immediate are my needs, and my relief fity of this fabric, and the great variety that is to Must not be tost and turn'd to me in words, be found in this inconfiderable part of it which he But find supply immediate. Shak. Timon. has to do with, may think that in other manfions Death denounc'd that day, of it there may be other and different intelligent Which he presumes already vain, and void, beings. Locke. Because not yet inflicted, as he fear'd, All these illustrious worlds, By fome immediate Atroke. Milton's Par. Lof. And millions which the glass can ne'er defery, But she, howe'er of vi&t'ry sure, Loft in the wilds of vaft immenfty, Contemns the wreath too long delay'd; Are funs, are centers. Blackmore's Creation. And arm'd with more immediate pow'r, (2.) IMMENSITY, is more properly defined unCalls cruel filence to her aid. Prior. limited extension. * IMMEDIATELY. adv. (from immediate.] IMMENSURABILITY, n. S. (from immens. Without the intervention of any other cause or surable.} Impossibility to be meafured. event.-God's acceptance of it, either immediately * IMMENSURABLE. adj. (in and menfurabiby himself, or mediately by the hands of the lis, Latin.) Not to be measured. bishop, is that which vefts the whole property of IMMER, the most eafterly of the New Hebri. a thing in God. South. 2. 'Instantly ; at the time des. It lies about 12 miles from Tanna, and present; without delay. seems to be about 15 in circumference. It is of a Her father hath commanded her to Nip confiderable height, and has a flat top. Away with Slender, and with him at Eton IMMERETTA. See IMERETIA. Immediately to marry. Shakespeare. * TO IMMERGE. v. a. [immergo, Latin.] * IMMEDIATENÉSS. n. S. (from immediate.) To put under water, I. Presence with regard to time. 2. Exemption * IMMERIT. *. f immerito, Lat.) Want of from fecond or intervening causes.' worth; want of defert. This is a better word * IMMEDICABLE. adj. [immedicabilis, Lat.] than demerit, which is now used in its stead. Not to be bealed; incurable. -When I receive your lines, and find there exMy griefs ferment and rage, pressions of a passion, reason and my own immerit Nor less than wounds immedicable, tell me it must not be so for me. Suckling. Rankle and fefter, and gangrene IMMERITIA, See IMERETIA. To black mortification. Milton's Agon. * IMMERSE. adj. (immerfus, Latin.) Buried; * IMMEMORABLE. adj. [immemorabilis, La- covered ; funk deep.-After long inquiry of things tio.) Not worth remembering. immerse in matter, I interpose fome object which (1.) * IMMEMORIAL. adj. (immemorial, Fr. is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of in and memoria, Latin.) Pat time of memory; founds, that the intellect may become not partial. so ancient that the beginning cannot be traced. - Bacon. All the laws of this kingdom have some memori- * To IMMERSE. V. a. [immerfus, Latin.] 1. als in writing, yet all have not their original in To put under water. 2. To fink or cover deep, writing; for some obtained their force by imme He stood morial usage or custom. Hale.--By a long imme- More than a mile immers'd within the wood; morial practice, and prescription of an aged tho. At once the wind was laid. Dryden. rough-paced hypocrisy, they come to believe that -They observed that they were immersed in their for a reality, which, at first practice of it, they rocks, quarries, and mines, in the fame manner themselves knew to be a cheat. South. as they are at this day found in all known parts of (2.) IMMEMORIAL, in English law, is applied to the world. Woodward. 3. To keep in a state of any thing that was before the reign of Edward II. intellectual depreffion. It is a melancholy reflecIMMENDORF, a town of Auftria. tion, that our country, which, in times of popery, IMMENHAUSEN, a town of Hesse Caffel, 8 was called the nation of faints, should now have miles NNW. of Caffel. Lon. 26. 52. E, of Ferro. . less appearance of religion in it than any other Lat. 3. 19. N. neighbouring state or kingdom; whether they be * IMMENSE. adj. [immenfe, Fr. immenfus, such as continue ftill immersed in the errors of Lat.] Unlimited; unbounded; infinite.- the church of Rome, or such as are recovered out O goodness infinite! goodness immense! of them. Addison's Freebolder. We are prone to That all this good of evil shall produce ! Milton. engage ourselves with the business, the pleasures, - As infinite duration hath no relation unto mo- and the amufements of this world: we give our. tion and time, so infinite or immense effence hath felves up too greedily to the pursuit, and ienmerse no relation unto body; but is a thing distinct from ourfelves too deeply in the enjoyments of them. all corporeal magnitude, which we mean when we Atterburg.-It is impossible to have a lively hope fpeak of immenfity, and of God as of an immense in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the being. Grew. enjoyments of this. Atterbury. (1.) * IMMERSION. IMMARCESSIBLE. adj. [in and marcefco, ed upon a falfe account, that the paffages were no Latin.] Unfading. Dia. * IMMARTIAL. adj. [in and martial.] Not warlike. My powers are unfit, Myself immartial. Chapman's Caffey. *To IMMASK. v. a. [in and mask.] To cover; to disguife.-I have cafes of buckram for the nonce, to immask our noted outward garments. Shakespeare's Henry IV. * IMMATERIAL. adj. [immateriel, Fr. in and materia, Lat.] 1. Incorporeal; diftinct from matter; void of matter.-Angels are fpirits immaterial and intellectual, the glorious inhabitants of thofe facred palaces, where there is nothing but light and immortality; no fhadow of matter for tears, difcontentments, griefs, and uncomfortable paffions to work upon; but all joy, tranquillity, and peace, even for ever and ever, do dwell. Hook er. As then the foul a fubftance hath alone, Befides the body, in which she is confin'd; So hath the not a body of her own, But is a spirit and immaterial mind. Davies. -Those immaterial felicities we expect, fuggeft the neceffity of preparing our appetites, without which heaven can be no heaven to us. Decay of Piety. No man that owns the exiftence of an infinite spirit can doubt of the poffibility of a finite fpirit; that is, fuch a thing as is immaterial, and does not contain any principle of corruption. Til lotfon. 2. Unimportant; without weight; impertinent; without relation. This fenfe has crept into the converfation and writings of barbarians; but ought to be utterly rejected. (1.)*IMMATERIALITY. n. /. [from immaterialj Incorporeity; diftinctnefs from body or matter.-When we know cogitation is the prime attribute of a spirit, we infer its immateriality, and thence its immortality. Watts. (2.) IMMATERIALITY. See METAPHYSICS. * IMMATERIALIZED. adj. [from in and materia, Latin.] Diftin&t from matter; incorporeal. Though affiduity in the moft fixed cogitation be no trouble to immaterialized spirits, yet it is more than our imbodied fouls can bear without laffitude. Glanville's Scepfis. * IMMATERIALLY. adv. [from immaterial.] In a manner not depending upon matter.--The vifible fpecies of things ftrike not our senses immaterially; but ftreaming in corporal rays do carry with them the qualities of the object from whence they flow, and the medium through which they pafs. Brown's Vulgar Errour's. * IMMATERIALNESS. ». f. [from immaterial.] Diftinctness from matter. IMMATERIATE. adj. [in and materia, La tin.] Not confifting of matter; incorporeal; want. ing body. It is a virtue which may be called incorporeal and immateriate, whereof there be in nature but few. Bacon.-After a long enquiry of things immerse in matter, I interpofe fome object which is immateriate, or less materiate; fuch as this of founds. Bacon. * IMMATURE. adj. [immaturus, Latin.] 1. Not ripe. 2, Not perfect; not arrived at fulness or completion. The land enterprise of Panama was an ill measured and immature counsel, ground better fortified than Drake had left them, Bacon. Dryden. 3. Hafty; early; come to pafs before the natural time.-We are pleased, and call not that death immature, if a man lives 'till feventy. Taylor's Rule of living holy. * IMMATURELY. adv. [from immature.] Too foon; too early; before ripeness or completion. ***IMMATURENESS.) n.. [from immature.] * IMMATURITY. Unripeness; incompletenefs; a ftate fhort of completion.-I might reasonably expect a pardon from the ingenuous for faults committed in an immaturity of age and judgment. Glanville. *IMMEABILITY. n. [immeabilis, Latin.] Want of power to pafs. So it is ufed in the example; but it is rather, incapability of affording paffage. From this phlegm proceed white cold tumours, vifcidity, and confequently immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot. * IMMEASURABLE. adj. [in and measure. Immenfe; not to be measured; indefinitely extenfive.-Churches reared up to an height immeafurable, and adorned with far more beauty in their reftoration than their founders before had giver them. Hooker. From the fhore They view'd the vaft immeasurable abyfs, Outrageous as a fea, dark, wafteful, wild. 'Milt Immeasurable ftrength they might behold In me, of wifdom nothing more than mean Milton -What a glorious fhew are thofe beings enter tained with, that can fee fuch tremendous object wandering through those immeasurable depths ether! Addifon's Guardian. Pop Nor friends are there, nor veffels to convey Nor oars to cut th' immeasurable way. * IMMEASURABLY. adv. [from immeafur able.] Immenfely; beyond all meafure.-Th Spaniards immeafurably bewail their dead. Spen fer. There ye fhall be fed, and fill'd Immeasurably; all things fhall be your prey. Mil * IMMECHANICAL. adj. [in and mechanical Not according to the laws of mechanics.-W have nothing to do to show any thing that is im mechanical, or not according to the establishe laws of nature. Cheyne.-Nothing will clear a hea poffeffed with immechanical notions. Mead. * IMMEDIACY. n. f. [from immediate.] Per fonal greatnefs; power of acting without deper dance. This is a harsh word, and fenfe peculiar I believe, to Shakspeare. He led our pow'rs, Before the commiffion of my place and perfor The which immediacy may well ftand up, And call itself your brother. Shak. King Lear *IMMEDIATE. adj. [immediat, French; and medius, Latin.] 1. Being in fuch a ftate wit respect to fomething elfe as that there is nothin between them; proximate; with nothing inte vening.-Mofes mentions the immediate caufes th the deluge, the rains and the waters; and St Peter mentions the more remote and fundamental caufes, that conftitution of the heavens. Burnet. 2. Not acting by fecond caufes. It is much to be afcribed to the immediate will of God, who giveth and taketh away beauty at his pleasure. Abbot. 3. Inftant; prefent with regard to time. Prior. Therefore thould not have written more immedi ate. Immediate are my needs, and my relief Death denounc'd that day, By fome immediate stroke. Milton's Par. Loft. Prior. * IMMEDIATELY. adv. [from immediate.] 1. Without the intervention of any other caufe or event-God's acceptance of it, either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop, is that which vefts the whole property of a thing in God. South. 2. Inftantly; at the time prefent; without delay.— Her father hath commanded her to flip Away with Slender, and with him at Eton Immediately to marry. Shakespeare. *IMMEDIATENESS. n. f. [from immediate.] 1. Prefence with regard to time. 2. Exemption from fecond or intervening causes. IMMEDICABLE. adj. [immedicabilis, Lat.] Not to be healed; incurable. My griefs ferment and rage, Nor lefs than wounds immedicable, Rankle and fefter, and gangrene To black mortification. Milton's Agon. *IMMEMORABLE. adj. [immemorabilis, Latin.] Not worth remembering. (1.) * IMMEMORIAL. adj. [immemorial, Fr. in and memoria, Latin.] Paft time of memory; fo ancient that the beginning cannot be traced. All the laws of this kingdom have fome memorials in writing, yet all have not their original in writing; for fome obtained their force by immemarial ufage or cuftom. Hale.-By a long immemorial practice, and prefcription of an aged thorough-paced hypocrify, they come to believe that for a reality, which, at firft practice of it, they themfelves knew to be a cheat. South. * IMMENSELY. adv. [from immense.] In. finitely; without measure. We fhall find that the void space of our fyftem is immensely bigger than all its corporeal mafs. Bentley. (1.)* IMMENSITY. n. f. [immenfité, French.] Unbounded greatnefs; infinity. By the power we find in ourselves of repeating, as often as we will, any idea of space, we get the idea of immenfity. Locke-He that will confider the immens fity of this fabric, and the great variety that is to be found in this inconfiderable 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. All thefe illuftrious worlds, And millions which the glafs can ne'er defcry, Loft in the wilds of vaft immenfity, Are funs, are centers. Blackmore's Creation. (2.) IMMENSITY, is more properly defined unlimited extenfion. * IMMENSURABILITY. n. s. [from immenfurable.] Impoffibility to be measured. * IMMENSURABLE. adj. [in and menfurabilis, Latin.] Not to be measured. IMMER, the most easterly of the New Hebrides. It lies about 12 miles from TANNA, and feems to be about 15 in circumference. It is of a confiderable height, and has a flat top. IMMERETTA. See IMERETIA. * To IMMERGE. v. a. [immergo, Latin.] To put under water. IMMERIT. n. f. [immerito, Lat.] Want of worth; want of defert. This is a better word than demerit, which is now used in its ftead. -When I receive your lines, and find there expreffions of a paffion, reason and my own immerit tell me it must not be fo for me. Suckling. IMMERITIA. See IMERETIA. * IMMERSE. adj. [immerfus, Latin.] Buried; covered; funk deep.-After long inquiry of things immerfe in matter, I interpofe fome object which is immateriate, or lefs materiate; fuch as this of founds, that the intellect may become not partial. Bacon. (2.) IMMEMORIAL, in English law, is applied to any thing that was before the reign of Edward II. IMMENDORF, a town of Auftria. IMMENHAUSEN, a town of Heffe Caffel, 8 miles NNW. of Caffel. Lon. 26. 52. E. of Ferro. Lat. 5. 15. N. IMMENSE. adj. [immenfe, Fr. immenfus, Lat.] Unlimited; unbounded; infinite. O goodness infinite! goodness immenfe! That all this good of evil fhall produce! Milton. -As infinite duration hath no relation unto motion and time, fo infinite or immenfe effence hath to relation unto body; but is a thing dinct from all corporeal magnitude, which we mean when we fpeak of immenfity, and of God as of an immenfe being, Grew. *To IMMERSE. v. a. [immerfus, Latin.] 1. To put under water. 2. To fink or cover deep. He ftood More than a mile immers'd within the wood; At once the wind was laid. Dryden. They obferved that they were immersed in their rocks, quarries, and mines, in the fame manner as they are at this day found in all known parts of the world. Woodward. 3. To keep in a state of intellectual depreffion.-It is a melancholy reflection, that our country, which, in times of popery, was called the nation of faints, fhould now have lefs appearance of religion in it than any other neighbouring state or kingdom; whether they be fuch as continue ftill immersed in the errors of the church of Rome, or fuch as are recovered out of them. Addifon's Freeholder.-We are prone to engage ourselves with the bufinefs, the pleasures, and the amufements of this world: we give ourfelves up too greedily to the pursuit, and immerse ourselves too deeply in the enjoyments of them. Atterbury.-It is impoffible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this. Atterbury. (1.) IMMERSION. (1.) IMMERSION. a. f. (immerfo, Latin; Emmerson, French. 1. The act of putting any body into a fluid below the furface. Achilles's abuther it faid to have dipped him, when he was a cond, it the river Styx, which made him invulserauie all over, excepting that part which the mother bed at her had during this immerhon. beaje. 2. The fate of finking below the furface of a Buid. 3. The ftate of being overwhelmed or loft in any respect-Many perfons, who, througs the beat of their lefts and paffions, turouge the contagion of ili example, or too deep at immofon in the affairs of life, fwerve from the ruins of their boly faith; yer would, epon extra orditary warning, be brought to comply with turto, Atterburg, (2) IMMERSION, in aftronomy, is when a ftar or planet is fu scar the fun with regard to our obbervations, that we cannot fee it; being, as it were, inveloped and hid in the rays of that lumimary. It a fu denotes the beginning of an eclipse of the moon or that moment when the moon begins to be darkened, and to enter into the fhadow of the carb. (3) IMMERSION, in chemistry, is a fpecies of calcination, when any body is immerfed in a fluid to be corroded : or it is a fpecies of lotion; as when a fubstance is plunged into any fluid, to deprive it of a bad quality, or communicate to it a good one. *IMMETHODICAL, adj. (in and methodical.] Confuled; being without regularity; being with out method.-M. Bayle compares the answering of an immethodical author to the nunting of a duck: when you have him full in your fight, he gives you the flip, and becomes invifible. Addifon. * IMMÉTHODICALLY adv. [from immethedical] Without method; without order. IMMIER, ST, a town of the Helvetic republic in the late canton of Bafle; 20 miles W. of Soleure and 31 SW of Bafle. * IMMINENCE. n. f. [from imminent.] Any ill impending; immediate or near danger. A word not in ufe.] I do not speak of flight, of fear, of death; But dare all imminence, that gods and men Addrefs their dangers in. Shak. * IMMINENT. adj. [imminent, Fr. imminens, Lat. Impending; at hand; threatening. Always in an ill fenfe.-What dangers at any time are imminent, what evils hang over our heads, God doth know, and not we. Hooker. Three times to-day Some of us, like thee, through ftormy life IMMINUTION. z. /. [from imminuo, Ĺat.] Diminution; decreale.-Thele 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 overfee and fecure them from all alteration or smmination. Ray on the Creation. * IMMISCIBILITY. s. f. tfrom immiscible.) Incapacity of being mingled. * IMMISCIBLE. adj. (iz and miscible.} Not capable of being mingied. Clarifa. IMMISSION. *. J. \mmifio, Latin.] The act of fending in; contrary to emiffion.* To IMMIT. a. (immitto, Lat.) To send in. To IMMIX. v. a. [ and mix.) To mingle. Samion, with these immixt, inevitably Pull'd down the fame deftruction on himself. Milton. IMMIXABLE. adj. (in and mix.] Impoffible to be mingled. Fill a glafs fphere with fuch liquors as may be clear, of the fame colour, and immixable. Wilkies. IMMOBILITY. n. f. jimmobilité, French, from immobilis, Latin.] Unmoveablenefs; want of motion; refiftance to motion.-The courfe of fluids through the vascular folids muft in time harden the fibres, and abolith many of the canals; from whence drynefs, weakness, immobility, and debility of the vital force. Arbuthnot. • IMMODERATE. adj. (immoderé, French, immoderatus, Latin] Excelfive; exceeding the due mean.-One means, very effectual for the prefervation of health, is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent paffions, or dif tracted with immoderate cares. Ray on the Creation. IMMODERATELY. adv. [from immoderate.] In an exceffive degree.— Immoderately fhe weeps for Tybalt's death. Shak. -The heat weakened more and more the arch of the earth, fucking out the moisture that was the cement of its parts, drying it immoderately, and chapping it. Burnet. * IMMODERATION. n. f. [immoderation, Fr. from immoderate.] Want of moderation; cxcefs. * IMMODEST. adj. [immodefte, Fr. in and modeft.] 1. Wanting fhame; wanting delicacy or chaftity. She railed at herself, that the fhould be fo immodeft to write to one that the knew would flout her. Shak. 2. Unchafte; impure; Immodeft deeds you hinder to be wrought; But we profcribe the least immodeft thought. Dryden, 3. Obfcene. |