He is an imperious dictator of the principles of * IMPERTINENCE. n. f. limpertinence, Fr. vice, and impatient of all contradiction. More.- IMPERTINENCY. S from impertinent.] 1. How much I fuffer'd, and how long 1 strove That which is of no present weight; that which Against th' assaults of this imperious love! Dryd. has no relation to the matter in band. --Some, -Recollect what disorder hafty or imperious words though they lead a fingle life, yet their thoughts from parents or teachers have caused in his do end with themselves, and account future times thoughts. Locke. 2. Powerful; afcendant; over- impertinencies. Bacon. 2. Folly; rambling thought. bearing.-A man, by a vast and imperious mind, O, matter and impertinency mixt, .' and a heart large as the fand upon the sea shore, Reason and madness! Sbak. could command all the knowledge of nature and 3. Troublesomeness ; intrusion.-It will be said I art. Tillotfon. handle an art no way suitable to my employments * IMPÉRIOUSLY. adv. (from imperious.] or fortune, and so stand charged with intrufion With arrogance of command; with infolence of and impertinency. Wotton. We should avoid the authority. vexation and impertinence of pedants, who affect Who's there, that knocketh so imperiously? to talk in language not to be understood. Swift. Shak. 4. Trifle; thing of no value.--I envy your felici. --Who can abide, that, against their own doc. ty, delivered from the gilded impertinencies of life, tors, fix whole books should, by their fatherhoods to enjoy the moments of a solid contentment. of Trent, be under pain of a curse, imperiously ob- Evelyn.--Nothing is more easy than to represent truded upon God and his church? Hall...It is as impertinencies any parts of learning, that have not to insult and domineer, to look disdainfully, no immediate relation to the happiness or conveand tevile imperiously, that procures an-esteem nience of mankind. Addison. There are many for any one. South.... subtle impertinencies learnt in the schools, and The fage, transported at th' approaching many painful trifes, even among the mathemahour, tical theorems and problems. Watts. Imperiously, thrice thunder'd on the floor! Garth. (1.) * IMPERTINENT. adj. (impertinent, Fr. * IMPÉRIOUSNESS. n. S. (from imperious.] in and pertinens, Lat.] 1. Of no relation to the 1. Authority; air of command.-So would he matter in hand; of no weight.-The law of anuse his imperiousness, that we had a delightful fear gels we cannot judge altogether impertinent unto and awe, which made us loth to lose our hopes. the affairs of the church of God. Hooker.- The Sidney. 2. Arrogance of command.-Imperiousness contemplation of things that are impertinent to us, and severity is but an ill way of treating men, and do not concern us, are but a more specious who have reason of their own to guide them. idleness. Tillotson. 2. Importunate; intrusive; Locke. meddling. 3. Foolish ; trifling ; negligent of the • IMPERISHABLE. adj. (imperissable, Fr. in present purpose.—'Tis not a lign two lovers are and perifb.) Not to be destroyed, together, when they can be so impertinent as to We find this our empyreal form enquire what the world does. Pope. Incapable of mortal injury, (2.) * IMPERTINENT.n.%. A trifler; a meddler; Imperishable ; and though pierc'd with wound, an intruder; one who enquires or interposes where Soon closing, and by native vigour heal'd. he has no right or call. --Governours would have Milton. enough to do to trouble their heads with the (3.) * IMPERSONAL. adj. (impersonal, Fr. im- politics of every meddling officious impertinent. perfonalis, Lat.) Not varied according to the per. L'Efrange. fons.--Impersonals be declined throughout all moods * IMPERTINENTLY. adv. (from impertinent.) and tenfes, a verb impersonal hath no nominative 1. Without relation to the present matter. 2. case before him. Accidence. Troublesomely; officiously ; intrufively.--I have (2.) IMPERSONAL VERBS, in Latin grammar, are had joy given me as preposterously, and as impertie verbs to which the nominative of any certain per- -nently, as they give it to men who marry where fon cannot be prefixed; or, verbs deftitute of the they do not love. Suckling:- The bleffedest of two firft and primary persons, as decet, oportet, &c. 'mortals, now the highest faint in the celestial hieThe impersonal verbs of the active voice end in rarchy, began to be so impertinently importuned, i, and those of the passive in tur; they are conju. that great part of the liturgy was addressed gated through the third person fingular of almost folely to her. Hooker.-Why will any man be all the tenses and moods: they want the impera- fo impertinently officious as to tell me all this is tive, instead of which the present of the subjunc. only fancy? If it is a dream, let me enjoy it. tive is used; as peniteat, pugnetur, &c. nor, with Addison. a few exceptions, are they to be met with in the * IMPERTRANSIBILITY. n.). (in and per. supines, participles, or gerunds. tranfeo, Lat.] Impossibility to be pafled through. IMPERSONALLY. adv. (from impersonal.] - I willingly declined those many ingenious reaAccording to the manner of an imperfonal verb. fons given by others; as of the impertranfibility of * IMPERSUASIBLE. adj. (in and perfuafibilis, eternity, and impossibility therein to attain to the Lat.] Not to be moved by persuasion.-Every present limit of antecedent ages. Hale. pious person ought to be a Noah, a preacher of * IMPERVIOUS. adj. (imper vius, Lat.) 1. Un. righteousness; and if it be bis fortune to have as paliable; impenetrable.imperfuafble an auditory, if he cannot avert the Left the difficulty of passing back deluge, it will yet deliver his own soul, if he can. Stay his return, perhaps, over this gulf pot benefit other men's. Decay of Piety. Impassable, impervious; let us try TO Roa The king, 'tis true, is noble, but impetuous. * IMPETUOUSLY.adv. [from impetuous.] Vi lently; vehemently: both of men and things. To found a path from hell to that new world. Milton. -We may thence difcern of how close a texture glafs is, fince so very thin a film proved fo impervious to the air, that it was forced to break the glafs to free itself. Boyle.-The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the folid or impervious parts of bodies. Newton.-A great many veffels are, in this state, impervious by the fluids. Arbuthnot. From the damp earth impervious vapours rife, * IMPETIGINOUS. adj. [from impetigo, Lat.] Scurfy; covered with small scabs. IMPETIGO, in medicine, an extreme roughnefs and foulness of the fkin, attended with an itching and plentiful fcurf. It is a fpecies of dry purginous itch, wherein fcales or fcurf fucceed apace; arifing from faline corrofive bumours thrown out upon the exterior parts of the body, by which means the internal parts are ufually relieved. * IMPETRABLE. adj. [im e'rabilis, from impetro, Lát. impetrable. Fr.] Pollible to be obtain ed. Dia." * To IMPETRATE. v. a. [impetrer, Fr. impe tra, Lat.] To obtain by intreaty. Di&. (1.) * IMPETRATIÓN. n s. \imperation, Fr. impetratio, from impetro, Lat.] The act of obtain. ing by prayer or intreaty. Not much ufed. The bleffed facrament is the mystery of the death of Chrift, and the application of his blood, which was fhed for the remiffion of fins, and is the great means of impetration, and the meritorious caufe of it. Taylor. It is the greatest folemnity of prayer, the most powerful liturgy, and means of impetration in this world. Taylor. (2.) IMPETRATION was particularly used in the English ftatues for the pre-obtaining of benefices and church offices in England from the court of Rome, which belonged to the difpofal of the king and other lay patrons of the realm; the penalty whereof is the fame with that of provifors, 25 Edw. III. They view the windings of the hoary Nar Through rocks and woods impetuously he glide While froth and foam the fretting furface hide Addifo * IMPETUOUSNESS. n. f. {from impetuou Violence; fury; vehemence of paffion. I wi all words of rage might vanish in that breath th utters them; that, as they refemble the wind fury and impetuoufnefs, fo they might in tranfien nefs. Decay of Piety. (1.) * IMPETUŠ. n.j. [Latin.] Violent ter dency to any point; violent effort.-Why did no they continue their defcent 'till they were cont guous to the fun, whither both mutual attractio and impetus carried them? Bentley's Sermons. (2.) IMPETUS, in mechanics, is the force wit which one body strikes or impels another. * IMPIERCEABLE. adj. [in and pierce.] In penetrable; not to be pierced. Exceeding rage inflam'd the furious beaft; To keep that oath were more impiety ter. Shak 2. An act of wickedness; expreffion of irreligion In this fenfe it has a plural. If they die unpro vided, no more is the king guilty of those impietic for which they are now vifited. Shak Can Juno fuch impieties apprové? Denban We have a melancholy prospect of the state o our religion; fuch amazing impieties can be equal led by nothing but by thofe cities confumed of ol by fire. Swift. To IMPIGNORATE. v. a. [in and pignus Latin.] To pawn; to pledge. * IMPIGNORATION. n. f. [from impigno rate.] The act of pawning or putting to pledge. *To IMPINGE. v. n. (impingo, Latin.] To fal againft; to strike againft; to clash with.-Thing are referved in the memory by fome corporal ex * IMPETUOSITY. n. f. [impetuofité, Fr. from uviæ and material images, which, having imping impetuous.] Violence; fury; vehemence; force. ed on the common fenfe, rebound thence int -I will fet upon Aguecheek a notable report of fome vacant cells of the brain. Glanville's Scrpfis valour, and drive the gentleman into a most hide--The cause of reflection is not the impinging ous opinion of his rage, fkill, fury, and impetuofity. light on the folid or impervious part of bodie Shakefp. Twelfth Night.-The whole intrigue was Newton's Opticks. contrived by the duke, and fo violently pursued by his fpirit and impetuofity. Clarendon. The mind gives not only licence, but incitation to the other paffions to take their freeft range, and act with the utmost impetuofity. Decay of Piety. * IMPETUOUS. adj. [impetueux. Fr. from impetus, Latin.] 1. Violent; forcible; fierce. Their virtue, like their Tyber's flood, Prior. IMPINGTON, a town 3 m. N. of Cambridge *To IMPINGUATE. v. a. [in and pingui Lat.] To fatten; to make fat-Frictions alfo di more fill and impinguate the body than exercife; fo that in frictions the inward parts are at rest. Bacon * IMPIOUS. adj. [impius, Latin.] Irreligious wicked; profane; without reverence of religion That Scripture flandeth not in the church of Go in any ftead to direct, but may be let país as need lefs to be confulted with, we judge it profane impious, and irreligious to think. HookerCeafe then this impious rage. Then lewd Auchemolus he laid in duft. Milton Whe reafon, hands, and materials, he should build him bridges. Locke. * IMPLANTATION. n. f. [implantation, Fr. from implant.] The act of fetting or planting; the act of enfixing or fettling. * IMPLAUSIBLE. adj. [in and plaufible.] Not fpecious; not likely to feduce or perfuade.--Nothing can better improve political fchool boys than the art of making plaufible or implaufible harangues against the very opinion for which they refolve to determine. Swift. * IMPLEMENT. n. f. [implementum, from impleo, Lat.] 1. Something that fills up a vacancy, or fupplies wants.-Unto life many implements are neceffary; more, if we feek fuch a life as hath in it joy, comfort, delight, and pleasure. Hooker. 2. Inftrument of manufacture; tools of a trade; veffels of a kitchen.-Wood hath coined feventeen thousand pounds, and hath his tools and imple ments to coin fix times as much. Swift.-It is the practice of the eastern regions for the artists in metals to carry about with them the whole imple ments of trade, to the house where they find employment. Brown. *IMPLETION. n. f. [impleo, Latin.] The act of filling; the state of being full.-Theophraftus conceiveth, upon a plentiful impletion, there may fucceed a difruption of the matrix. Brown. *IMPLEX. adj.[implexus, Latin.] Intricate: entangled; complicated; oppofed to fimple. Every poem is either fimple or implex: it is called fimple when there is no change of fortune in it; implex, when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad. Spect. *To IMPLICATE. v. a. [impliquer, Fr. implico, Latin.] To entangle; to embarrass; to involve; to infold.-The ingredients of faltpetre do fo mutually implicate and hinder each other, that the concrete acts but very languidly. Boyle. * IMPLICATION. n. [implicatio, Lat. im plication, French, from implicate.] 1. Involution; entanglement.-Three principal causes of firmness are the groffnefs, the quiet contact, and the implication of the component parts. Boyle. 2. Inference not expreffed, but tacitly inculcated. Though civil caufes, according to fome men, are of lefs moment than criminal, yet the doctors are, by implication, of a different opinion. Ayliffe. *IMPLICIT. adj. [implicite, Fr. implicitus, Latin.] 1. Entangled; infolded; complicated. This fenfe is rare.— In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. The humble fhrub, Pope And bufh with frizzl'd hair implicit. Thomson. 2. Inferred; tacitly comprised; not expreffed.In the first establishments of speech there was an implicit compact, founded upon common confent, that fuch and fuch words should be figns, whereby they would exprefs their thoughts one to another. South.-Our exprefs requests are not granted, but the implicit defires of our hearts are fulfilled. Smalridge. 3. Refting upon another; connected with another, over which that which is connected to it has no power; trufting without referve or examination. Thus by implicit credulity, I may believe a letter not yet opened, when I am confident of the writer's veracity.-There be false E Who ftain'd his ftepdame's bed with impious luft. Dryden. And impious nations fear'd eternal night. Dryd. Shame and reproach is generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. South. When vice prevails, and impious men bear The poft of honour is a private ftation. Addif. On herds devoted to the god of day. * IMPIOUSLY. adv. [from impious.] Profanely; wickedly. The Roman wit, who impiously divides His hero and his gods to different fides, I would condemn. Granville. *IMPLACABILITY. n. f. [from implacable.] Inexorableness; irreconcileable enmity; unappeafible malice. *IMPLACABLE. adj. [implacabilis, Lat. implacable, Fr. Not to be pacified; inexorable; malicious; conftant in enmity.-His incenfement slo implacable, that fatisfaction can be none but by pangs of death. Shakespeare. Darah bears a generous mind; But to implacable revenge inclin'd; A bounteous mafter, but a deadly foe. Dryden. -The French are the moft implacable and the most dangerous enemies of the British nation. Addifon. IMPLACABLY. adv. [from implacable.] 1. With malice not to be pacified; inexorably. An order was made for difarming all the papifts; upon which, though nothing was after done, yet it kept up the apprehenfions in the people of dangers, and difinclined them from the queen, whom they began every day more implacably to hate, and confequently to difoblige. Clarendon. 2. It is once wed by Dryden in a kind of mixed fenfe of a tyat's love. I love, And 'tis below my greatness to disown it: Love thee implacably, yet hate thee too. Dryd. To IMPLANT. v. a. (in and planto, Latin.] To infix; to infert; to place; to engraft; to fette; to fet; to fow. The original meaning, of putting a vegetable into the ground to grow, is not uften afed. How can you him unworthy then decree, In whofe chief part your worths implanted be? Sidney. See, Father! what firft-fruits on earth are íprung, From thy implanted grace in man! Milton. No need of public fanctions this to bind, Which Nature has implanted in the mind. Dryd. -There grew to the outfide of the arytenoides another cartilage, capable of motion by the help of Same mufales that were implanted in it. Ray.-God having endowed man with faculties of knowing, was no more obliged to implant thofe innate notions in his mind, than that, having given him VOL. XII. PART I. peaces fay, its octave, its twelfth, and its feventeenth or, when reduced, its eighth, its fifth, and it third. But the fame found, when confidered a conftituting any part of harmony, is subjected t other laws and different limitations. It can the only be faid to carry or imply fuch fimple founds or complications of found, as the preceding an fubfequent chords admit or require. For thei the laws of melody and harmony must be confult ed. See HARMONY, and MELODY. * To IMPOISON. v. a. [empoifoner, Fr. I might be written empoison.] 1. To corrupt with poison. One doth not know How much an ill word doth impoifon liking. Shak 2. To kill with poifon. This is rare. See Em POISON. A man by his own alms impoison'd, And with his charity flain. Shak 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, Whilft ev'ry man's his own interpreter. Denh. * IMPLICITLY. adv. [from implicit.] 1. By inference comprised, though not expreffed.-The divine inspection into the affairs of the world doth neceffarily follow from the nature and being of God; and he that denies this, doth implicitly deny his exiftence: he may acknowledge what he will with his mouth, but in his heart he hath faid there is no God. Bentley. 2. By connexion with fomething elfe; dependently; with unreferved confidence or obedience. My blushing mufe with confcious fear retires, And whom they like, implicitly admires, Rofe. --Learn not to dispute the methods of his provi dence; but humbly and implicitly to acquiefce in and adore them. Atterbury. We implicitly follow in the track in which they lead us, and comfort ourfelves with this poor reflection, that we fhall fare as well as thofe that go before us. Rogers. *To IMPLORE. v. a. [implorer, French; imploro, Latin.] 1. To call upon in fupplication; to folicit. * IMPOLARILY. adv. [in and polar.] No according to the direction of the poles. Litt used.-Being impolarily adjoined unto a more vigo rous loadstone, it will, in a fhort time, exchang its poles. Broqun. *IMPOLITICAL, IMPOLITIC. adj. [in and politic.] Imprudent; indiscreet; void of art o forecaft. He that exhorteth to beware of an ene my's policy, doth not give counsel to be impel Pope. tic; but rather to ufe all prudent forefight and circumfpection, left our simplicity be over-reach' by cunning flights. Hooker. They fhip their oars, and crown with wine Do not say, 'tis superstition, that I kneel, and then implore her bleffing. Shak With piercing words and pitiful implore, Breathing, like fanctified and pious, (1.) To IMPLY. v. a. [impliquer, French; implico, Latin.] 1. To unfold; to cover; to entangle. Not in use. His courage ftout, Fairy Queen. And Phoebus flying fo moft fhameful fight, His blufling face in foggy clouds implies. Fairy 2. z. To involve or comprife as a confequence or concomitant. That it was in ufe among the Greeks, the word triclinium implieth. Brown's Vulgar Errours. What follows next is no objection; for that implies a fault. Dryden. Bows, the ftrength of brawny arms imply, Emblems of valour, and of victory. Dryden. -Where a malicious act is proved, a malicious intention is implied. Sherlock. (2.) To IMPLY, and CARRY, in mufic, are used as fynonymous terms, and fignify thofe founds which ought to be the proper concomitants of any note, whether by its own nature, or by its pofition in artificial harmony. Thus every note, confidered as an independent found, may be faid to carry or imply its natural harmonies, that is to *IMPOLITICALLY. Į adv. {in and political. * IMPOLITICKLY. Without art or fore caft. *IMPONDEROUS, adj. [in and ponderous. Void of perceptible weight.-It produces vifible and real effects by imponderous and invisible emit fions. Brown's Vulgar Errours. * IMPOROSITY. n. f. [in and porous.] Ab fence of interstices; compactness; clofenefs. Th porofity or imporofity betwixt the tangible parts and the greatnefs or smallnefs of the pores. Bacon *IMPOROUS. adj. [in and porous.] Free from pores; free from vacuities or interftices; close o texture; completely folid.-It has its earthly and falinous parts fo exactly refolved, that its body i left imporous, and not difcreted by atomical ter minations. Brown's Vulgar Errours.-If atom fhould defcend plumb down with equal velocity being all perfectly folid and imporous, they would never the one overtake the other. Ray on the Crea tion. *IMPORT. n. f. [from the verb.] 1. Impor tance; moment; confequence. What occafion of import ~Hath all fo long detain'd you from your wife Shak Some bufinefs of import that triumph wears You seem to go with. Dryd. and Lee's Oedipus When there is any difpute, the judge ought to appoint the fum according to the eloquence and ability of the advocate, and in proportion to the import of the cause. Ayliffe. 2. Tendency.-Ado to the former obfervations made about vegetables a third of the fame import made in mineral fubftan ces. Boyle. 3. Any thing imported from abroad; as, our imports ought not to exceed our exports. *To IMPORT. v. a. [importo, Lat.] 1. To car ry into any country from abroad : opposed to ex- -The most important and pressing care of a new port. and vigorous king was his marriage, for mediate For Elis I would fail with utmost speed, establishment of the royal line. Wotton. This suT'import twelve mares, which there luxurious peradds treachery to the crime : 'tis the fallifying feed. Pope. the most important trust. Decay of Piety. -Himself not only comprehended all our ne O then, what intereft fhall I make ceflities, but in such fort also framed every petition, To save my last important stake, as might most naturally serve for many; and doth, When the most just have cause to quake? Rofcom. though not always require, yet always import a - The great important end that God designs relimultitude of speakers together. Hooker.-The gion for, the government of mankind, sufficiently name of discipline importeth not as they would thews the necessity of its being rooted deep in the fain have it construed; but the self-fame thing it heart, and put beyond the danger of being torn up signifieth, which the name of doctrine doth. Hooker. by any ordinary violence. South-Examine how the - This question we now asked, imported, as that fashionable practice of the world can be reconciled we thought this land a land of magicians. Bacon. to the important doctrine of our religion. Rogers.3. To produce in consequence. Important truths still let your fables hold, Something he left imperfect in the state, And moral mysteries with art unfold. Grenu. Which fince his coming forthisthought of, which Th' important hour had pass'd unheeded by. Imports the kingdom so much fear and danger, Irene. That return was most requir'd. Shak. K. Lear. 2. Momentous; forcible; of great efficacy. This 4. (Importer, importe, French. Impersonally, To seems to be the meaning here. be of moment: as, it imports, it is of weight or He fiercely at him flew, confequence, And with important outrage him affail'd; Her length of fickness, with what else more Who soon prepard to field, bis sword forth ferious drew, Importeth thee to know, this bears. Shak. And him with equal value countervail'd. Fairy 2. -Let the heat be such as may keep the metal 3. Importunate. A corrupt use of the word. See perpetually molten; for that above all importeth IMPORTANCE.” to the work. Bacon.-Number in armies importeth Great France not much, where the people is of weak courage. My mourning and important tears bath pitied, Bacon. Sbak. This to attain, whether heav'n move, or earth, (1.) * IMPORTATION. n. f. [from import.] Imports not, if thou reckon right. Milton. The act or practice of importing, or bringing into -It may import us in this calm to hearken more a country from abroad : opposed to exportation. than we have done to the forms that are now rai. -The king's reasonable profit should not be neîing abroad. Temple. glected upon importation and exportation. Bacon.If I endure it, what imports it you? Dryden. These mines fill the country with greater numbers IMPORTABLE. adj. (in and portable.) Un- of people than it would be able to bear, without fupportable: not to be endured. A word accen- the importation of corn from foreign parts. Addison ted by Spenser on the first fyllable. It is used in an Italy. -The emperor has forbidden the importathe Apocrypha. tion of their manufactures into any part of the emBoth at once him charge on either side, pire. Addison. With hideous strokes and importable power, (2.) IMPORTATION. See EXPORTATION, and That forced him his ground to traverse wide, Trade. And wisely watch to ward that deadly ftour. (3.) IMPORTATION, LAWS RESPECTING. See Fairy Queen. LAWS, No 10, 11, and CUSTOM-HOUSE. * IMPORTANCE. n. f. (French.) 1. Thing * IMPORTER. n. f. [from import.). One that imported or implied. Räre.-A notable paffion brings in from abroad. It is impossible to limit of wonder appeared in them ; but the wiseft be- the quantity that shall be brought in, especially holder, that knew no more but seeing, could not if the importers of it have so sure a market as the say if the importance were joy or forrow. Shak. Exchequer. Swift. 2. Matter; subject. Not in use.--It had been pity IŃPORTLESS. adj. [from import.] Of no you should have been put together with so mor- moment or consequence. This is a word not in tal a purpose, as then each bore, upon importance use, but not inelegant.of fo Ilight a nature. Shakespeare's Cymbeline. 3• We less expect, That matter needless, of importless burthen, Shak. Th’ importance of Cyprus to the Turks. Shak. * IMPORTUNATE. adj. (importunus, Latin ; Thy own importance know, importune, Fr.1 Unseasonable and incessant in foliNor bound thy narrow views to things below. citations; not to be repulsed. I was in debt to Pope. my importunate business; but he would not hear 4. Importunity. An improper use peculiar to my excuse. Shak.-They may not be able to bear Shakespeare. the clamour of an importunate fuitor. Smalridge. Maria writ -A rule restrains the most importunate appetites The letter at Sir Toby's great importance ; of our nature. Rogers. In recompence whereof he hath married her. Shak. * IMPORTUNATELY. adv. [from importu * IMPORTANT. adj. (important, French.] nate.] With inceffant folicitation ; pertinaciously 1. Momentous ; weight; of great consequence. in petition. Their pertinacy is such, that when |