** To IMITATE. v. a. [imitor, Latin; imiter,
French.] 1. To copy; to endeavour to refemble.
-We imitate and practise to make swifter motions
than any out of your muskets. Bacon.-
Defpife wealth, and imitate a god. Coulert
I would carefs fome ftableman of note,
Aud imitate his language and his coat.
Man of Tafit

This hand appear'd a fhining fword to wield,
And that fuftain'd an imitated shield. Dryd.

3. To purfue the courfe of a compofition, fo as to ufe parallel images and examples.—

*

ftroyed, as well as the ramparts of the city; as
he juftly thought, that Caucafus was the only for
tification capable of being defended by an army
of 6000 men, undifciplined and deftitute of artille-
ry. The population of Imeritia is reckoned to be
20,000 families; but the greater part of them live
neither in towns nor villages, but are difperfed
throughout the level country, each poffeffing a small
hut. There people have fewer fitrangers among them, 2. To counterfeit.
and they are more engaging in their appearance, than
the Georgians, as well as milder and less pufillani-
mous. The chief branch of their commerce con-
fifts in wines, a confiderable quantity of which
they export in fkins as far as the confines of Geor-
gia. They are acquainted with no other trade;
for they are poor, and greatly oppreffed by their
lords. The ordinary, revenues of Imeritia arife
from a tythe which vaffals pay in wines, cattle,
and corn, and fome fubfidies furnished annually
by neighbouring princes. The extraordinary re-
venues, for the most part, arise from confifcations;
yet the finances of the prince are fo limited, that
he is often under the neceffity of going from houfe
to houfe, to live at the expenfe of his vaffals, ne-
ver quitting their habitations until the wants of his
hofts compel him. It is therefore probable, that
the court of the prince of Imeritia is as deficient
in brilliancy, as his table is in fplendor when he
dines at home. His principal difhes confift of a
kind of millet boiled, called gom, and a piece of
roaff meat, with fome high-feafoned fauce. He
never eats but with his fingers, for forks and
spoons are unknown in Imeritia. At table he ge-
nerally gives audiences respecting affairs of the
firft confequence, which he determines as he thinks
proper; for in every country subject to his domi-
nions, his will is the law. On Friday, which is
market day, all his new edicts are publifhed by a
kind of herald, who climbs up into fome tree, to
proclaim the will of his fovereign.

IMERITIANS, the people of Imeritia. They profefs the Greek religion. Their patriach is of the royal family, but often he can neither read nor write The rest of the clergy are not much more enlightened. The greater part of their churches are pitiful edifices, which can fcarcely be diftinguished from common huts, but by a pafteboard crucifix, and a few coarfe paintings of the Virgin. IMHOFF, James William, a celebrated geneaJogift and lawyer of Nuremberg, born in 1651. He publifhed genealogical tables, and several other works, with great reputation; and died in 1728.

IMITABILITY n. f. [imitabilis, Lat.] The quality of being imitable. According to the mul tifariousness of this imitability, so are the poffibilities of being Norris.

* IMITABLE. adj. [imitabilis, Latin; imitable, French.] 1. Worthy to be imitated; deferving to be copied,-How could the most base men, and feparate from all imitable qualities, attain to honour but by an obfervant flavish courfe? Raleigh's Hift. of the World.-As acts of parliament are not regarded by most imitable writers, I account the relation of them improper for hiftory. Hayward. 2. Poffible to be imitated; within reach of imitation. -The characters of men placed in lower ftations of life, are more ufeful, as being imitable by greater numbers. Atterbury.

Gay.

For fhame! what, imitate an ode! (1.) IMITATION. n.. [imitatio, Lat. imi tation, French.] 1. The act of copying; attempt to refemble. 2. That which is offered as a copy Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, muft produce a much greater; for both thefe arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the beft nature. Dryden. 3. A method of translating loofer than paraphrafe, in which modern examples and illuftrations are used for ancient, or domeftick for foreign. In the way of imitation, the tranflator not only varies from the words and fenfe, but forfakes them as he fees occafion; and, taking only fome general hints from the original, runs di vifion on the groundwork. Dryden.

(2.) IMITATION, in mufic, admits of two different fenfes. Sound and motion are either capable of imitating themselves by a repetition of their own par ticular modes; or of imitating other objects of a nobler and more abftracted nature. Nothing per. haps is fo purely mental, nothing fo remote from external fenfe, as not to be imitable by mufic. The defcription of this, by M. Rouffeau, in his article IMITATION, is nobly animated, and compre hends all that is neceffary to be faid on the fubject. "Dramatic or theatrical mufic (fays he) contributes to imitation no less than painting or poetry: it is in this common principle that we mult inveftigate both the origin and the final cause of all the fine arts, as M. le Batteaux has fhewn. But this imitation is not equally extensive in all the imita tive arts. Whatever the imagination can repre fent to itself is in the department of poetry. Paint. ing, which does not prefent its pictures to the imagination immediately, but to external fenfe and to one fenfe alone, paints only fuch objects as are difcoverable by fight. Mufic might appear fubjected to the fame limits with refpect to the ear; yet it is capable of painting every thing, even fuch images as are objects of ocular perception alone: by a magic almoft inconceivable, it seems to tranfform the ears into eyes, and endow them with the double function of perceiving vifible objects by the mediums of their own; and it is the greatest miracle of an art, which can only act by motion, that it can make that very motion reprefent abfolute quiefcence. Night, fleep, filence, folitude, are the noble efforts, the grand images, repre fented by a picturefque mufic. We know that noife can produce the fame effect with filence, and filence the fame effect with noife; as when one fleeps at a lecture infipidly and monotonically delivered, but wakes the inftant when it ends. But mufic acts more intimately upon our fpirits, in

exciting

My powers are unfit, Myself immartial.

Chapman's Odses. * To IMMASK. v. a. [in and mask.] To cover; to disguise.—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 spirits 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 the is confin'd;

So hath the not a body of her own, But is a spirit and immaterial mind. Davies. -Thofe 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 existence of an infinite fpirit 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.z. f. [from immaterial.] Incorporeity; diftinctness 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.] Diftinct from matter; incorpo. real.-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 fenfes 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 Errours.

* IMMATERIALNESS. n. /. [from immaterial] Diftinctnefs from matter.

IMMATERIATE. adj. [in and materia, Latin.] Not confifting of matter; incorporeal; wanting 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 interpose some object which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of founds. Bacon.

* IMMATURE. adj. [immaturus, Latin.] 1. Not ripe. 2. Not perfect; not arrived at fulness or completion. The land enterprife of Panama was an ill measured and immature counsel, ground

* IMMATURELY. adv. [from immature.] Too foon; too early; before ripeness or completion.

* IMMATURENESS. Į

IMMATURITY... [from immature.] Unripeness; incompleteness; a state fhort of completion.-I might reasonably expect a pardon from the ingenuous for faults committed in an immaturity of age and judgment. Glanville.

IMMEABILITY. u. f. [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 given them. Hooker.

From the fhore

They view'd the vast immeafurable abyss,
Outrageous as a fea, dark, wafteful, wild. Milt,
Immeasurable strength they might behold
In me, of wisdom nothing more than mean
Milton.

What a glorious fhew are thofe beings entertained with, that can see fuch tremendous objects wandering through thofe immeafurable depths of ether! Addifon's Guardian.

Nor friends are there, nor veffels to convey, Nor oars to cut th' immeasurable way. Pope. * IMMEASURABLY. adv. [from immeafurable.] Immenfely; beyond all measure.-The Spaniards immeasurably bewail their dead. Spenfer.

There ye fhall be fed, and fill'd Immeasurably; all things shall be your prey. Milt. * IMMECHANICAL. adj. (in and mechanical.] Not according to the laws of mechanics.-We have nothing to do to fhow any thing that is im mechanical, or not according to the established laws of nature. Cheyne.-Nothing will clear a head poffeffed with immechanical notions. Mead.

* IMMEDIACY. n. f. [from immediate.] Perfonal greatnefs; power of acting without dependance. This is a harsh word, and sense peculiar, I believe, to Shakspeare.

He led our pow'rs,

Before the commiffion of my place and person,
The which immediacy may well ftand up,
And call itself your brother. Shak. King Lear.

IMMEDIATE. adj. [immediat, French; in and medius, Latin.] 1. Being in fuch a state with refpect to fomething elfe as that there is nothing between them; proximate; with nothing intervening.-Mofes mentions the immediate causes of

the

the deluge, the rains and the waters; and St Peter mentions the more remote and fundamental caufes, that conftitution of the heavens. Burnet. 1. Not acting by fecond causes. 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 fhould not have written more immedi

ate.

Immediate are my needs, and my relief
Muft not be toft and turn'd to me in words,
But find supply immediate. Shak. Timon,

Death denounc'd that day,

Which he prefumes already vain, and void,
Because not yet inflicted, as he fear'd,

By fome immediate ftroke. Milton's Par. Lof.
But the, howe'er of vict❜ry sure,
Contemps the wreath too long delay'd;
And arm'd with more immediate pow'r,
Calls cruel filence to her aid.
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. J. [from immediate.] 1. Prefence with regard to time. 2. Exemption from second or intervening causes.

* IMMEDICABLE. adj. Limmedicabilis, Lat.] Not to be healed; incurable.

My griefs ferment and rage, Nor lefs than wounds immedicable, Rankle and fester, 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 some 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 prescription of an aged tho rough-paced hypocrify, they come to believe that for a reality, which, at firft practice of it, they themfelves knew to be a cheat. South.

(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 no relation unto body; but is a thing diftinct from all corporeal magnitude, which we mean when we fpeak of immenfity, and of God as of an immenfe being. Grew.

* IMMENSELY. adv. [from immenfe.] 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 fpace, we get the idea of im menfity, Locke. He that will confider the immenfity 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 manfions of it there may be other and different intelligent beings. Locke.

All these 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. ». f. [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.

* 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 reflec tion, that our country, which, in times of popery, was called the nation of faints, should 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 such 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 purfuit, and immerfe 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, n. f. [immerfio, Latin; immerfion, French.] 1. The act of putting any body into a fluid below the furface.-Achilles's mother is faid to have dipped him, when he was a child, in the river Styx, which made him invulnerable all over, excepting that part which the mother held in her hard during this immerfion. Addifon. 2. The ftate of finking below the furface of a fluid. 3. The ftate of being overwhelmed or loft in any refpect.-Many perfons, who, through the heat of their lufts and paffions, through the contagion of ill example, or too deep an immersion in the affairs of life, fwerve from the rules of their holy faith; yet would, upon extra ordinary warning, be brought to comply with them.. Atterbury.

(2.) IMMERSION, in aftronomy, is when a star or planet is fo near the fun with regard to our obfervations, that we cannot fee it; being, as it were, inveloped and hid in the rays of that lumi. nary. It alfo 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 earth.

(3) IMMERSION, in chemistry, is a fpecies of calcination, when any body is inmerfed in a fluid to be corroded: or it is a species of lotion; as when a substance is plunged into any fluid, to deprive it of a bad quality, or communicate to it a good one.

IMMETHODICAL. adj. [in and methodical Confufed; being without regularity; being with out method.-M. Bayle compares the anfwering of an immethodical author to the hunting of a duck: when you have him full in your fight, he gives you the flip, and becomes invifible. Addison. *IMMETHODICALLY. adv. [from immethodical.] 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 imminenee, 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

You have defended me from imminent death.
Shak.
Thefe the applies for warnings and portents
Of evils imminent; and on her knee
Hath begg'd that I will stay at home to-day.

Some of us, like thee, through ftormy life
Toil'd, tempest beaten, ere we could attain
This holy calm, this harmony of mind,
Where purity and peace immingle charms.
Thomson.

IMMINUTION. n. f. [from imminuo, Lat.] Diminution; decrease. These 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 oversee and secure them from all alteration or imminution. Ray on the Creation.

* IMMISCIBILITY. n. f. [from immifcible.] Incapacity of being mingled.

*IMMISCIBLE. adj. [in and mifcible.] Not capable of being mingled. Clariffa.

IMMISSION. n. f. [immissio, Latin.] The act of fending in; contrary to emiffion.*To IMMIT. v. n. [immitto, Lat.] To fend in. * To IMMIX. v. a. [in and mix.] To mingle. Samfon, with these immixt, inevitably Pull'd down the same destruction on himself. Milton.

IMMIXABLE. adj. [in and mix.] Impoffi ble to be mingled. Fill a glass sphere with such liquors as may be clear, of the fame colour, and immixable. Wilkins.

* IMMOBILITY. n. f. [immobilité, French, from immobilis, Latin.] Unmoveableness; want of motion; refiftance to motion.-The courfe of fluids through the vascular solids must in time harden the fibres, and abolish many of the canals'; from whence drynefs, weakness, immobility, and debility of the vital force. Arbuthnot.

IMMODERATE. adj. (immoderé, French, immoderatus, Latin.] Exceffive; 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 the 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; excefs.

* IMMODEST. adj. [immodefte, Fr. in and modeft.] 1. Wanting fhame; wanting delicacy or chaftity. She railed at herself, that the fhould be fo immodest 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 leaft immodest thought. Dryden. 3. Obscene.

'Tis needful that the most immodeft word Be look'd upon, and learn'd; which once at tain'd,

Comes to no farther use
But to be known and hated.

Shak

Immodeft words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of fenfe. Rofcomm 4. Unreasonable; exorbitant; arrogant.

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