Now immolate the tongues, and mix the wine, Sacred to Neptune and the powers divine. Pope's Odyffey. (1.) IMMOLATION. n. f. immolation, Fr. from immolate.] 1. The act of facrificing. In the picture of the immolation of Ifaac, or Abraham facrificing his fon, Ifaac is defcribed as a little boy. Brown. 2. A facrifice offered. We make more barbarous immolations than the moft favage heathens. Decay of Piety.

(2) IMMOLATION was a ceremony in the Roman facrifices, confifting of throwing upon the head of the victim fome corn and frankincenfe, with the MOLA, or falt cake, and a little wine.

IMMOMENT. adj. [in and moment.] Trifling; of no importance or value.. A barbarous word

I fome lady-trifles have referv'd, Immoment toys, things of fuch dignity As we greet modern friends withal. Shak. IMMORAL. adj. [in and moral.] 1. Wanting regard to the laws of natural religion; as, a flatterer of vice is an immoral man. 2. Contrary to honey; dishoneft: as, defertion of a calumniated friend is an immoral action.

IMMORALITY. . f. [from immoral.] Dif bonefly; want of virtue; contrariety to virtue.Such men are put into the commiffion of the peace who encourage the groffeft immoralities, to whom all the bawds of the ward pay contribution. Swift.

IMMORTAL. adj. [immortalis, Lat.] 1. Exempt from death; being never to die,To the king eternal, immortal, invifible, the only wife God, be glory for ever. 1 Tim. i. 17.

Her body fleeps in Capulet's monument, And her immortal part with angels lives. Shak. -There was an opinion in grofs, that the foul was immortal. Abbot's Defcription of the World.

The Paphian queen,

With gored hand, and veil fo rudely torn, Like terror did among th' immortals breed, Taught by her wound that goddeffes may bleed. Waller. Give me my robe, put on my crown: I have Immortal longings in me. Shak. *IMMORTALITY. n.f. [immortalité, Fr.from immortal.] 1. Exemption from death; life never to end.-This corruptible fhall put on incorruption, and this mortal, immortality. Corinth.Quaff immortality and joy. Milton. He th' immortality of fouls proclaim'd, Whom th' oracle of men the wifeft nam'd. Denbam.

2. Never-ending; perpetual.

His exiftence will of itfelf continue for ever, un lefs it be deftroyed; which is impoffible, from the

(1.) * To IMMORTALIZE. v. a. (immortalifer, From immortal.] 1. To make immortal; to perpetuate; to exempt from death.

For mortal things defire their like to breed, That fo they may their kind immortalize. Dav. 2. To exempt from oblivion.

Drive them from Orleans, and be immortaliz❜d. Shak. (2.) To IMMORTALIZE. v. a. To become immortal. This word is, I think, peculiar to PopeFix the year precife,

When British bards begin t' immortalize. Pope. (1.) IMMORTALLY, adv. (from the adjective.] So as never to die.

IMMOVABLE. adj. [in and moveable.] 1. Not to be forced from its place. We fhall not queftion his removing the earth, when he finds an im movable base to place his engine upon, Brown.2. Not liable to be carried away; real in law. -When an executor meddles with the immov able eftate, before he has feized on the moveable goods, it may be then appealed from the execution of fentence. Ayliffe's Parergon.-Unfhaken; unaffected. How much happier is he, who, centring on himfelf, remains immovable, and fmiles at the madness of the dance about him! Dryden.

IMMOVABLY. adv. [from immovable.) In a ftate not to be fhaken.-Immovably firm to their duty, when they could have no profpect of reward. Atterbury.

(1.) IMMUNITY, n. f. [immunité, Fr. immu nitas, Lat.]. Difcharge from any obligation.Of things harmless whatsoever there is, which the whole church doth obferve, to argue for any man's immunity from obferving the fame, it were a point of moft infolent madnels. Hooker. 2. Privilege; exemption from onerous duties.-Granting great immunities to the commons, they prevailed fo far as to caufe Palladius to be proclaimed fucceffor, Sidney.-Simon fent to Demetrius to the end he fhould give the land an immunity, because all that Tryphon did was to spoil, 1 Mac. xiii. 34. The laity invidiously aggravate the rights and immunities of the clergy. Spratt's Sermons. 3. Freedom. Common apprehenfions entertain the antidotal condition of Ireland, conceiving only in that land an immunity from venomous creatures. Brown's Vulgar Errours.

But this annex'd condition of the crown, Immunity from errors, you difown. Dryden. (2) IMMUNITY is particularly understood of the liberties granted to cities and communities. * IMMURE. n. f. [from the verb.] A wall; an inclofure, as in Shakespeare, but perhaps no where elfe.

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Their

Their vow is made

To ranfack Troy, within whofe ftrong immures
The ravish'd 'Helen, Menelaus' queen,
With wanton Paris fleeps.

Shak. *To IMMURE. V. a. [in and murus, Lat. emurer, old French, fo that it might be written emmure.] To inclofe within walls; to confine; to fhut up; to imprison.

Pity, you ancient ftones, thefe tender babes, Whom envy hath immur'd within your walls: Shak. One of thefe three contains her heav'nly picture;

And fhall I think in filver the's immar'd? Shak. -At the first defcent on fhore he was not immur'd with a wooden veffel, but he did countenance the landing in his long-boat. Wotton Lyfimachus immur'd it with a wall. Sandys's Travels.

Though a foul foolish prifon her immure On earth, the, when efcap'd is wife and pure. Denham.

* IMMUSICAL. adj. [in and mufical.] Inharmonious; wanting proportion of found.-All founds are either mufical, which are ever equal, or immufical, which are ever unequal, as the voice in fpeaking, and whifperings. Bacon's Natural Hiftory. We confider the immufical note of all fwans we ever beheld or heard of Brown.

IMMUTABILITY. n. f. [immutabilitas, Lat. immutabilité, Fr. from immutable.] Exemption from change; invariableness; unchangeablenefs. The immutability of God they ftrive unto, by working after one and the fame manner. Hooker. -His exiftence will of itfelf continue for ever, unlefs it be deftroyed; which is impoffible, from the immutability of God. Cheyne's Philofophical Principles.

* IMMUTABLE. adj. immutabilis, Lat.] Unchangeable; invariable; unalterable.By two imsutable things, in which it was impoffible for God to lie, we have a ftrong confolation. Heb.

Thy threat'nings, Lord, as thine, thou may'ft revoke;

But if immutable and hand,

ΤΟ

Continue ftill thyfelf to give the ftroke, And let not foreign foes opprefs thy land. Dryden. IMMUTABLY. adv. [from immutable.) Unalterably invariably; unchangeably. His love is like his effence, immutably eternal.num. Boyle.

(1.) IMOLA, a populous diftrict of Italy in the department of Reno. The number of its citizens were, in 1801, reckoned 116,728.

(2.) IMOLA; a city of Italy, in the ci-devant province of Romagna, capital of the above diftrict, (N.) anciently called Forum Cornelii. (See FORUM, V. No.) By the former divifion of the republic in 1797, it was included in the dep. of the Amone. It is feated on an island formed by the Santerno; is ftrongly fortified with walls, turrets, and ditches; and has an ancient caftle, with a cathedral and 12 churches. On the 11th Feb. 1797, a rebellion was quelled in this town, and the papal army defeated, by the French under Gen. Bonaparte, affifted by the Legion of Lombardy, who (fays Dr Oppenheim, in his Geog.

and Statift. Account of the Cifalpine Republic,) "hig nalized themselves by extraordinary valour on this expedition, which was their firft fervice." The town is a bishop's fee, and is 18 miles SE. of Bo logna, and 40 NNE. of Florence. Lon. 11.45.E Lat. 44. 28. N.

IMOSCHI, a diftrict in the late Venetian Dal

matia.

IMP. n. [imp, Welfh, a fhoot, a fprout, a fprig.] 1. A fon; the offspring; progeny.-That noble imp your fon. Lord Crom. to King Henry.And thou most dreaded imp of higheft Jove, Fair Venus' fon. Fairy Quees The tender imp was weaned from the teat. Fairfax

A lad of life, an imp of fame. Shak. Henry V 2. A fubaltern devil; a puny devil. In this fenfe 'tis ftill retained.-Such we deny not to be the imps and limbs of Satan. Hooker.

The ferpent, after long debate, irrefolute Of thoughts revolv'd, his final fentence chofe, Fit veffel, fitteft imp of fraud, in whom To enter, and his dark fuggeftions hide From fharpeft fight.

Milton.

A moving mafs at firft, and fhort of thighs; 'Till fhooting out with legs, and imp'd with wings,

The grubs proceed to bees with pointed ftings. Dryden

The Mercury of heav'n, with filver wings Impt for the flight to overtake his ghoft. Soutb IMPACH, a town of Auftria, 6 miles W. from Crems.

IMPACT. n. f. the fimple action of one body upon another, to put in motion. The point of impact is the point where the body'acts.

To IMPACT. v. a. [impactus, Lat.] To drive clofe or hard. They are angular; but of what particular figure is not eafy to determine, becaufe of their being impacted fo thick and confufedly together. Woodward on Foils.

*To IMPAINT. v. a. (in and paint.] To paint; to decorate with colours. Not in ufe.— "Never yet did infurrection want Such water colours to impaint his caufe. Shak IMPAIR.

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, Or thirst. Milton. Nor 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. (2.) * To IMPAIR. v. n. To be leffened or worn

out.

Flesh may impair, quoth he; but reason can repair. Fairy Queen. IMPAIRMENT. n. f. [from impair.] Diminution; injury. His potterity, at this diftance, and after fo perpetual impairment, cannot but condemn the poverty of Adam's conception, that thought to obfcure himself from his Creator in the fhade of the garden. Brosun's Vulgar Errours. (1.) To IMPALE. See To EMPALE.

(2.) 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 thofe of their husbands. See HERALDRY, Chap. VI.

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

IMPANATION, a term ufed by divines to fignify 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 criminal caufes. See EMPANNEL, and Law, Part. II. Chap. IV. § xxvii.

To IMPARADISE.v. a.[imparadifare, Ital.] To put in a place or ftate refembling paradife in felicity. 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, VOL. XIL PART L

Donne.

The happier Eden, fhall enjoy their fill
Of blifs on blifs.
Milton's Par. Loß.

* IMPARITY. n. f. [imparitas, impar, Latin.J 1. Inequality; difproportion.-Some bodies are hard, fome foft: the hardness is caufed chiefly by the jejuneness of the fpirits, and their imparity with the tangible parts. 2. Oddness; 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 advife what answer the defendant shall make to the plaintiff's action; and is the continuance of the cause till another day, or a longer time given by the court. *To IMPART. v. a. [impartior, Lat.] 1. Te grant ; to give.

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

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

When firft I did impart my love to you,
I freely told you, all the wealth I had
Ran in my veins.

Shake

-As in confeffion the revealing is for the cafe of a man's heart, fo fecret men come to the knowledge of many things, while men rather difcharge than impart their minds. Bacon.

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 spirit within thee free, My image, not imparted to the brute. Milton. * IMPARTIAL. adj. [impartial, Fr. in and partial] Equitable; free from regard to party; indifferent; difinterested; equal in distribution of juftice; juft. It is ufed as well of actions as persons; an impartial judge; an impartial sentence.

Success I hope, and fate I cannot fear: Alive or dead, I fhall deferve a name; Jove is impartial, and to both the fame. Dryd. * IMPARTIALITY. n. f. [impartialité, Fr. from impartial.] Equitablenefs; juftice; indifierence.-A pious and well difpofed will gives not only diligence, but also impartiality, to the underftanding 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 ftill glancing upen fomething beside it. South.

IMPARTIALLY. adv. [from_impartial.] Equitably; with indifferent and unbialled 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. frota impart.] Communicable; to be conferred or beftowed. This word is elegant, though uled by few

writers.-The fame body may be conceived to be more or lefs impartible than it is active or heavy. Digby.

IMPASSABLE. adj. [in and paffable] Not to be passed; not admiting paffage; impervious. -There are in America many high and impaffable mountains, which are very rich. Raleigh.Over this gulf

Impaffable, impervious, let us try,

To found a path from hell to that new world. Milton. -When Alexander would have paffed the Ganges, he was told by the Indians that all beyond it was either impaffable marshes, or fandy defarts. Temple. (1.) * IMPASSIBILITY n. f. [impaffibilité, Fr. from impaffible. Exemption from fuffering; infufceptibility of injury from external things.-Two divinities might have pleaded their prerogative of impaffibility, or at least not have been wounded by any mortal hand. Dryden.

(2.) IMPASSIBILITY. The Stoics place the foul of their wife men in an impaffible, imperturbable ftate. See APATHY, § 2.

* IMPASSIBLE. adj. [impoffible, French; in and paffio, Lat.] Incapable of fuffering; exempt from the agency of external caufes; exempt from pain. -If the upper foul check what is confented to by the will, in compliance with the flesh, and can then hope that, after a few years of fenfuality, that rebellious fervant fhall be eternally caft off, drop into a perpetual impaffible nothing, take a long progrefs into a land where all things are forgotten, this would be fome colour. Hammond.

Secure of death, I fhould contemn thy dart, Though naked and impaffible depart. Dryden. * IMPASSIBLENESS. n.. [from imp fible.] Impaffibility; exemption from pain.-How thamelefs a partiality is it, thus to referve all the fenfualities of this world, and yet cry out for the impaffibleness of the next? Decay of Piety.

* IMPASSIONED. adj. [in and paffion.] Difordered by påffion.—

So, ftanding, moving, or to height upgrown, The tempter, all impaffion'd, thus began. Milt. * IMPASSIVE. adj. [in and passive.] Exempt from the agency of external caules.

She told him what those empty phantoms were, Forms without bodies, and impaffive air. Dryd Pale funs, unfelt at diftance, roll away; And on th' impaffiveice the lightnings play. Pope. IMPASTATION, n. J. the mixtion of various materials of different colours and confiftencies, baked or bound together with fome cement, and hardened either by the air or by fire. *IMPASTED. adj. [in and pafle.] Concreted as into pafle. This word is not in ufe.

Horridly trickt

With blood of fathers, mothers,daughters, fons, Bak'd and impaled with the parching fires. Shak. IMPATIENCE. n. f. [impatience, Fr. impatientia, Lat.] 1. Inability to fuffer pain; rage under fuffering. All the power of his wits has given way to his impatience. Shak.-The experiment I refolved to make was upon thought, and not rafhnefs or impatience. Temple. 2. Vehemence of temper; heat of paffion. 3. Inability to fuffer delay; eagerness.

IMPATIENS, TOUCH-ME-NOT, and BALSAMINE: A genus of the monogamia order, belonging to the fyngenesia clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 24th order, Corydales. The calyx is diphyllous; the corolla pentapetalous, and irregular, with a hooded nectarium; the capfule fuperior and quinquevalved.

I. IMPATIENS BALSAMINA, or BALSAM, is a native of India. It has a fibrous root, an upright, thick, fucculent ftalk, branching all around a foot and a half or two feet high; with long, spearfhaped, fawed leaves, the upper ones alternate; and from the joints of the stalk and branches clufters of fhort foot-ftalks, each fuftaining one large irregular flower, of different colours in the varieties; flowering from June or July till September. This fpecies requires artificial warmth. The feeds will indeed grow in the full ground, but rarely before May; and more freely then, if covered with a hand-glafs, &c. But the plants raised by artificial heat will flower 5 or 6 weeks fooner than those raised in the natural ground. The feeds ought therefore always to be fowed on a hot-bed in March or April, and the plants continued therein till June; and if the frames be deep, they will then be drawn up to the length of 2 or 3 feet; after which they may be planted in pots, which must likewife be continued in the hot-bed till the plants have taken fresh root.

2. IMPATIENS 'NOLY-ME-TANGERE, or common yellow balfamine, is a native of Britain, but is cultivated in many gardens for curiofity. It has a fibrous root, an upright jointed, fucculent, ftalk, about 18 inches high, with alternate oval leaves; and, from the axillas of the ftalks, long, flender, branching footftalks, each sustaining many yellow flowers; fucceeded by taper capfules, that burft open, and dart forth their feeds with great velocity, whence its name. It is very hardy, and will grow freely from the feeds in any common border.

* IMPATIENT. adj. [impatient, Fr. impatiens, Lat.] 1. Not able to endure; incapable to bear: with of

wound

Fame, impatient of extremes, decays Not more by envy than excess of praife. Pope. 2. Furious with pain; unable to bear pain.The tortur'd favage turns around, And flings about his foam, impatient of the Dryden. 3. Vehemently agitated by fome painful paffion; with at before the occafion : with of impatience is referred more to the thing, with at to the perfon.-To be impatient at the death of a perfon, concerning whom it was certain he muft die, is to mourn because thy friend was not born an angel. Taylor. 4. Hot; hafty.-The impatient man will not give himfelf time to be informed of the matter that lies before him. Addison. 5. Eager; ardently defirous; not able to endure delay: with for before the thing defired.

The mighty Cæfar waits his vital hour, Impatient for the world, and grafps his promis'd pow'r. Dryden. On the feas prepar'd the vessel stands; The impatient mariner thy speed demands. Pope. * IMPATIENTLY, adv. [from impatient.] 1.

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