The mojft impediments unto my fpeech, Shak. To this good purpose, that fo fairly shows, Dream of impediment. Shak. -They bring one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his fpeech. Mark vii. 32.-Fear is the greatest impediment to martyrdom; and he that is overcome by little arguments of pain, will hardly confent to lofe his life with torments. Taylor. Free from th' impediments of light and noise, Man, thus retir'd, his nobler thoughts employs. Waller. (2.) IMPEDIMENTS, in law, are fuch hindrances as put a stop to a perfon's feeking his right by a due course of law. Perfons under impediments are those under age or coverture non compos mentis, in prifon, beyond fea, &c. who, by a faving in our laws, have time to claim and profecute their rights, after the impediments are removed, in cafe of fines levied, &c. *To IMPEL. v. a. [impello, Latin.] To drive on towards a point; to urge forward; to press on. So Myrrah's mind, impell'd on either fide, Takes ev'ry bent, but cannot long abide. Dryd. The furge impell'd me on a craggy coaft. Pope. Propitious gales Attend thy voyage, and impel thy fails. Pope. Pope. * IMPELLENT. n. f. impellens, Latin.] An impulfive power; a power that drives forward.How fuch a variety of motions fhould be regularly managed, in fuch a wilderness of paffages, by mere blind impellents and material conveyances, I have not the leaft conjecture. Glanv. *To IMPEND. v. n. [impendeo, Lat.] 1. To hang over. Deftruction fure o'er all your heads impends; Ulyffes comes, and death his steps attends. Pope. 2. To be at hand; to prefs nearly. It is ufed in an ill fenfe. It expreffes our deep forrow for our paft fins, and our lively sense of God's impending wrath. Smalridge's Sermons. No ftory I unfold of public woes, Nor bear advices of impending foes. Pope. * IMPENDENCE. n. Î. [from impendent.] The ftate of hanging over; near approach.-Good fometimes is not fafe to be attempted, by reason of the impendence of a greater fenfible evil. Hale. * IMPENDENT. adj. [impendens, Lat.] Imminent hanging over; preffing clofely. In an ill fenfe.-If the evil feared or impendent be a greater fenfible evil than the good, it over-rules the appetite to averfation. Hale.- Dreadful in arms, on Landen's glorious plain Place Ormond's duke: impendent in the air Let his keen fabre, comet-like, appear. Prior. * IMPENETRABILITY. n. f. [impenetrabilité, French, from impenetrable.] 1. Quality of not being pierceable, or permeable.-All bodies, fo far as experience reaches, are either hard, or may be hardened; and we have no other evidence of univerfal impenetrability, befides a large experience without an experimental exception. Newton. 2. Infufceptibility of intellectual impreffion. * IMPENETRABLE. adj. [impenetrable, Fr. impenetrabilis, Lat.] 1. Not to be pierced; not to be entered by any external force. With hard'ning cold and forming heat, The cyclops did their strokes repeat, Before th' impenetrable shield was wrought. Dryden. 2. Impervious; not admitting entrance.Deep into fome thick covert would I run, Impenetrable to the stars or fun. Dryden. The mind frights itself with any thing reflected on in grofs: things, thus offered to the mind, carry the fhew of nothing but difficulty in them, and are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obfcurity. Locke. 3. Not to be taught; not to be informed. 4. Not to be affected; not to be mo. ved. It is the most impenetrable cur That ever kept with men. -Let him alone; I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. Shak. -Some will never believe a propofition in divini. ty, if any thing can be faid againft it; they will be credulous in all affairs of life, but impenetrable by a fermon of the gospel. Taylor. IMPENETRABLY. adv. [from impenetrable.] With hardness to a degree capable of impreffion. Pope. Blunt the fenfe, and fit it for a skull Of folid proof, impenetrably dull. * IMPENITENCE. Įn. f. [impenitence, Fr. in * IMPENITENCY. and penitence.] Obduracy; want of remorfe for crimes; final difregard of God's threatenings or mercy.-Where one man ever comes to repent, a thousand end their days in final impenitence. South-Before the revelation of the gofpel, the wickedness and impenitency of the heathens was a much more excuseable thing, becaufe they were in a great measure ignorant of the rewards of another life. Tillotson.-He will advance from one degree of wickednefs and impenitence to another, 'till at laft he becomes hardened without remorse. Rogers. * IMPENITENT. adj. [impenitent, Fr. in and penitent.] Finally negligent of the duty of re pentance; obdurate.-Our Lord in anger hath granted fome impenitent men's request; as, on the other fide, the apostle's fuit he hath of favour and mercy not granted. Hooker.They dy'd *IMPENITENTLY. adv. [from impenitent.] Obdurately; without repentance-The condition required of us is a conftellation of all the gofpel graces, every one of them rooted in the heart, though mixed with much weakness, and perhaps with many fins, fo they be not wilfully and impenitently lived and died in. Hammond. What crowds of thefe, impenitently bold, In founds and jingling fyllables grown old, Still run on poets! Pope. IMPENNOUS. adj. (in and penna, Latin.] Wanting wings. This word is convenient, but, I think, not ufed.-It is generally received an earwigg hath no wings, and is reckoned amongft impennous infects; but he that fhall, with a needle, put afide the short and fheathy cafes on their back, may draw forth two wings, larger than in many flies. Brown. IMPERATE. adj. [imperatus, Lat.] Done with confcioufnefs; done by direction of the mind. -The elicit internal acts of any habit may be quick and vigorous, when the external imperate acts of the fame habit utterly cease. South-Thofe natural and involuntary actings are not done by deliberation, yet they are done by the energy of the foul and inftrumentality of the spirits, as well as thole imperate acts, wherein we fee the empire of the foul. Hale. (1.) IMPERATIVE. adj. [imperatif, French, imperativus, Latin.] Commanding; expreffive of command. The verb is formed in a different manner, to fignify the intention of commanding, forbidding, allowing, difallowing, intreating; which likewife, from the principal use of it, is called the imperative mood. Clarke. (1.) The IMPERATIVE MOOD, is one of the moods of a verb, used when we would command, intreat, or advife: thus, go, read, take, pity, be advised, are imperatives in our language. But in the learned languages, this mood has a peculiar termination to diftinguish it, doce or doceto, teach; lege or legito, read, &c. are not only fo, but the termination varies, according as we addrefs one or more perfons, as audi and audite; anvilw, axvilwr, Enloexy, &c. * IMPERATIVELY. adv. In a commanding Style; authoritatively. IMPERATOR, [Latin, i. e. commander.] in Roman antiquity, a title of honour conferred on victorious generals by their armies, and after. wards confirmed by the fenate. Though originally no more than a military title in the republican armies, yet upon the degeneracy of the Roman republic, and affumption of the fupreme power by Cæfar and Auguftus, it was used to ex prefs the most unlimited defpotifm, and a rank fuperior to that of King. Hence the origin of EMPEROR. IMPERATORIA, MASTERWORT, a genus of the digynia order, belonging to the pentandria clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 45th order, Umbellate. The fruit is roundish, compreffed in the middle, gibbous, and furrounded with a border; the petals are inflexoemarginated. There is only one fpecies, viz. IMPERATORIA OSTRUTHIUM, a native of the Auftrian and Styrian Alps, and other mountainous places of Italy. Mr Lightfoot informs us, that he found it in feveral places on the banks of the Clyde in Scotland; but whether it be indigenous, is uncertain. The root is as thick as a man's thumb, running in the ground; it is fleshy, aromatic, and has a strong acrid tafte, biting the tongue like pellitory of Spain; the leaves arife im mediately from the root; they have long footftalks, dividing into three very fhort ones at the top, each fuftaining a trilobate leaf, indented on the border. The foot-ftalks are deeply channelled, and when broken, emit a rank odour. The flower-ftalks rife about 2 feet high, dividing into, 2 or 3 branches, each terminated by a pretty large umbel of white flowers, whofe petals are fplit; thefe are fucceeded by oval compreffed feeds, or by parting the roots in autumn. It thrives beft in a Thady fituation. The root has a flower fimilar to that of angelica, and is esteemed a good fudorific. There are inftances of its having turned the ague when the bark had failed. It fhould be dug up in winter, and a ftrong infufion made in wine. * IMPERCEPTIBLE. adj. (imperceptible, Fr. in and perceptible.] Not to be discovered; not to be perceived; fmall; fubtile; quick or flow, fo as to elude observation.-Some things are in their nature imperceptible by our fenfe; yea, and the more refined parts of material existence, which, by reason of their fubtilty, efcape our perception. Hale. In the fudden changes of his fubject with almost imperceptible connections, the Theban poet is his mafter. Dryden.-The parts must have their outlines in waves, refembling flames, or the gliding of a fnake upon the ground: they must be al most imperceptible to the touch, and even. Dryden. -The alterations in the globe are very flight, and almost imperceptible, and fuch as tend to the benefit of the earth. Wood. * IMPERCEPTIBLENESS. n. f. The quality of eluding obfervation.-Many excellent things there are in nature, which, by reason of their fubtilty and imperceptibleness to us, are not fo muchas within any of our faculties to apprehend. Hale. *IMPERCEPTIBLY.adv. [from imperceptible.] In a manner not to be perceived.-Upon reading of a fable, we are made to believe we advife ourfelves: the moral infinuates itself imperceptibly, we are taught by furprise, and become wifer and better unawares. Addifon. (1.) IMPERFECT. adj. [imparfait, Fr. imperfectus, Lat.] 1. Not complete; not abfolutely finished; defective. Ufed either of perfons or things. Something he left imperfect in the state, Which, fince his coming forth, is thought of, Which brought the kingdom fo much fear and danger, Shak. That his return was most requir'd. Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfe& thing, fettled in the imagination; but never arri ving at the understanding, there to obtain the tincture of reafon. Ben Jonfon. The middle action, which produceth imperfect bodies, is fitly called, by fome of the ancients, inquination or inconcoction, which is a kind of putrefaction. Bacon.-The ancients were imperfect in the doc. trine of meteors, by their ignorance of gun powder powder and fireworks. Brown.-Divers things we agree to be knowledge, which yet are so uneafy to be fatisfactorily understood by our imperfect intellects, that let them be delivered in the clearest expreffions, the notions themfelves will yet appear obfcure. Boyle.-A marcor is either imperfect, tending to a greater withering, which is curable; or perfect, that is, an entire wafting of the body, excluding all cure. Harvey. The ftill-born founds upon the palate hung, And dy'd imperfect on the falt'ring tongue. Dryden. -As obscure and imperfect ideas often involve our reason, so do dubious words puzzle men. Locke. 2. Frail, not completely good: as our best worfhip is imperfect. (2.) IMPERFECT TENSE, in grammar, a tense that denotes fome preterite cafe, or denotes the thing to be at that time prefent, and not quite finished; as fcribebam, I was writing. * IMPERFECTION. n. f. [imperfection, Fr. from imperfect.] Defect; failure; fault; whether phyfical or moral; whether of perfons or things. -Laws, as all other things human, are many times full of imperfection; and that which is fuppofed behoveful unto men, proveth oftentimes moft pernicious. Hooker.-The duke had taken to wife Anne Stanhope, a woman for many imperfections intolerable; but for pride monftrous. Hayw. -Imperfections would not be half fo much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamations of them. L'Etrange.-The world is more apt to cenfure than applaud, and himself fuller of imperfections than virtues. Addifon.-Thefe are rather to be imputed to the fimplicity of the age than to any imperfection in that divine poet. Addif. * IMPERFECTLY. adv. [from imperfed.] Not completely; not fully; not without failure. Should finking nations fummon you away, Maria's love might juftify your ftay; Imperfedly the many vows are paid, Which for your fafety to the gods were made. Stepney. -Those would hardly understand language or reafon to any tolerable degree; but only a little and imperfedly about things familiar. Locke. * IMPERFORABLE. adj. (in and perforo, Lat.] Not to be bored through. IMPERFORATE. adj. [in and perforatus, Lat.] Not pierced through; without a hole. Sometimes children are born imperforate; in which cafe a fmall puncture, dreffed with a tent, effects the cure. Sharp. (1.) IMPERIAL. adj. [imperial, French, imperialis, Lat.] 1. Royal; poffeffing royalty. Aim he took The main body of the marching foe Against th' imperial palace is defign'd. Dryden. You that are a fov'reign prince, allay Imperial power with your paternal fway. Dryd. To tame the proud, the fetter'd flave to free, These are imperial arts, and worthy thee. Dryd. (2.) IMPERIAL. See EMPEROR and EMPIRE. (3.) IMPERIAL CHAMBER, a fovereign court, eftablished for the affairs of the immediate ftates of the empire. See CHAMBER, N° III. § 2. and GERMANY, 33. (4.) IMPERIAL CITIES, in Germany, are thofe which own no other head but the emperor. These are a kind of little commonwealths; the chief magiftrate whereof does homage to the emperor, but in other refpects, and in the administration of justice, is fovereign. They have a right to coin money, and to keep forces and fortified places. Their deputies affift at the imperial diets, where they are divided into branches, that of the Rhine and that of Suabia. There were formerly 22 in the former and 37 in the latter; but there were only 48 in all, before the late war, and the number is now ftill farther reduced. (5.) IMPERIAL CROWN. See HERALDRY, Chap. IV. Se&. I. (6.) IMPERIAL DIET, an affembly or convention of all the states of the empire. See DIET, § III. ii; and GERMANY, § 32. (7.) IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, a title given the United Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, fince Jan. 1. 1801, when the UNION of the three kingdoms was completed. IMPERIALE, a city of S. America, in Chili, 18 miles from the South Sea, feated on a steep neck of land, N. of the Cauten. In 1660, it was taken and burnt by the Indians, after a whole year's fiege, moft of the inhabitants having perished by famine. In the course of this war, the Indians. partly avenged the cruelties of the Spaniards on their countrymen. Lon. 84. 12. W. Lat. 39.41. S. (1.) IMPERIALI, John Baptift, a celebrated phyfician, of a noble family, born at Vicenza, in 1568. He was profeffor of philofophy and phyfic at Padua; and composed several esteemed worke in profe and verse, written in good Latin, particularly Exercitationes exotica: Venet. 1640; 4to. He died in 1623. (2.) IMPERIALI, John, the fon of the above, (N° 1.) born in 1602, was alfo a famous physician and author. He wrote 1. Mufaum Hiftoricum: 2. Mufaum Phyficum, five de humano ingenio; Ven. 1640. He died in 1653. * IMPERIALIST. n. J. [from imperial.] One that belongs to an emperor.-The imperialis imputed the cause of fo fhameful a flight unto the Venetians. Knolles. * IMPERIOUS. adj. imperieux, Fr. imperiofus, Lat.] 1. Commanding; tyrannical; authoritative; haughty; arrogant; affuming command.If it be your proud will To fhew the power of your imperious eyes. This imperious man will work us all Spenfer Shak Shak. Of the full fortun'd Cæfar ever shall Not th' imperious show Be brooch'd with me Shak -He 3. Belonging to an emperor or monarch; regals Foyal; monarchical →He is an imperious dictator of the principles of vice, and impatient of all contradiction. More.How much I fuffer'd, and how long I ftrove Againft th' affaults of this imperious love! Dryd. -Recollect what disorder hafty or imperious words from parents or teachers have caufed in his thoughts. Locke. 2. Powerful; afcendant; overbearing.-A man, by a vaft and imperious mind, and a heart large as the fand upon the fea fhore, could command all the knowledge of nature and art. Tillotfen. * IMPÉRIOUSLY. adv. [from imperious.] With arrogance of command; with infolence of authority. Who's there, that knocketh so imperiously? Shak. -Who can abide, that, against their own docters, fix whole books fhould, by their fatherhoods of Trent, be under pain of a curse, imperiously obtraded upon God and his church? Hall.It is not to infult and domineer, to look difdainfully, and revile imperiously, that procures an esteem Ar any one. South.-- The fage, tranfported at th' approaching hour, Imperiously, thrice thunder'd on the floor! Garth. IMPERIOUSNESS. n. f. [from imperious.] Authority; air of command. So would he de his imperiousness, that we had a delightful fear and awe, which made us loth to lofe our hopes. dney. 2. Arrogance of command.-Imperiousness and feverity is but an ill way of treating men, ho have reafon of their own to guide them. Lecke ⚫IMPERISHABLE. adj. [imperissable, Fr. in ad perib.] Not to be deftroyed. We find this our empyreal form Milton. (2) IMPERSONAL. adj. [imperfonal, Fr. imdis, Lat.] Not varied according to the per-Imperfonals be declined throughoutall moods attenfes, a verb imperfonal hath no nominative cafe before him. Accidence. (1)IMPERSONAL VERBS, in Latin grammar, are to which the nominative of any certain perbo cannot be prefixed; or, verbs deftitute of the firft and primary perfons, as decet, oportet, &c. The imperfonal verbs of the active voice end in and thofe of the paffive in tur; they are conjued through the third perfon fingular of almoft the tenfes and moods: they want the imperainftead of which the prefent of the fubjuncafed; as pæniteat, pugnetur, &c. nor, with exceptions, are they to be met with in the es, participles, or gerunds. IMPERSONALLY. adv. [from imperfonal.] Arding to the manner of an imperfonal verb. IMPERSUASIBLE. adj. [in and perfuafibilis, Not to be moved by perfuafion.-Every perion ought to be a Noah, a preacher of Fouinefs; and if it be his fortune to have as jable an auditory, if he cannot avert the ag, it will yet deliver his own foul, if he canbenefit other men's. Decag of Piety. * IMPERTINENCE. Įn. f. \impertinence, Fr. IMPERTINENCY. S from impertinent.] 1. That which is of no prefent weight; that which has no relation to the matter in hand.-Some, though they lead a single life, yet their thoughts do end with themselves, and account future times impertinencies. Bacon. 2. Folly; rambling thought. O, matter and impertinency mixt, Reafon and madness! Shak. 3. Troublesomeness; intrusion.-It will be faid I handle an art no way fuitable to my employments or fortune, and so ftand charged with intrufion and impertinency. Wotton.-We should avoid the vexation and impertinence of pedants, who affect to talk in language not to be understood. Swift. 4. Trifle; thing of no value.-I envy your felicity, delivered from the gilded impertinencies of life, to enjoy the moments of a folid contentment. Evelyn.--Nothing is more easy than to represent as impertinencies any parts of learning, that have no immediate relation to the happiness or convenience of mankind. Addison.-There are many fubtle impertinencies learnt in the schools, and many painful trifles, even among the mathematical theorems and problems. Watts. (1.) * IMPERTİNENT. adj. [impertinent, Fr. in and pertinens, Lat.] 1. Of no relation to the matter in hand; of no weight. The law of an gels we cannot judge altogether impertinent unto the affairs of the church of God. Hooker.-The contemplation of things that are impertinent to us, and do not concern us, are but a more fpecious idleness. Tillotson. 2. Importunate; intrufive; meddling. 3. Foolish; trifling; negligent of the prefent purpose.-'Tis not a fign two lovers are together, when they can be fo impertinent as to enquire what the world does. Pope. (2.) IMPERTINENT. n.. A trifler; a meddler; an intruder; one who enquires or interposes where he has no right or call. Governours would have enough to do to trouble their heads with the politics of every meddling officious impertinent. L'Etrange. 2. *IMPERTINENTLY. adv. [from impertinent.] 1. Without relation to the prefent matter. Troublefomely; officiously; intrufively.-I have had joy given me as prepofterously, and as impertinently, as they give it to men who marry where they do not love. Suckling. The bleffedeft of mortals, now the highest faint in the celeftial hierarchy, began to be fo impertinently importuned, that great part of the liturgy was addreffed folely to her. Hooker.Why will any man be fo impertinently officious as to tell me all this is only fancy? If it is a dream, let me enjoy it. Addison. * IMPERTRANSIBILITY. n.f. [in and perI willingly declined thofe many ingenious reatranfeo, Lat.] Impoffibility to be passed through. eternity, and impoffibility therein to attain to the fons given by others; as of the impertranfibility of prefent limit of antecedent ages. Hale. paffable; impenetrable.- Left the difficulty of passing back Το To found a path from hell to that new world. -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, Increase the darkness, and involve the skies. Pope. 2. Inacceffible. Perhaps improperly used.— A river's mouth impervious to the wind, And clear of rocks. Pope. * IMPERVIOUSNESS. n. f. [from impervious.] The ftate of not admitting any paffage. IMPETIGINOUS. adj. [from impetigo, Lat.] Scurfy; covered with small scabs. IMPETIGO, in medicine, an extreme roughnefs and foulnefs 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 humours 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, Lat. impetrable. Fr.] Poftible to be obtain ed. Dia. To IMPETRATE. v. a. (impetrer, Fr. impetra, Lat.] To obtain by intreaty. Dia. (i.) * IMPETRATION. n. S. Limpetration, Fr. impetratio, from impetro, Lat.] The act of obtain ing by prayer or intreaty. Not much used. The bleffed facrament is the mystery of the death of Chrift, and the application of his blood, which was fed 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 pray er, 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 disposal of the king and other lay patrons of the realm; the penalty whereof is the fame with that of provifors, 25 Edw. III. * IMPETUOSITY. n. f. [impetuofité, Fr. from impetuous.] Violence; fury; vehemence; force. -I will fet upon Aguecheek a notable report of valour, and drive the gentleman into a moit hideous opinion of his rage, skill, fury, and impetuofity. Shakefp. Twelfth Night-The whole intrigue was 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, Rolling its course, design'd their country's good; But oft the torrent's too impetuous speed, From the low earth tore fome polluted weed. 2. Vehement of mind; paffionate. Prior. The king, 'tis true, is noble, but impetuous. Rozve IMPETUOUSLY.adv. [from impetuous.] Violently; vehemently: both of men and things. They view the windings of the hoary Nar; Through rocks and woods impetuously he glides, While froth and foam the fretting furface hides. Addifon IMPETUOUSNESS. n. J. [from impetuous.] Violence; fury; vehemence of paffion.-I wish all words of rage might vanish in that breath that utters them; that, as they refemble the wind in fury and impetuoufness, fo they might in tranfientnefs. Decay of Piety. (1.) * IMPETUS,, n. f. [Latin.] Violent tendency to any point; violent effort.-Why did not they continue their defcent 'till they were contiguous to the fun, whither both mutual attraction and impetus carried them? Bentley's Sermons. (2.) IMPETUS, in mechanics, is the force with which one body strikes or impels another. * IMPIERCEABLE. adj. [in and pierce.] Impenetrable; not to be pierced. Exceeding rage inflam'd the furious beaft ; For never felt his impierceable breaft So wond'rous force from hand of living wight. Spenfer. IMPIETY. n. [impiété, French; impietas, Latin.] 1. Irreverence to the Supreme Being; contempt of the duties of religion.-. To keep that oath were more impiety. Than Jephtha's, when he facrific'd bis daugh 2. An act of wickedness; expreffion of irreligion. In this fenfe it has a plural. If they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of thofe impieties for which they are now vifited. Shak Can Juno fuch impieties approve? Denham. We have a melancholy profpect of the state of our religion; fuch amazing impieties can be equalled by nothing but by thofe cities confumed of old by fire. Swift. *To IMPIGNORATE. v. a. [in and pignus, Latin.] To pawn; to pledge. *IMPIGNORATION. n. f. [from impignorate.] The act of pawning or putting to pledge. *To IMPINGE. v. n.[impingo, Latin.] To fall againft; to strike against; to clash with.-Things are referved in the memory by fome corporal exuvia and material images, which, having impinge ed on the common fenfe, rebound thence into fume vacant cells of the brain. Glanville's Scopfis. The caufe of reflection is not the impinging of light on the folid or impervious part of bodies. Newton's Opticks. IMPINGTON, a town 3 m. N. of Cambridge. * To IMPINGUATE. v. a. [in and pingas, Lat.] To fatten; to make fat.-Frictions alfo do more fill and impinguate the body than exercife; for 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 God in any ftead to direct, but may be let país as needlefs to be confulted with, we judge it profane, impious, and irreligious to think. HookerCease then this impious rage. Milton Then lewd Auchemolus he laid in duft. Who |