reafon, hands, and materials, he should build him bridges. Locke. 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 post of honour is a private station. Addif. On herds devoted to the god of day. -Grand mistakes in religion proceed from taking literally what was meant figuratively, from which feveral impious abfurdities followed, terminating in infidelity. Forbes. * 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 is fo 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 afed by Dryden in a kind of mixed fenfe of a tyrant's love. I love, And 'tis below my greatnefs to difown 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 fettle; to fet; to fow. The original meaning, of putting a vegetable into the ground to grow, is not often used. How can you him unworthy then decree, In whofe chief part your worths implanted be? Sidney. See, Father! what firft-fruits on earth are fprung, From thy implanted grace in man! Milton. No need of public fanétions 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 fome muscles 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. * 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 school boys than the art of making plaufible or implausible 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 implements 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 implements of trade, to the house where they find em ployment. Brown. IMPLETION. n. f. [impleo, Latin.] The act of filling; the ftate 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; opposed 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 embarrafs; 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.f. [implicatio, Lat. implication, French, from implicate.] 1. Involution; entanglement.-Three principal caufes 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 less 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 shrub, Pope And bush with frizzl'd hair implicit. Thomfon. 2. Inferred; tacitly comprifed; not expreffed.In the first establishments of speech there was an implicit compact, founded upon common confent, that fuch and fuch words thould be figns, whereby they would exprefs their thoughts one to another. South.-Our expreís requests are not granted, but the implicit delires 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 falfe E peaces 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 infpection 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 unreserved 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. They ship their oars, and crown with wine The holy goblet to the pow'rs divine, Imploring all the gods that reign above. 2. To afk; to beg. Do not fay, 'tis fuperftition, that Pope. Shak. I kneel, and then implore her bleffing. With piercing words and pitiful implore, Fairy Queen. * IMPLORER. n. f. [from implore.] Solicitor. Mere implorers of unholy fuits, Breathing, like fanctified and pious, The better to beguile. Shak. *IMPLUMED. adj. [implumis, Latin.] Without feathers. Dia. (1.) * To IMPLY. v. a. [impliquer, French; implico, Latin.] 1. To unfold; to cover; to entangle. Not in use.— His courage ftout, Striving to loose the knot that faft him ties, Himself in straighter bonds too rash implies. Fairy Queen. And Phoebus flying fo moft fhameful fight, His blufhing face in foggy clouds implies. Fairy 2 2. 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 fay, its octave, its twelfth, and its feventeenth ; or, when reduced, its eighth, its fifth, and its third. But the fame found, when confidered as conftituting any part of harmony, is fubjected to other laws and different limitations. It can then only be faid to carry or imply fuch fimple founds, or complications of found, as the preceding and fubfequent chords admit or require. For these the laws of melody and harmony must be confulted. See HARMONY, and MELODY. * To IMPOISON. v. a. [empoifoner, Fr. It might be written empoison.] 1. To corrupt with poifon.One doth not know How much an ill word doth impoifon liking. Shak. 2. To kill with poifon. This is rare. See EMPOISON. A man by his own alms impoifon'd, And with his charity flain. Shak. * IMPOLARILY. adv. [in and polar.] Not according to the direction of the poles. Little used.-Being impolarily adjoined unto a more vigorous loadstone, it will, in a fhort time, exchange its poles. Brown. * IMPOLITICAL, IMPOLITIC. adj. [in and politic.] Imprudent; indifcreet; void of art or forecaft. He that exhorteth to beware of an enemy's policy, doth not give counsel to be impolitie; but rather to ufe all prudent forefight and circumfpection, left our fimplicity be over-reach'd by cunning flights. Hooker. *IMPOLITICALLY. Į adv. [in and political.] * IMPOLITICKLY. Without art or forecaft. *IMPONDEROUS, adj. [in and ponderous.] Void of perceptible weight.-It produces vifible and real effects by imponderous and invifible emiffions. Brown's Vulgar Errours. *IMPOROSITY. n. f. [in and porous.] Absence of interstices; compactness; closeness.-The porolity or imporofity betwixt the tangible parts, and the greatnefs or fmallness of the pores. Bacon. *IMPOROUS. adj. [in and porous.] Free from pores; free from vacuities or interftices; clofe of texture; completely folid.-It has its earthly and falinous parts fo exactly refolved, that its body is left imporous, and not difcreted by atomical terminations. Brown's Vulgar Errours.-If atoms fhould defcend plumb down with equal velocity, being all perfectly folid and imporous, they would never the one overtake the other. Ray on the Creation. *IMPORT. n. f. [from the verb.] 1. Importance; 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 feem 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 caufe. Ayliffe. 2. Tendency.-Add to the former obfervations made about vegetables a third of the fame import made in mineral fubftances. 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 export For Elis I would fail with utmost speed, T'import twelve mares, which there luxurious feed. Pope. -Himfelf not only comprehended all our neceffities, but in fuch fort alfo framed every petition, as might moft naturally serve for many; and dotb, though not always require, yet always import a multitude of speakers together. Hooker. The name of discipline importeth not as they would fain have it conftrued; but the felf-fame thing it fignifieth, which the name of doctrine doth. Hooker. -This queftion we now asked, imported, as that we thought this land a land of magicians. Bacon. 3. To produce in confequence. Something he left imperfect in the ftate, Which fince his coming forthisthought of, which Imports the kingdom fo much fear and danger, That return was most requir'd. Shak. K. Lear. 4. [Importer, importe, French. Imperfonally. To be of moment: as, it imports, it is of weight or confequence. Her length of fickness, with what else more ferious Importeth thee to know, this bears. Shak. -Let the heat be fuch as may keep the metal perpetually molten; for that above all importeth to the work. Bacon.-Number in armies importetb Bot much, where the people is of weak courage. Bacon. This to attain, whether heav'n move, or earth, Imports not, if thou reckon right. Milton. -It may import us in this calm to hearken more than we have done to the ftorms that are now rai. fing abroad. Temple. If I endure it, what imports it you? Dryden. * IMPORTABLE. adj. [in and portable.] Unfupportable: not to be endured. A word accented by Spenfer on the first fyllable. It is used in -the Apocrypha. Both at once him charge on either side, Fairy Queen. * IMPORTANCE. n. f. [French.] 1. Thing imported or implied. Rare.-A notable paffion of wonder appeared in them; but the wifeft beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not fay if the importance were joy or forrow. Shak. 2. Matter; fubject. Not in ufe.-It had been pity you should have been put together with so mortal a purpose, as then each bore, upon importance of fo flight a nature. Shakespeare's Gymbeline. 3. Confequence; moment. We confider Th' importance of Cyprus to the Turks. Shak Thy own importance know, Nor bound thy narrow views to things below. Pope. 4. Importunity. An improper use peculiar to Shakespeare. Maria writ The letter at Sir Toby's great importance; Inrecompence whereof he hath married her. Shak. *IMPORTANT, adj. [important, French.] 1. Momentous; weight; of great confequence. The most important and preffing care of a new and vigorous king was his marriage, for mediate establishment of the royal line. Wotton.-This fuperadds treachery to the crime: 'tis the falfifying the most important trust. Decay of Piety. O then, what interest shall I make To fave my laft important stake, When the most juft have caufe to quake? Rofcom. The great important end that God defigns religion for, the government of mankind, fufficiently fhews the neceffity of its being rooted deep in the heart, and put beyond the danger of being torn up by any ordinary violence. South-Examine how the fashionable practice of the world can be reconciled to the important doctrine of our religion. Rogers.Important truths ftill let your fables hold, And moral myfteries with art unfold. Grenv. Th' important hour had pass'd unheeded by. Irene. 2. Momentous; forcible; of great efficacy. This feems to be the meaning here. Shak. (1.) IMPORTATION. n. f. [from import.] The act or practice of importing, or bringing into a country from abroad: opposed to exportation. The king's reasonable profit fhould not be neglected upon importation and exportation. Bacon.Thefe mines fill the country with greater numbers of people than it would be able to bear, without the importation of corn from foreign parts. Addison on Italy. The emperor has forbidden the importation of their manufactures into any part of the empire. Addifon. (2.) IMPORTATION. See EXPORTATION, and TRADE. (3.) IMPORTATION, LAWS RESPECTING. See LAWS, N° 10, 11, and CUSTOM-HOUSE. *IMPORTER. n. f. [from import. One that brings in from abroad. It is impoffible to limit the quantity that fhall be brought in, efpecially if the importers of it have fo fure a market as the Exchequer. Swift. IMPORTLESS. adj. [from import.] Of no moment or confequence. This is a word not in use, but not inelegant.We less expect, That matter needlefs, of importless burthen, *IMPORTUNATE. adj. limportunus, Latin; importune, Fr. Unfeasonable and inceffant in folicitations; not to be repulfed.-I was in debt to my importunate business; but he would not hear my excufe. Shab.-They may not be able to bear the clamour of an importunate fuitor. Smalridge. -A rule restrains the most importunate appetites of our nature. Rogers. *IMPORTUNATELY. adv. [from importunate.] With inceffant folicitation; pertinaciously in petition.-Their pertinacy is fuch, that when E 2 you you drive them out of one form, they affume another; and are fo importunately troublesome, as makes many think it impoffible to be freed from them. Duppa's Rules of Devotion. * IMPÓRTUNATENESS. n. f. [from importunate.] Inceffant folicitation. She with more and more importunatenefs craved, which, in all good manners, was either of us to be defired, or not granted. Sidney. * IMPORTUNE. adj. [importunus, Latin. It was anciently pronounced with the accent on the fecond fyllable.] 1. Conftantly recurring; troublefome by frequency. All that charge did fervently apply, With greedy malice and importune toil; And planted there their huge artillery, With which they daily made moft dreadful battery: Spenfer. -Henry, king of England, needed not to have beftowed fuch great fums, nor fo to have bufied himself with importune and inceffant labour, to compass my death and ruin, if I had been a feigned perfon. Bacon, 2. Troublefome; vexatious. And th' armies of their creatures all, and fome Do ferve to them, and with importune might War against us, the vaffals of their will. Spenf. -If the upper foul can 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 importune rebellious fervant fhall be eternally caft off, this would be fome colour for that novel perfuafion. Ham. The fame airs, which 'fome entertain with moft delightful transports, to others are importunes' Glanv. 3. Unfeafonable; coming, afking, or happening at a wrong time.No fair to thine "Equivalent, or fecond! which compell'd Me tinis, though importune perhaps, to come རྒྱུན And gaze and worship thee. Milton. TO IMPORTUNE, v. a. [importuner, Fr. im"portunus, Lat. Accented anciently on the fecond fyllable.] To teaze; to harass with flight vexation perpetually recurring; to moleft.— Against all fenfe you do importune her. Shak.. If he efpied any lewd gaiety in his fellow-fervants, his master should straightways know it, and not reft free from importuning, until the fellow had put away his fault. Carca.-The higheft faint in the celeftial hierarchy began to be fo impertinently importuned, that a great part of the liturgy was addressed solely to her. Howel's Vocal Foref.— The bloom of beauty other years demands, Nor will be gather'd by fuch wither'd hands: You importune it with a falfe defire. Dryden. -Every one hath experimented this troublefome intrufion of fome frifking ideas, which thus importune the understanding, and hinder it from being employed. Locke. We have been obliged to hire troops from feveral princes of the empire, whofe minifters and refidents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands. Swift. *IMPORTUNELY. adv. [from importune.] 7. Troublefomely; inceffantly.— 2 The palmer bent his car unto the noife, 2. Unfeafonably; improperly. The conftitutions that the apostles made concerning deacons and widows, are, with much importunity, but very importunely, urged by the difciplinarians. Sanderf. IMPORTUNITY. n. f. [importunitas, Latin; importunité, Fr. from importunate.] Inceffant folicitation.-Overcome with the importunity of his wife, a woman of a haughty spirit, be altered his former purpose. Knolles Thrice I deluded her, and turn'd to sport Her importunity. Milton's Agonistes*IMPOSE. n. [from the verb.] Command; injunction. Not in ufe. According to your ladyfhip's impofe, I am thus early come Shak. *To IMPOSE. v. a. [impofer, French; impofitum, Latin.] 1. To lay on as a burthen or penalty.It shall not be lawful to impose tall upon them. Ezra vii.-If a fon do fall into a lewd action, the imputation, by your rule, should be imposed upon his father. Shakespeare. To tyrants others have their country fold, Impofing foreign lords for foreign gold. Dryd. On impious realms and barb'rous kings impofe Thy plagues, and curfe them with fuch ills as thofe. Pope. 2. To enjoin as a duty or law. What good or evil is there under the fun, what action correfpondent or repugnant unto the law which God hath imposed upon his creatures, but in or upon it God doth work, according to the law which himself hath eternally purposed to keep? Hooker.-There was a thorough way made by the fword for the imposing of the laws upon them. Spenfer on Ireland. Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws, And by that juftice haft remov'd the cause. Waller. -Christianity hath hardly imposed any other laws upon us, but what are enacted in our natures, or are agreeable to the prime and fundamental laws of it. Tillotson. Impose but your commands, This hour hall bring you twenty thousand hands. Dryden. It was neither imposed on me, nor fo much as the fubject given me by any man. Dryden. 3. To fix on; to impute to. This cannot be allowed, except we impute that unto the firft caufe which we impofe not on the fecond; or what we deny unto nature, we impute unto nativity itself. Breaun. 4. To obtrude fallaciously. Our poet thinks fit T'impofe upon you what he writes for wit. Dryden. 5. To IMPOSE on. To put a cheat on; to deceive, Phyficians and philofophers have fuffered themfelves to be fo far impoled upon as to publish chy. mical experiments, which they never tried. Boyle. He that thinks the name centaur ftands for fome real being, imposes on himself, and miftakes words for things. Locke. 6. [Among printers.] To put the pages on the ftone, and fit on the chases, in order to carry the forms to prefs. IMPOSEABLE. adj. [from impofe.] To be laid as obligatory on any body. They were not fimply impofeable on any particular man, farther than he was a member of fome church. Hammond. IMPOSER. 11. f. [from impoje.] One who eu joins as a law; one who lays any thing on another as a hardship.-The univerfities fufferings might be manifefted to all nations, and the impofers of thefe oaths might repent. Walton. (1.)* IMPOSITION. n. f. impofition, French; impofitus, Lat.] 1. The act of laying any thing on another. The fecond part of confirmation is the prayer and benediction of the bishop, made more folemn by the impofition of hands. Hammond. 2. The act of annexing.-The firft impofition of names was grounded, among all nations, upon future good hope conceived of children. Camden.-The impofition of the name is grounded only upon the predominancy of that element, whofe name is afcribed to it. Boyle. 3. Injunction of any thing as a law or duty.-Their determination is to trouble you with no more fuit, unless you may be won by fome other fort than your father's impofition, depending on the caskets. Shakef. From impofition of ftrict laws, to free Thefe impofitions were fupply'd, Progress of Difcontent. (I.) IMPOSSIBILITY. n. f. [imposibilité, Fr. from impoffible.] 1. Impracticability; the ftate of being not feasible.-Simple Philoclea, it is the impoffibility that doth torment me; for unlawful defires are punished after the effect of enjoying, but impoffible defires in the defire itself. Sidney-Admit all these impoffibilities and great abfurdities to be poffible and convenient. Whitgift. Let the mutinous winds Strike the proud cedars 'gainst the fiery fun, What cannot be, flight work. Shak. Coriolanus. -They confound difficulty with impoffibility. South. Thofe who affert the impoffibility of space exifting without matter, mult make body infinite. Locke-When we fee a man of like paflions and weaknefs with ourselves going before us in the paths of duty, it confutes all lazy pretences of impoffibility. Rogers. 2. That which cannot be done. -Though men do, without offence, with daily that the affairs, which with evil fuccefs are palt, might have fallen out much better; yet to pray that they may have been any other than they are, this being a manifeft impoffibility in itself, the rules of religion do not permit. Hooker. Impoffibilities! oh no, there's none, Could I bring thy heart captive home. Cowley. (II.) IMPOSSIBILITY is either phyfical or moral, I. IMPOSSIBILITY, MORAL, is when any thing, in its own nature, is poffible, but yet is attended with fuch difficulties, as that, all things confider. ed, it appears impoffible. Thus it is morally impoffible that all men fhould be virtuous; or that a man should throw the fame number with three dice too times fucceffively. 2. IMPOSSIBILITY, PHYSICAL, is that which is contrary to the law of nature. * (1.) IMPOSSIBLE. adj. [impoffible, Fr. in and poffible.] Not to be done; not to be attained; impracticable. It was impoffible that the ftate fhould continue quiet. 2 Mac. With men this is impoffible; but with God all things are poflible. Matt. xix. 26.-'Twere impossible for any enterprise to be lawful, if that which thould legitimate it is fubfe quent to it. Decay of Piety.-Difficult it is, but not impoffible. Chillingworth. It is impoffible the mind fhould be stopped any where in its progrefs in this space, how far foever it extends its thoughts. Locke. We cannot believe it impossible to God to make a creature with more ways to convey into the understanding the notice of corporal things than five. Locke. I my thoughts deceive With hope of things impoffible to find. Walsh. (2.) IMPOSSIBLE. A propofition is said to be impoffible, when it contains two ideas which mutually deftroy each other, and which can neither be conceived nor united together. Thus it is impoffible that a circle fhould be a square; because we conceive clearly that squarenefs and roundness destroy each other by the contrariety of their figure. A thing which is impoffible in law, is the fame with a thing impoffible in nature: and if any thing in a bond or deed be impoffible to be done, fuch deed, &c. is void. 21 Car. I. * (1.) IMPOST. n. f. [impoft, impôt, Fr. impofitum, Lat.] A tax; a toll; cuftom paid.-Taxes and imports upon merchants do feldom good to the |