the king's revenue: for that that he wins in the (3-) IMPOSTS. n. f. [impofle, Fr.] In architecture, that part of a pillar, in vaults and arches, on which the weight of the whole building lieth. Ainsworth. (1.) To IMPOSTHUMATE. v. a. (from impofthume.] To afflict with an impofthume. They would not fly that furgeon, whofe lancet threatens none but the impofthumated parts. Dec. of Piety. (2.) To IMPOSTHUMATE. v. 2. To form an abfcefs; to gather; to form a cyft or bag containing matter. The braife impofthumated, and afterwards turned to a ftinking ulcer, which made every body shy to come near her. Arbuthnot. he was prefently deferted, and never able to crow his ufurped greatnefs with that title. SouthForm new legends, And fill the world with follies and impostures. Iren (1.) * IMPOTENCE. IMPOTENCY. n. f. [impo tentia, Lat.] 1. Want of power; inability; imb cility; weakness. Some were poor by impotend of nature; as young fatherless children, old de crepit perfons, ideots, and cripples. Sir J. Hayu Weakness, or the impotence of exercising anima motion, attends fevers. Arbuth.-God is a frien and a father, whofe care fupplies our wants, and defends our impotence, and from whofe compa fion in Chrift we hope for eternal glory hereafter Rogers. This is not a restraint or impotency, bu the royal prerogative of the moft abfolute king o kings; that he wills to do nothing but what h can; and that he can do nothing which is repug nant to his divine goodness. Bentley. 2. Ungo vernableness of paflion. A Latin fignification: an impotentia.— * IMPOSTHUMATION. n. f. [from impofthumate.] The act of forming an impofthume; the ftate in which an impoftume is formed. He that maketh the wound bleed inwards, endangereth_mi malign ulcers and pernicious impofthumations. Bacon's Effays. (1.) * IMPOSTHUME. n. f. [This seems to have been formed by corruption from impostem, as South writes it; and impoftem to have been written erroneously for apoftem, anornua, an abscess.] A collection of purulent matter in a bag or cyft.Now rotten diseases, ruptures, catarrhs, and bladders full of impofthumes, make prepofterous difcoveries. Shak. An error in the judgment is like an impoftem in the head, which is always noisome, and frequently mortal. South-Fumes cannot tranfude through the bag of an impofthume. Harvey. (2.) An IMPOSTHUME, OF ABSCESS, in any part of the body, is either owing to an obstruction of the fluids in that part which makes them change into fuch matter, or to a tranflation of it from fome other part where it was generated. See SURGERY, Index, under the word Abscesses. (1.)*IMPOSTOR. n.f. [impofteur, Fr. from impofe; impofitor, Lat.] One who cheats by a fictitious character. Shame and pain, poverty and fickness, yea death and hell itfeif, are but the trophies of thofe fatal conquefts got by that grand impostor, the devil, over the deluded sons of men. South. (2.) IMPOSTORS, RELIGIOUS, are fuch as falfe. ly pretend to an extraordinary commiffion from heaven; and who terrify and abuse the people with falfe denunciations of judgments. Thefe are punishable in the temporal courts with fine, imprisonment, and infamous corporal punishment. * IMPOSTURE. n. f. [impofture, Fr. impoftura, Lat.] Cheat; fraud; fuppofitioufnefs; cheat committed by giving to perfons or things a falfe character. That the foul and angels have nothing to do with groffer locality, is generally opinioned; but who is it that retains not a great part of the impofture, by allowing them a definitive ubi, which is ftill but imagination? Glanville's Scepfis.-Open to them fo many of the interior fecrets of this myfterious art, without impofture or invidious referve. Evelyn. We know how fuccefsful the late ufurper was, while his army believed him real in his zeal againft kingship; but when they found out the imposture, upon his afpiring to the fame himself, Will he, fo wife, let loofe at once his ire, Milton Yet all combin'd, Your beauty and my impotence of mind. Dryd 3. Incapacity of propagation. Pope Dulnels with obscenity muft prove As hateful, sure, as impotence in love. (2.) IMPOTENCE, in moral agency. Divines and philofophers diftinguifh two forts of impotency natural and moral. The firft is a want of fome phyfical principle, neceflary to an action; o where a being is abfolutely defective, or not free and at liberty to act: The fecond only imports a great difficulty; as a strong habit to the contrary, a violent paffion, or the like. (3.) IMPOTENCE, (1, def. 3.) is a canonical dif ability, to avoid marriage in the fpiritual court. The marriage is not void ab initio, but viodable only by fentence of feparation during the life of the parties. (4.) IMPOTENCE, (§ 1, def. 3.) in men, is the fame as fterility in women. (5.) IMPOTENCE, CAUSES OF. There are many caufes of impotence; as, a natural defect in the organs of generation, which feldom admits of a cure: accidents or difeafes; and in fuch cafes the impotence may or may not be remedied, according as these are curable or otherwife.-The mo common caufes are, early and immoderate venery, or the venereal difeafe. We have inftances, however, of unfitness for generation in men, by an im pediment to the ejection of the femen in coition, from a wrong direction which the orifice at the verumontanum got, whereby the feed was thrown up into the bladder. M. Petit cured one patient under fuch a difficulty of emiffion, by making an incision like to that commonly made in the great operation for the ftone. The late Mr J. HUNTER, in his Treatife on the Venereal Difcafe, (p. 201, &c.) confiders impotency as depending upon two caufes. One he refers to the mind; the other to the organs: I. IMPOTENCY DEPENDING UPON THE MIND. Mr it may very often happen, that the ftate of mind will be fuch as not to allow the animal to exert its natural powers; and every failure increases the evil. We muft alfo fee from this ftate of the cafe, that this act must be often interrupted; and the true caufe of this interruption not being known, it will be laid to the charge of the body or want of powers. As these cases do not arife from real inability, they are to be carefully diftinguished from fuch as do; and perhaps the only way to diftinguish them is, to examine into the ftate of mind refpecting this act. So trifling often is the circumftance which fhall produce this inability depending on the mind, that the very defire to please fhall have that effect, as in making the woman the fole object to be gratified. Cafes of this kind we fee every day; one of which I fhall relate, as an illuftration of this fubject, and also of the method of cure.-A gentleman told me, that he had loft his virility. After above an hour's inveftigation of the cafe, I made out the following facts: that he had at unneceffary times ftrong erections, which showed that he had naturally this power; that the erections were accompanied with defire, which are all the natural powers wanted; but that there was ftill a defect fomewhere, which I fuppofed to be from the mind. I inquired if all women were alike to him? his answer was, No; fome women he could have connection with as well as ever. This brought the defect, whatever it was, into a fmaller compafs: and it appeared there was but one woman that produced this inability, and that it arofe from a defire to perform the act with this woman well; which defire produced in the mind a doubt or fear of the want of fuccefs, which was the caufe of the inability of performing the act. As this arofe entirely from the ftate of the mind produced by a particular circumftance, the mind was to be applied to for the cure; and I told him that he might be cured, if he could perfectly rely on his own power of felf-denial. When I explained what I meant, he told me that he could depend upon every act of his will or refolution. I then told him, that, if he had a perfect confidence in himself in that respect, he was to go to bed to this woman, but first promife to himself that he would not have any connection with her for fix nights, let his inclinations and powers be what they would; which he en gaged to do, and alfo to let me know the refult. About a fortnight after, he told me, that this refolution had produced fuch a total alteration in the ftate of his mind, that the power foon took place; for inftead of going to bed with the fear of inability, he went with fears that he should be poffeffed with too much defire, too much power, fo as to become uneafy to him: which really hap pened; for he would have been happy to have thortened the time; and when he had once broke the fpell, the mind and powers went on together, and his mind never returned to its former ftate.” MrHunter obferves, that as the "parts of generation are not neceffary for the existence or fupport of the individual, but have a reference to fomething else in which the mind has a principal concern; fo a complete action in thofe parts cannot take place without a perfect harmony of body and of mind: that is, there must be both a power of body and difpofition of mind; for the mind is fubject to a thousand caprices, which affect the actions of thefe parts. Copulation is an act of the body, the fpring of which is in the mind; but it is not volition: and according to the ftate of the miad, fo is the act performed. To perform this adt well, the body should be in health, and the mind fhould be perfectly confident of the powers of the body: the mind should be in a ftate entire ly difengaged from every thing else: it fhould have no difficulties, no fears, no apprehenfions, not even an anxiety to perform the act well; for even this anxiety is a ftate of mind different from what fhould prevail; there fhould not be even a fear that the mind itself may find a difficulty at the time the act should be performed. Perhaps no function of the machine depends fo much upon the state of the mind as this, The will and reaioning faculty have nothing to do with this power; they are only employed in the act, fo far as voluntary parts are made ufe of: and if they ever interfere, which they fometimes do, often produces another state of mind, which deftroys that which is proper for the performance of the act; it produces a defire, a wifh, a hope, which are all only diffidence and uncertainty, and create in the mind the idea of a poffi. bility of the want of fuccefs, which deftroys the proper ftate of mind or neceffary confidence. There is perhaps no act in which a man feels himfelf more interested, or is more anxious to perform well; his pride being engaged in fome degree, which if within certain bounds would produce a degree of perfection in an act depending upon the will, or an act in voluntary parts; but when it produces a ftate of mind contrary to that ftate on which the perfection of the act depends, a failure must be the confequence. The body is not only rendered incapable of performing this act by the mind being under the above influence, but alfo by the mind being, though perfectly confident of its power, yet confcious of an impropriety in performing it; this, in many cafes, produces a ftate of mind which fhall take away all power. The ftate of a man's mind refpecting his fifter takes away all power. A confcientious man has been known to lose his powers, on finding the woman he was going to be connected with unexpectedly a virgin. Shedding tears arifes entirely from the ftate of the mind, although not fo much a compound action as the act in queftion; for none are fo weak in body that they cannot fhed tears: it is not fo much a compound action of the mind and ftrength of body joined, as the other act is; yet if we are afraid of fhedding tears, or are defirous of doing it, and that anxiety is kept up through the whole of an affecting fcene, we certainly fhall not fhed tears, or at leaft not fo freely as would have happened from our natural feelings. From this account of the neceffity of having the mind independent refpecting the act, we must see that II. IMPOTENCY FROM A WANT OF PROPER CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE ACTIONS OF THE DIFFERENT ORGANS! Mr Hunter, in a former part of his Treatife, when confidering the difeafes of the urethra and bladder, had remarked, that every organ in an animal body, without exception, was made up of different parts, whofe functions functions or actions were totally different from one another, although all tending to produce one ultimate effect. In all fuch organs when perfect (he obferves,) there is a fucceffion of motions, one naturally arifing out of the other, which in the end produces the ultimate effect; and an irregularity alone in these actions will conftitute difeafe, at least will produce very disagreeable effects, and often totally fruftrate the intention of the organ. This principle Mr Hunter, on the prefent occafion, applies to the " actions of the tefticles and penis: for we find that an irregularity in the actions of thefe parts fometimes happens in men, producing impotence; and fomething fimilar probably may be one cause of barrennefs in women. In men, the parts fubfervient to generation may be divided into two; the effential, and the accef. fory. The testicles are the effential; the penis, &c. the acceffory. As this divifion arifes from their uses or actions in health, which exactly correfpond with one another, a want of exactnefs in the correfpondence or fufceptibility of thofe actions may alfo be divided into two: where the actions are reversed, the acceffory taking place without the firft or effential, as in erections of the penis, where neither the mind nor the tefticles are ftimulated to action; and the ad is where the tef ticles perform the action of fecretion too readily for the penis, which has not a correfponding erection. The firft is called PRIAPISM; and the 2d is what ought to be called feminal weakness. The mind has confiderable effect on the correfpondence of the actions of these two parts: but it would appear, in many inftances,,that erections of the penis depend more on the ftate of the mind than the fecretion of the femen does; for many have the fecretion, but not the erection; but in fuch, the want of erection appears to be owing to the mind only. Priapifm often arifes fpontane oufly; and often from vifible irritation of the penis, as in the venereal gonorrhoea, especially when violent. The fenfation of fuch erections is rather uneafy than pleasant; nor is the fenfation of the glans at the time fimilar to that arifing from the erections of defire, but more like the fenfation of the parts immediately after coition. Such as arife fpontaneously are of more ferious confequence than those from inflammation, as they proceed probably from caufes not curable in themfelves or by any known methods. The priapifm arifing from inflammation of the parts, as in a gonorrhoea, is attended with nearly the fame fymptoms; but generally the fenfation is that of pain, proceeding from the inflammation of the parts. It may be obferved, that what is faid of priapifm is only applicable to it when a disease in itself, and not when a fymptom of other difeafes, which is frequently the cafe. The common practice in the cure of this complaint is to order all the nervous and ftrengthening medicines; fuch as bark, valerian, mufk, camphor, and alfo the cold bath. I have feen good effects from the cold bath; but fome times it does not agree with the conftitution, in which cafe I have found the warm bath of fervice Opium appears to be a specific in many cafes from which circumftance I should be apt, upor the whole, to try a foothing plan. Seminal weak nefs, or a fecretion and emiffion of the femer without erections, is the reverfe of a priapifm and is by much the worst difeafe of the two There is great variety in the degrees of this dif eafe, there being all the gradations from the exac correfpondence of the actions of all the parts to the tefticles acting alone; in every cafe of the dif eafe, there is too quick a fecretion and evacua tion of the femen. Like the priapifm, it does not arife from defires and abilities; although when mild it is attended with both, but not in a due proportion; a very flight defire often producing the full effect. The fecretion of the femen fhal be fo quick, that fimple thought, or even toying fhall make it flow. Dreams have produced this evacuation repeatedly in the fame night; and even when the dreams have been fo flight, that there has been no consciousness of them when the fleep has been broken by the act of emiffion. I have known cafes where the testicles have been fo ready to fecrete, that the least friction on the glans has produced an emiffion: I have known the fimple action of walking or riding produce this effect, and that repeatedly, in a very short space of time. A young man about 24 or 25 years of age, not fo much given to venery as moft young men, had these laft mentioned complaints upon him. Three or four times in the night he would emit; and if he walked faft, or rode on horfeback, the fame thing would happen. He could scarcely have connection with a woman before he emitted, and in the emiffion there was hardly any fpafm. He tried every fuppofed ftrengthening medicine, as alfo the cold-bath and fea-bathing, but with no effect. By taking 20 drops of laudanum on going to bed, he prevented the night emiffions; and by taking the fame quantity in the morning, he could walk or ride without the before mentioned inconvenience. I directed this practice to be continued for fome time, although the disease did not return, that the parts might be accustomed to this healthy ftate of action; and I have reafon to believe the gentleman is now well. It was found neceffary, as the constitution became more habituated to the opiate, to increase the dofe of it. The fpafms, upon the evacuation of the femen in fuch cafes, are extremely flight, and a repetition of them foon takes place; the first emiffion not preventing a fecond; the conftitution being all the time but little affected.t When the tefticles act alone, without the acceffory parts taking up the neceffary and natural confequent action, it is ftill a more melancholy difeafe; for the fecretion arifes from no visible or fenfible caufe, and does not give any vifible or fenfible effect, but runs off fimilar to involuntary ftools or urine. It has been obferved, that the femen is more fluid than natural in fome of thefe cafes. There is great variety in the dif eafed actions of thefe parts; of which the follow ing "It is to be confidered, that the conftitution is commonly affected by the fpafms only, and in proportion to their violence, independent of the fecretion and evacuation of the femen. But in fome cafes, even the erection going off without the fpafms on the emiflion, fhall produce the fame debility as if they had taken place." ing cafe may be confidered as an example. A gentleman has had a ftricture in the urethra for many years, for which he has frequently used a bougie, but of late has neglected it. He has had no connection with women for a confiderable time, being afraid of the confequences. He has often in his fleep involuntary emiffions, which generally awaken him at the paroxyfm; but what furprises him moft is, that often he has fuch without any femen paffing forwards through the penis, which makes him think that at those times it goes backwards into the bladder. This is not always the cafe, for at other times the femen paffes forwards. At the time the femen feems to pass into the bladder, he has the erection, the dream, and is awaked with the fame mode of action, the fame fenfation, and the same pleasure, as when it pasfes through the urethra, whether dreaming or waking. My opinion is, that the fame irritation takes place in the bulb of the urethra without the femen, that takes place there when the femen enters in confequence of all the natural preparatory fleps, whereby the very fame actions are excited as if it came into the paffage: from which one would fuppofe, that either femen is not fecreted'; or if it be, that a retrograde motion takes place in the actions of the acceleratores urinæ. But if the first be the cafe, then we may fuppofe, that in the natural state the actions of thofe mufcles do not arife fimply from the ftimulus of the femen in the part, but from their action being a termination of a preceding one making part of a series of actions. Thus they may depend upon the friction, or the imagination of a friction, on the penis; the tefticles not doing their part, and the spasm in such cases arifing from the friction and not from the fecretion. In many of thofe cafes of irregularity, when the erection is not ftrong, it fhall go off without the emiffion; and at other times an emiffion fhall happen almoft without an erection; but thefe arife not from debility, but affections of the mind. In many of the preceding cafes, washing the penis, fcrotum, and perinæum, with cold water, is often of fervice; and to render it colder than we find it in fome feafons of the year, common falt may be added to it, and the parts washed when the falt is almoft diffolved." *IMPOTENT. [adv. impotent, Fr. impotens, Lat. 1. Weak; feeble; wanting force; wanting power. We that are ftrong must bear the imbecility of the impotent, and not please ourselves. Hooker. Yet wealth is impotent To gain dominion, or to keep it gain'd. Milton. I knew thou wert not flow to hear, Nor impotent to fave Addifon's SpeЯator. 2. Difabled by nature or difeafe. In thofe porches lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, and withered. John v. 3.-There fat a certain man, impetent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked. AЯs xiv. I have learn'd that fearful commenting Is leaden fervitor to dull delay; Delay leads impotent and fnail-pac'd beggary. Shak, VOL. XII. PART I. The impotent poor might be reliev'd, and the idle forc'd to labour. Temple. 3. Without power of reftraint. [Animi impotens.]— With jealous eyes at diftance fhe had seen, Whifp'ring with Jove, the filver-footed queen; Then impotent of tongue, her filence broke, Thus turbulent in rattling tone fhe spoke. Dryd. 4. Without power of propagation. He told beau Prim, who is thought impotent, that his mistress would not have him, because he is a floven, and had committed a rape. Tatler. *IMPOTENTLY. adv. [from impotent.] without power. Proud Cæfar, 'midst triumphal cars, The spoils of nations, and the pomp of wars, Ignobly vain, and impotently great, Shew'd Rome her Cato's figure drawn in state. Pope. * To IMPOUND. v. a. [in and pound. See PoUND.] 1. To inclofe as in a pound; to shut in; to confine. The great care was rather how to impound the rebels, that none of them might efcape, than that any doubt was made to vanquifh them. Bacon. 2. To fhut up in a pinfold.England Hath taken and impounded as a stray Shak. Seeing him wander about, I took him up for a ftray, and impounded him, with intention to restore him to the right owner. Dryden. To IMPOWER. See EMPOWER. * IMPRACTICABLE. [adj. impracticable, Fr. in and practicable.] 1. Not to be performed; unfeasible; impoffible.-Had there not been ftill remaining bodies, the legitimate offsprings of the antediluvian earth, 'twould have been an extravagant and impracticable undertaking to have gone about to determine any thing concerning it. Woodward. To preach up the neceflity of that which our experience tells us is utterly impracticable, were to fright mankind with the terrible profpect of univerfal damnation. Rogers. 2. Untrace table; unmanageable; stubborn.— The fierce impra&icable nature Is govern'd by a dainty-finger'd girl. Rowe. * IMPRACTICABLENESS. n. f. [from impracticable.] 1. Impoffibility.-I do not know a greater mark of an able minifter than that of rightly adapting the several faculties of men, nor is any thing more to be lamented than the imprac ticableness of doing this. Swift. 2. Untractable. nefs; ftubbornness. *To IMPRECATE. v. a. [imprecor, Lat.] To call for evil upon himself or others. (1.) * IMPRECATION. n. f. imprecatio, Lat. imprecation, from imprecate.] Curfe; prayer by which any evil is wished to another or himself.My mother shall the horrid furies raise With imprecations. Chapman. Sir John Hotham, uncurfed by any imprecation of mine, paid his own and his eldeft fon's heads, King Charles With imprecations thus he fill'd the air, And angry Neptune heard th' unrighteous pray'r. Pope. (2.) IMPRECATIONS, in antiquity. The ancients invoked the Furies with prayers and pieces F to Yet rung of his perfuafive words, impregn'd With reafon to her feeming. Milton. Th' unfruitful rock itself imprégn'd by thee, Forms lucid tones. Thom/on. *IMPREGNABLE. adj. [imprenable. Fr.] 1. Not to be ftormed; not to be taken.-Two giants kept themfelves in a caftle, feated upon the top of a rock, impregnable, because there was no coming to it but by one narrow path, where one man's force was able to keep down an army. Sidney.Let us be back'd with God, and with the feas, Which he hath given for fence impregnable, And with their helps alone defend ourselves. Haft thou not him, and all Which he calls his, inclofed with a wall Of strength impregnable? There the capitol thou feeft, Above the reft lifting his ftately head On the Tarpeian rock, her citadel Impregnable. Shak. Sandys Milton. 2. Unfhaken; unmoved; unaffected; invincible. -The man's affections remain wholly unconcerned and impregnable; just like a rock, which, being plied continually by the waves, ftill throws them back again, but is not at all moved. South. * IMPREGNABLY. adv. [from impregnable.] In fuch a manner as to defy force or hoftility.-A caule ftrongly feated on a high rock joineth by an ifthmus to the land, and is impregnably fortified. Sandys. *To IMPREGNATE. v. a. [in and pragno, Lat.] 1. To fill with young; to make prolific. -Hermaphrodites, although they include the parts of both fexes, cannot impregnate themfelves. Brown.-Chriftianity is of fo prolific a nature, fo apt to impregnate the hearts and lives of its profelytes, that it is hard to imagine that any branch fhould want a due fertility. Decay of Piety. 2. [Impregner, Fr.] To fill; to faturate. In the following examples, impregnate may be perhaps an adjective. Impregnate, from their loins they shed A flimy juice. Dryden. With native earth their blood the monster's mix'd; The blood, endu'd with animating heat, Did in the impregnate earth new fons beget. Dryden. (1.) * IMPREGNATION. n. f. [from impregnate.] 1. The act of making prolific; fecundation. They ought to refer matters unto counfellors, which is the firft begetting or impregnation; but when they are elaborate in the womb of their counfel, and grow ripe to be brought forth, then they take the matter back into their own hands. Bacon. 2. That with which any thing is impregnated. What could implant in the body fuch peculiar impregnations, as thould have fuch power? Derham's Phyfico-Theology. 3. [Impregnation, Fr.) Saturation. Ainsworth. iv. (2.) IMPREGNATION. See CONCEPTION, (3) IMPREGNATION, in pharmacy, is used for communicating the virtues of one medicine to another, whether by mixture, coction, digeftion, &c. IMPREJUDICATE. adj. [in, pra, and judico, Lat.] Unprejudiced; not prepoffefled; impartial, -The folid reafon of one man with imprejudicate apprehenfions, begets as firm a belief as the authority or aggregated teftimony of many hundreds. Brown. * IMPREPARATION. n. f. [in and preparation. Unpreparedness; want of preparation.Impreparation and unreadinefs when they find in us, they turn it to the foothing up of themfelves. Hooker. * IMPRESS. n.. [from the verb.] 1. Mark made by preffure. This weak imprefs of love is as a figure Trench'd in ice, which with an hour's heat Diffolves to water. Shak. -They have taken the impresses of the infides of thefe thells with that exquifite nicenefs, as to exprefs even the fineft lineaments of them. Woodward. 2. Effects of one fubflance on another. How objects are reprefented to myself I cannot be ignorant; but in what manner they are received, and what imprefes they make upon the different organs of another, he only knows that feels them. Glanville. 3. Mark of diftinction; ftamp.-God, furveying the words of the creation, leaves us this general imprefs or cha racter upon them, that they were exceeding good. South. 4. Device; motto. To defcribe th' emblazon'd fhields, Impreffes quaint, caparifons, and steeds, Bafes, and tinfels trappings. Milton. 5. Act of forcing into fervice; compulfion; feizure. Now commonly prefs.-Ajax was here the voluntary, and you as under an imprefs. Shakefpeare's Troilus and Creffida. Why fuch impress of fhip-wrights, whofe fore tafk Does not divide the Sunday from the week? Shak. Your fhips are not well mann'd; Your mariners are muliteers, reapers, people Ingroft by fwift impress. Shak. *To IMPRESS. v. a. [imprefium, Lat.] 1. To print by preffure; to ftamp. When God from earth form'd Adam in the He his own image on the clay impreft. Denham. Dryden: 2. To fix deep. We fhould dwell upon the arguments, and imprefs the motives of perfuafion upon our own hearts, 'till we feel the force of them. Watts. 3. To mark, as impreffed by a ftamp. near. So foul and ugly, that excceding fear Their vifages impre, when they approached Spenfer. 4. To force into fervice. This is generally now spoken and written prefs.—* His |