Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
IMMODERATION — IMPATIBLE
IMMODERATION, n. Excess; want of moderation.
IMMODEST, a. [L. immodestus; in and modestus, modest. See the latter.]
1. Literally, not limited to due bounds. Hence, in a general sense, immoderate; exorbitant, unreasonable; arrogant.
2. Appropriately, wanting in the reserve or restraint which decency requires; wanting in decency and delicacy. It is immodest in decency and delicacy. It is immodest to treat superiors with the familiarity that is customary among equals.
3. Wanting in chastity; unchaste; lewd; as an immodest female.
4. Impure; indelicate; as an immodest thought.
5. Obscene; as an immodest word.
IMMODESTLY, adv. Without due reserve; indecently; unchastely; obscenely.
IMMODESTY, n. [L. immodestia.] Want of modesty; indecency; unchastity.
1. Want of delicacy or decent reserve.
IMMOLATE, v.t. [L. immolo, to sacrifice; in and mola, meal sprinkled with salt, which was thrown on the head of the victim.]
1. To sacrifice; to kill, as a victim offered in sacrifice.
2. To offer in sacrifice.
Now immolate the tongues and mix the wine.
IMMOLATED, pp. Sacrificed; offered in sacrifice.
From the same altar on which the small states shall be immolated, will rise the smoke of sacrificed liberty, and despotism must be the dreadful successor.
IMMOLATING, ppr. Sacrificing; offering, as a victim.
IMMOLATION, n. The act of sacrificing.
1. A sacrifice offered.
IMMOLATOR, n. One who offers in sacrifice.
IMMOMENT, a. Trifling.
IMMOMENTOUS, a. Unimportant.
IMMORAL, a. [in and moral.] Inconsistent with moral rectitude; contrary to the moral or divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious. Every action is immoral which contravenes any divine precept, or which is contrary to the duties which men owe to each other.
1. Wicked or unjust in practice; vicious; dishonest; as an immoral man. Every man who violates a divine law or a social duty, is immoral but we particularly apply the term to a person who habitually violates the laws.
IMMORALITY, n. Any act or practice which contravenes the divine commands or the social duties. Injustice, dishonesty, fraud, slander, profaneness, gaming, intemperance, lewdness, are immoralities. All crimes are immoralities; but crime expresses more than immorality.
IMMORALLY, adv. Wickedly; viciously; in violation of law or duty.
IMMORIGEROUS, a. [Low L. immoriger.] Rude; uncivil.
IMMORIGEROUSNESS, n. Rudeness; disobedience.
IMMORTAL, a. [L. immortalis. See Mortal.]
1. Having no principle of alteration or corruption; exempt from death; having life or being that shall never end; as an immortal soul.
To the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever. 1 Timothy 1:17.
2. Never ending; everlasting; continual.
I have
Immortal longings in me.
3. Perpetual; having unlimited existence.
A corporation is called an immortal being.
4. Destined to live in all the ages of this world; imperishable; as immortal fame.
So Homer is called the immortal bard.
IMMORTALITY, n. The quality of never ceasing to live or exist; exemption from death and annihilation; life destined to endure without end; as the immortality of the human soul.
--Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 2 Timothy 1:10.
1. Exemption from oblivion.
2. Perpetuity; existence not limited; as the immortality of a corporation.
IMMORTALIZATION, n. The act of immortalizing.
IMMORTALIZE, v.t.
1. To render immortal; to make perpetual; to cause to live or exist while the world shall endure. The Iliad has immortalized the name of Homer.
Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his guilty name.
2. To exempt from oblivion; to make perpetual.
IMMORTALIZE, v.i. To become immortal. [Not in use.]
IMMORTALIZED, pp. Rendered immortal or perpetual.
IMMORTALIZING, ppr. Making immortal or perpetual.
IMMORTALLY, adv. With endless existence; with exemption from death.
IMMORTIFICATION, n. [in and mortification.] Want of subjection of the passions.
IMMOVABILITY, n. Steadfastness that cannot be moved or shaken.
IMMOVABLE, a. [in and movable.] That cannot be moved from its place; as an immovable foundation.
1. Not to be moved from a purpose; steadfast; fixed; that cannot be induced to change or alter; as a man who remains immovable.
2. That cannot be altered or shaken; unalterable; unchangeable; as an immovable purpose or resolution.
3. That cannot be affected or moved; not impressible; not susceptible of compassion or tender feelings; unfeeling.
4. Fixed; not liable to be removed; permanent in place; as immovable estate.
5. Not to be shaken or agitated.
IMMOVABLENESS, n. The quality of being immovable.
IMMOVABLY, adv. In a manner not to be moved from its place or purpose; or in a manner not to be shaken; unalterably; unchangeably. Immovably firm to their duty; immovably fixed or established.
IMMUND, a. [L. immundus.] Unclean.
IMMUNDICITY, n. Uncleanness.
IMMUNITY, n. [L. immuinitas, from immunis, free, exempt; in and munus, charge, office, duty.]
1. Freedom or exemption from obligation. To be exempted from observing the rites or duties of the church, is an immunity.
2. Exemption from any charge, duty, office, tax or imposition; a particular privilege; as the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.
3. Freedom; as an immunity from error.
IMMURE, v.t. [L. in and murus, a wall.]
1. To inclose within walls; to shut up; to confine; as, to immure nuns in cloisters.
The student immures himself voluntarily.
2. To wall; to surround with walls.
Lysimachus immured it with a wall. [Not usual.]
3. To imprison.
IMMURE, n. A wall. [Not used.]
IMMURED, pp. Confined within walls.
IMMUSICAL, a. [in and musical.] Not musical; inharmonious; not accordant; harsh.
IMMUTABILITY, n. [L. immutabilitas; in and mutabilis, mutable, from muto, to change.]
Unchangeableness; the quality that renders change or alteration impossible; invariableness. Immutability is an attribute of God.
IMMUTABLE, a. [L. immutabilis; in and mutabilis.] invariable; unalterable; not capable or susceptible of change.
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation. Hebrews 6:18.
IMMUTABLENESS, n. Unchangeableness; immutability.
IMMUTABLY, adv. Unchangeably; unalterably; invariably; in a manner that admits of no change.
IMMUTATE, a. [L. immutatus.] Unchanged.
IMMUTATION, n. [L. immutatio.] Change; alteration.
IMP, n.
1. A son; offspring; progeny.
The tender imp was weaned.
A lad of life, an imp of fame.
2. A subaltern or puny devil.
IMP, v.t.
1. To graft.
2. To lengthen; to extend or enlarge by something inserted or added; a term originally used by falconers, who repair a hawk’s wing by adding feathers.
Imp out our drooping country’s broken wings.
--The false north displays
Her broken league to imp her serpent wings.
This verb is, I believe, used only in poetry.
IMPACABLE, a. [L. in and paco, to appease.]
Not to be appeased or quieted.
IMPACT, v.t. [L. impactus, from impingo; in and pango, to drive.]
To drive close; to press or drive firmly together.
IMPACT, n. Touch; impression.
IMPACTED, pp. Driven hard; made close by driving.
IMPAINT, v.t. To paint; to adorn with colors.
IMPAIR, v.t. [L. pejor.]
1. To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value or excellence. An estate is impaired by extravagance or neglect. The profligate impairs his estate and his reputation.
Imprudence impairs a man’s usefulness.
2. To weaken; to enfeeble. The constitution is impaired by intemperance, by infirmity and by age. The force of evidence may be impaired by the suspicion of interest in the witness.
IMPAIR, v.i. To be lessened or worn out. [Little used.]
IMPAIR, a. [L. impar, unequal.] In crystallography, when a different number of faces is presented by the prism, and by each summit; but the three numbers follow no law of progression.
IMPAIRMENT, IMPAIR, n. Diminution; decrease; injury. [Not used.]
IMPAIRED, pp. Diminished; injured; weakened.
IMPAIRER, n. He or that which impairs.
IMPAIRING, ppr. Making worse; lessening; injuring; enfeebling.
IMPALATABLE, a. Unpalatable. [Little used.]
IMPALE, v.t. [L. in and palus, a pole, a stake.]
1. To fix on a stake; to put to death by fixing on an upright sharp stake. [See Empale.]
2. To inclose with stakes, posts or palisades.
3. In heraldry, to join two coats of arms pale-wise.
IMPALLID, v.t. To make pallid or pale. [Not in use.]
IMPALM, v.t. imp`am. [L. in and palma, the hand.]
To grasp; to take in the hand.
IMPALPABILITY, n. The quality of not being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.
IMPALPABLE, a. [L. in and palpo, to feel. See Palpable.]
Not to be felt; that cannot be perceived by the touch; as an impalpable powder, whose parts are so minute that they cannot be distinguished by the senses, particularly by feeling.
1. Not coarse or gross.
IMPALSY, v.t. s as z. [in and palsy.] To strike with palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.
IMPANATE, a. [L. in and panis, bread.] Embodied in bread.
IMPANATE, v.t. To embody with bread.
IMPANATION, n. The supposed substantial presence of the body and blood of Christ, with the substance of the bread and wine, after consecration, in the eucharist; a tenet of the Lutheran church; otherwise called consubstantiation.
IMPANNEL, v.t. [in and pannel.] To write or enter the names of a jury in a list or on a piece of parchment, called a pannel; to form, complete or enroll a list of jurors in a court of justice.
IMPANNELED, pp. Having the names entered in a pannel; formed, as a jury.
IMPANNELING, ppr. Writing the names of a pannel; forming, as a jury.
IMPARADISE, v.t. To put in a place of felicity; to make happy.
IMPARADISED, pp. Placed in a condition resembling that of paradise; made happy.
IMPARADISING, ppr. Making very happy.
IMPARALLELED, a. Unparalleled. [Not used.]
IMPARASYLLABIC, a. [L. in, par, and syllaba.]
Not consisting of an equal number of syllables. An imparasyllabic noun is one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.
IMPARDONABLE, a. Unpardonable.
IMPARITY, n. [in and parity; L. par, equal.]
1. Inequality; disproportion.
2. Oddness; indivisibility into equal parts.
3. Difference of degree, rank or excellence.
IMPARK, v.t. [in and park.] To inclose for a park; to make a park by inclosure; to sever from a common.
IMPARL, v.i. To hold mutual discourse; appropriately, in law, to have license to settle a lawsuit amicably; to have delay for mutual adjustment.
IMPARLANCE, n. Properly, leave for mutual discourse; appropriately, in law, the license or privilege of a defendant, granted on motion, to have delay of trial, to see if he can settle the matter amicably by talking with the plaintiff, and thus to determine what answer he shall make to the plaintiff’s action. Hence,
1. The continuance of a cause till another day, or from day to day.
IMPARSONEE, a. A parson imparsonee, is a parson presented, instituted and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession.
IMPART, v.t. [L. impertior; in and partio, to divide; from pars, a part.]
1. To give, grant or communicate; to bestow on another a share or portion of something; as, to impart a portion of provisions to the poor.
2. To grant; to give; to confer; as, to impart honor or favor.
3. To communicate the knowledge of something; to make known; to show by words or tokens.
Gentle lady,
When first I did impart my love to you--
IMPARTANCE, n. Communication of a share; grant.
IMPARTATION, n. The act of imparting or conferring. [Not much used.]
IMPARTED, pp. Communicated; granted; conferred.
IMPARTIAL, a. [in and partial, from part, L. pars.]
1. Not partial; not biased in favor of one party more than another; indifferent; unprejudiced; disinterested; as an impartial judge or arbitrator.
2. Not favoring one party more than another; equitable; just; as an impartial judgment or decision; an impartial opinion.
IMPARTIALIST, n. One who is impartial. [Little used.]
IMPARTIALITY, n. imparshal’ity. Indifference of opinion or judgment; freedom from bias in favor of one side or party more than another; disinterestedness.
Impartiality is indispensable to an upright judge.
1. Equitableness; justice; as the impartiality of a decision.
IMPARTIALLY, adv. Without bias of judgment; without prejudice; without inclination to favor one party or side more than another; equitably; justly.
IMPARTIBILITY, n. The quality of not being subject to partition.
1. The quality of being capable of being communicated.
IMPARTIBLE, a.
1. Not partible or subject to partition; as an impartible estate.
2. [from impart.] That may be imparted, conferred, bestowed or communicated.
IMPARTING, ppr. Communicating; granting; bestowing.
IMPARTMENT, n. The act of imparting; the communication of knowledge; disclosure.
IMPASSABLE, a. [in and passable. See Pass.]
That cannot be passed; not admitting a passage; as an impassable road, mountain or gulf.
IMPASSABLENESS, n. The state of being impassable.
IMPASSABLY, adv. In a manner or degree that prevents passing, or the power of passing.
IMPASSIBILITY, IMPASSIBLENESS, n. [from impassible.]
Exemption from pain or suffering; insusceptibility of injury from external things.
IMPASSIBLE, a. [L. impassibilis, from passus, patior, to suffer.]
Incapable of pain, passion or suffering; that cannot be affected with pain or uneasiness. Whatever is destitute of sensation is impassible.
Though naked and impassible, depart.
IMPASSION, v.t. [in and passion.] To move or affect strongly with passion.
IMPASSIONATE, v.t. To affect powerfully.
IMPASSIONATE, a. Strongly affected.
1. Without passion or feeling.
IMPASSIONED, a. Actuated or agitated by passion.
The tempter all impassioned, thus began.
1. Animated; excited; having the feelings warmed; as an impassioned orator.
2. Animated; expressive of passion or ardor; as an impassioned discourse.
IMPASSIVE, a. [L. in and passus, patior, to suffer.]
Not susceptible of pain or suffering; as the impassive air; impassive ice.
IMPASSIVELY, adv. Without sensibility to pain or suffering.
IMPASSIVENESS, n. The state of being insusceptible of pain.
IMPASSIVITY, n. The quality of being insusceptible of feeling, pain or suffering.
IMPASTATION, n. [in and paste.] The mixtion of various materials of different colors and consistences, baked or united by a cement, and hardened by the air or by fire.
IMPASTE, v.t.
1. To knead; to make into paste.
2. In painting, to lay on colors thick and bold.
IMPASTED, a. Concreted, as into paste.
1. Pasted over; covered with paste, or with thick paint.