1. The force with which one body in motion strikes another. NWAD IMPETUS.2
Not to be pierced or penetrated. NWAD IMPIERCEABLE.2
1. Ungodliness; irreverence towards the Supreme being; contempt of the divine character and authority; neglect of the divine precepts. These constitute different degrees of impiety. NWAD IMPIETY.2
2. Any act of wickedness, as blasphemy and scoffing at the Supreme Being, or at his authority; profaneness. Any expression of contempt for God or his laws, constitutes an impiety of the highest degree of criminality. Disobedience to the divine commands or neglect of duty implies contempt for his authority, and is therefore impiety. Impiety, when it expresses the temper or disposition, has no plural; but it is otherwise when it expresses an act of wickedness, for all such acts are impieties. NWAD IMPIETY.3
The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies. NWAD IMPINGE.2
To fatten; to make fat. [Not in use.] NWAD IMPINGUATE.2
1. Irreverent towards the Supreme Being; wanting in veneration for God and his authority; irreligious; profane. The scoffer at God and his authority is impious. The profane swear is impious. NWAD IMPIOUS.2
When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, NWAD IMPIOUS.3
The post of honor is a private station. NWAD IMPIOUS.4
2. Irreverent towards God; proceeding from or manifesting a contempt for the Supreme Being; tending to dishonor God or his laws, and bring them into contempt; as an impious deed; impious language; impious writings. NWAD IMPIOUS.5
1. Not to be appeased; that can not be pacified and rendered peaceable; inexorable; stubborn or constant in enmity; as an implacable prince. NWAD IMPLACABLE.2
2. Not to be appeased or subdued; as implacable anger; implacable enmity, malice or revenge. NWAD IMPLACABLE.3
To set, plant or infix for the purpose of growth; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge in the minds of youth; to implant grace in the heart. [It is now seldom or never used in its literal sense for setting plants or seeds in the earth.] NWAD IMPLANT.2
The quality of not being plausible or specious. NWAD IMPLAUSIBILITY.2
Not specious; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed; as an implausible harangue. NWAD IMPLAUSIBLE.2
Let them implead one another. Acts 19:38. NWAD IMPLEAD.2
The act of filling; the state of being full. NWAD IMPLETION.2
The impletion is either in simple or compound flowers. The impletion of simple flowers, is by the increase either of the petals, or of the nectary. NWAD IMPLETION.3
Infolded; intricate; entangled; complicated. NWAD IMPLEX.2
Every poem is simple or implex; it is called simple, 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. NWAD IMPLEX.3
1. To infold; to involve; to entangle. [Seldom used in its literal sense.] NWAD IMPLICATE.2
2. To involve; to bring into connection with; also, to show or prove to be connected or concerned; as, the evidence does not implicate the accused person in this conspiracy. NWAD IMPLICATE.3
1. Involved; connected; concerned; proved to be concerned or to have had a part. NWAD IMPLICATED.2
Twenty persons are implicated in the plot. NWAD IMPLICATED.3
1. The act of infolding or involving. NWAD IMPLICATION.2
2. Involution; entanglement. NWAD IMPLICATION.3
Three principal causes of firmness are, the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of the component parts. NWAD IMPLICATION.4
3. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; a tacit inference, or something fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words. NWAD IMPLICATION.5
The doctors are, by implication of a different opinion. NWAD IMPLICATION.6
1. Infolded; entangled; complicated. NWAD IMPLICIT.2
In his woolly fleece NWAD IMPLICIT.3
I cling implicit. [Little used.] NWAD IMPLICIT.4
2. Implied; tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; as an implicit contract or agreement. NWAD IMPLICIT.5
3. Resting on another; trusting to the word or authority of another, without doubting or reserve, or without examining into the truth of the thing itself. Thus we give implicit credit or confidence to the declarations of a person of known veracity. We receive with implicit faith whatever God has clearly revealed. NWAD IMPLICIT.6
He that denies the providence of God, implicitly denies his existence. NWAD IMPLICITLY.2
1. By connection with something else; dependently; with unreserved confidence; without doubting, or without examining evidence. We are disposed to believe implicitly what a man of veracity testifies. NWAD IMPLICITLY.3
Learn not to dispute the methods of his providence, but humbly and implicitly to acquiesce in and adore them. NWAD IMPLICITLY.4
1. To call upon or for, in supplication; to beseech; to pray earnestly; to petition with urgency; to entreat; as, to implore the forgiveness of sins; to implore mercy. NWAD IMPLORE.2
Imploring all the gods that reign above. NWAD IMPLORE.3
2. To ask earnestly; to beg. NWAD IMPLORE.4
1. Literally, to infold or involve; to wrap up. NWAD IMPLY.2
2. To involve or contain in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not expressed in words. NWAD IMPLY.3
Where a malicious act is proved, a malicious intention is implied. NWAD IMPLY.4
When a man employs a laborer to work for him, or an agent to transact business for him, the act of hiring implies an obligation, and a promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward for his services. Contracts are express or implied; express contracts are those in which an agreement or promise is expressed by words or in writing; implied contracts are such as arise from the presumption of law, or the justice and reason of the transaction. NWAD IMPLY.5
1. To poison; to impregnate with poison; to corrupt with poison. NWAD IMPOISON.2
2. To embitter; to impair; as, grief impoisons the pleasures of life. NWAD IMPOISON.3
3. To kill with poison. NWAD IMPOISON.4
1. Unwise; adapted to injure the public interest; as an impolitic law, measure or scheme. NWAD INPOLITIC.2
2. Not wise in private concerns; pursuing measures ill suited to promote private welfare; not prudent. NWAD INPOLITIC.3
3. Not suited to promote private interest. NWAD INPOLITIC.4
Not having sensible weight. NWAD IMPONDERABLE.2
1. To bring from a foreign country or jurisdiction, or from another state, into one’s own country, jurisdiction or state; opposed to export. We import teas and silks from China, wines from Spain and France, and dry goods from Great Britain. Great Britain imports cotton from American and India. We may say also that Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine import flour from the middle states. NWAD IMPORT.2
2. To bear or convey, as signification or meaning; to mean; to signify; to imply. We are to understand by a term, what it clearly imports. NWAD IMPORT.3
3. To be of weight to; to be of moment or consequence to; to bear on the interest of, or to have a bearing on. NWAD IMPORT.4
Her length of sickness, with what else more serious NWAD IMPORT.5
Importeth thee to know, this bears. NWAD IMPORT.6
If I endure it, what imports it you? NWAD IMPORT.7
1. That which is imported or brought into a country from another country or state; generally in the plural. Our imports exceed our exports; the balance must be paid in specie; hence the scarcity of coin. NWAD IMPORT.9
2. Importance; weight; consequence. [Formerly accented on the second syllable.] NWAD IMPORT.10
1. Insupportable; not to be endured. NWAD IMPORTABLE.2
1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being. NWAD IMPORTANCE.2
2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being. NWAD IMPORTANCE.3
Thy own importance know. NWAD IMPORTANCE.4
Nor bound thy narrow views to things below. NWAD IMPORTANCE.5
3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation. NWAD IMPORTANCE.6
He believes himself a man of importance. NWAD IMPORTANCE.7
4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.] NWAD IMPORTANCE.8
1. Bearing on; forcible; driving. NWAD IMPORTANT.2
He fiercely at him flew, NWAD IMPORTANT.3
And with important outrage him assailed. NWAD IMPORTANT.4
2. Importunate. [Not used.] NWAD IMPORTANT.5
1. The act or practice of importing, or of bringing from another country or state; opposed to exportation. Nations forbid the importation of commodities which are produced or manufactured in sufficient abundance at home. NWAD IMPORTATION.2
2. The ware or commodities imported. NWAD IMPORTATION.3
The importations, this season, exceed those of the last. NWAD IMPORTATION.4
3. Conveyance. NWAD IMPORTATION.5
1. Bearing, as a signification; meaning. NWAD IMPORTING.2
2. Having weight or consequence. NWAD IMPORTING.3
1. Bearing on; pressing or urging in request or demand; urgent and pertinacious in solicitation; as an importunate suitor or petitioner. NWAD IMPORTUNATE.2
2. Pressing; urgent; as an importunate demand. NWAD IMPORTUNATE.3
3. Inciting urgently for gratification; as importunate passions and appetites. NWAD IMPORTUNATE.4
To request with urgency; to press with solicitation; to urge with frequent or unceasing application. NWAD IMPORTUNE.2
Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands. NWAD IMPORTUNE.3
1. Pressing in request; urgent; troublesome by frequent demands; vexatious; unreasonable. NWAD IMPORTUNE.5
2. Unseasonable. NWAD IMPORTUNE.6
[This word is obsolete; being superseded by importunate, unless perhaps in poetry.] NWAD IMPORTUNE.7
1. Unseasonably; improperly. NWAD IMPORTUNELY.2
Pressing solicitation; urgent request; application for a claim or favor, which is urged with troublesome frequency or pertinacity. Men are sometimes overcome by the importunity of their wives or children. NWAD IMPORTUNITY.2
Without a port, haven or harbor. NWAD IMPORTUOUS.2
1. To lay on; to set on; to lay on, as a burden, tax, toll, duty or penalty. The legislature imposes taxes for the support of government; toll is imposed on passengers to maintain roads, and penalties are imposed on those who violate the laws. God imposes no burdens on men which they are unable to bear. NWAD IMPOSE.2
On impious realms and barb’rous kings impose NWAD IMPOSE.3
Thy plagues-- NWAD IMPOSE.4
2. To place over by authority or by force. NWAD IMPOSE.5
The Romans often imposed rapacious governors on their colonies and conquered countries. NWAD IMPOSE.6
3. To lay on, as a command; to enjoin, as a duty. NWAD IMPOSE.7
Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws. NWAD IMPOSE.8
Impose but your commands-- NWAD IMPOSE.9
4. To fix on; to impute. [Little used.] NWAD IMPOSE.10
5. To lay on, as hands in the ceremony of ordination, or of confirmation. NWAD IMPOSE.11
6. To obtrude fallaciously. NWAD IMPOSE.12
Our poet thinks not fit NWAD IMPOSE.13
T’ impose upon you what he writes for wit. NWAD IMPOSE.14
7. Among printers, to put the pages on the stone and fit on the chase, and thus prepare the form for the press. NWAD IMPOSE.15
To impose on, to deceive; to mislead by a trick or false pretense; vulgarly, to put upon. We are liable to be imposed on by others, and sometimes we impose on ourselves. NWAD IMPOSE.16
Imposes on, deceived. NWAD IMPOSED.2
--The imposers of these oaths might repent. NWAD IMPOSER.2
1. Commanding; adapted to impress forcibly; as an imposing air or matter. NWAD IMPOSING.2
--Large and imposing edifices, embosomed in the groves of some rich valley. NWAD IMPOSING.3
1. In a general sense, the act of laying on. NWAD IMPOSITION.2
2. The act of laying on hands in the ceremony of ordination, when the bishop in the episcopal church, and the ministers in congregational churches, place their hands on the head of the person whom they are ordaining, while one prays for a blessing on his labors. The same ceremony is used in other cases. NWAD IMPOSITION.3
3. The act of setting on or affixing to; as the imposition of names. NWAD IMPOSITION.4
4. That which is imposed; a tax, toll, duty or excise laid by authority. Tyrants oppress their subjects with grievous impositions. NWAD IMPOSITION.5
5. Injunction, as of a law or duty. NWAD IMPOSITION.6
6. Constraint; oppression; burden. NWAD IMPOSITION.7
Let it not be made, contrary to its own nature, the occasion of strife, a narrow spirit, and unreasonable impositions on the mind and practice. NWAD IMPOSITION.8
7. Deception; imposture. NWAD IMPOSITION.9
Being acquainted with his hand, I had no reason to suspect an imposition. NWAD IMPOSITION.10
8. A supernumerary exercise enjoined on students as a punishment. NWAD IMPOSITION.11
1. That which cannot be; the state of being not possible to exist. That a thing should be and not be at the same time, is an impossibility. NWAD IMPOSSIBILITY.2
2. Impracticability; the state or quality of being not feasible or possible to be done. That a man by his own strength should lift a ship of the line, is to him an impossibility, as the means are inadequate to the end. [See Impossible.] NWAD IMPOSSIBILITY.3
1. That cannot be. It is impossible that two and two should make five, or that a circle and a square make five, or that a circle and a square should be the same thing, or that a thing should be, and not be at the same time. NWAD IMPOSSIBLE.2
2. Impracticable; not feasible; that cannot be done. NWAD IMPOSSIBLE.3
With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Matthew 19:26. NWAD IMPOSSIBLE.4
Without faith it is impossible to please God. Hebrews 11:6. NWAD IMPOSSIBLE.5
There are two kinds of impossibilities; physical and moral. That is a physical impossibility, which is contrary to the law of nature. A thing is said to be morally impossible, when in itself it is possible, but attended with difficulties or circumstances which give it the appearance of being impossible. [See Possible, Practicable and Impracticable.] NWAD IMPOSSIBLE.6
1. Any tax or tribute imposed by authority; particularly, a duty or tax laid by government on goods imported, and paid or secured by the importer at the time of importation. Imposts are also called customs. NWAD IMPOST.2
2. In architecture, that part of a pillar in vaults and arches, on which the weight of the building rests; or the capital of a pillar, or cornice which crowns the pier and supports the first stone or part of an arch. NWAD IMPOST.3