Want of prudence; indiscretion; want of caution, circumspection, or a due regard to the consequences of words to be uttered or actions to be performed, or their probable effects on the interest, safety, reputation or happiness of one’s self or others; heedlessness; inconsiderateness; rashness. Let a man of sixty attempt to enumerate the evils which his imprudence has brought on himself, his family, or his neighbors. NWAD IMPRUDENCE.2
Wanting prudence or discretion; indiscrete; injudicious; not attentive to the consequences of words or actions; rash; heedless. The imprudent man often laments his mistakes, and then repeats them. NWAD IMPRUDENT.2
Those clear truths, that either their own evidence forces us to admit, or common experience makes it impudence to deny. NWAD IMPUDENCE.2
When we behold an angel, not to fear NWAD IMPUDENT.2
Is to be impudent. NWAD IMPUDENT.3
At once assail NWAD IMPUDENTLY.2
With open mouths, and impudently rail. NWAD IMPUDENTLY.3
The truth hereof I will not rashly impugn, or over-boldly affirm. NWAD IMPUGN.2
1. Force communicated; the effect of one body acting on another. Impulse is the effect of motion, and is in proportion to the quantity of matter and velocity of the impelling body. NWAD IMPULSE.2
2. Influence acting on the mind; motive. NWAD IMPULSE.3
These were my natural impulses for the undertaking. NWAD IMPULSE.4
3. Impression; supposed supernatural influence on the mind. NWAD IMPULSE.5
Meantime, by Jove’s impulse, Mezentius armed, NWAD IMPULSE.6
Succeeded Turnus-- NWAD IMPULSE.7
1. The act of driving against or impelling; the agency of a body in motion on another body. NWAD IMPULSION.2
2. Influence on the mind; impulse. NWAD IMPULSION.3
Poor men! poor papers! We and they NWAD IMPULSIVE.2
Do some impulsive force obey. NWAD IMPULSIVE.3
1. Exemption from punishment or penalty. No person should be permitted to violate the laws with impunity. Impunity encourages men in crimes. NWAD IMPUNITY.2
2. Freedom or exemption from injury. Some ferocious animals are not be encountered with impunity. NWAD IMPUNITY.3
1. Not pure; foul; feculent; tinctured; mixed or impregnated with extraneous substance; as impure water or air; impure salt or magnesia. NWAD IMPURE.2
2. Obscene; as impure language or ideas. NWAD IMPURE.3
3. Unchaste; lewd; unclean; as impure actions. NWAD IMPURE.4
4. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; as persons. NWAD IMPURE.5
5. Unhallowed; unholy; as things. NWAD IMPURE.6
6. Unclean; in a legal sense; not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses. NWAD IMPURE.7
1. Want of purity; foulness; feculence; the admixture of a foreign substance in any thing; as the impurity of water, of air, of spirits, or of any species of earth or metal. NWAD IMPURENESS.2
2. Any foul matter. NWAD IMPURENESS.3
3. Unchastity; lewdness. NWAD IMPURENESS.4
The foul impurities that reigned among the monkish clergy. NWAD IMPURENESS.5
4. Want of sanctity or holiness; defilement by guilt. NWAD IMPURENESS.6
5. Want of ceremonial purity; legal pollution or uncleanness. By the Mosaic law, a person contracted impurity by touching a dead body or a leper. NWAD IMPURENESS.7
6. Foul language; obscenity. NWAD IMPURENESS.8
Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit. NWAD IMPURENESS.9
The bright NWAD IMPURPLE.2
Pavement, that like a sea of jasper shone, NWAD IMPURPLE.3
Impurpled; with celestial roses, smil’d. NWAD IMPURPLE.4
1. That may be ascribed to; in a good sense. NWAD IMPUTABLE.2
This favor is imputable to your goodness, or to a good motive. NWAD IMPUTABLE.3
2. Accusable; chargeable with a fault. [Not proper.] NWAD IMPUTABLE.4
3. That may be set to the account of another. It has been a question much agitated, whether Adam’s sin is imputable to his posterity. NWAD IMPUTABLE.5
1. Sometimes in a good sense. NWAD IMPUTATION.2
If I had a suit to Master Shallow, I would humor his men with the imputation of being near their master. NWAD IMPUTATION.3
2. Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach. NWAD IMPUTATION.4
Let us be careful to guard ourselves against these groundless imputations of our enemies, and to rise above them. NWAD IMPUTATION.5
3. Hint; slight notice. NWAD IMPUTATION.6
1. To charge; to attribute; to set to the account of; generally ill, sometimes good. We impute crimes, sins, trespasses, faults, blame, etc., to the guilty persons. We impute wrong actions to bad motives, or to ignorance, or to folly and rashness. We impute misfortunes and miscarriages to imprudence. NWAD IMPUTE.2
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Romans 4:22. NWAD IMPUTE.3
2. To attribute; to ascribe. NWAD IMPUTE.4
I have read a book imputed to lord Bathurst. NWAD IMPUTE.5
3. To reckon to one what does not belong to him. NWAD IMPUTE.6
It has been held that Adam’s sin is imputed to all his posterity. NWAD IMPUTE.7
Thy merit NWAD IMPUTE.8
Imputed shall absolve them who renounce NWAD IMPUTE.9
Their own both righteous and unrighteous deeds. NWAD IMPUTE.10
Not subject to putrefaction or corruption. NWAD IMPUTRESCIBLE.2
In, before l, is changed into il, as in illusion; and before r, into ir, as in irregular; and into im, before a labial, as in imbitter, immaterial, impatient. NWAD IN.2
In the name, is used in phrases of invoking, swearing, declaring, praying, etc. In prayer, it denotes by virtue of, or for the sake of. In the name of the people, denotes on their behalf or part; in their stead, or for their sake. NWAD IN.4
In, in many cases, is equivalent to on. This use of the word is frequent in the Scriptures; as, let fowls multiply in the earth. This use is more frequent in England than in America. We generally use on, in all similar phrases. NWAD IN.5
In signifies by or through. In thee shall all nations be blessed. I am glorified in them. NWAD IN.6
In that, is sometimes equivalent to because. NWAD IN.7
Some things they do in that they are men; some things in that they are men misled and blinded with error. NWAD IN.8
In these and similar phrases, that is an antecedent, substitute, or pronoun relating to the subsequent part of the sentence, or the subsequent clause. God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. That is, in the fact stated in the latter clause, for which that is the substitute. Romans 5:8. NWAD IN.9
In as much, seeing; seeing that; this being the fact. I will ride for health, inasmuch as I am infirm. NWAD IN.10
In is often used without the noun to which it properly belongs. I care not who is in, or who is out, that is, in office, or out of office. Come in, that is, into the house or other place. Who has or will come in, that is, into office. A vessel has come in, that is, into port, or has arrived. NWAD IN.11
To be or keep in with, to be close or near. NWAD IN.12
Keep the ship in with the land. NWAD IN.13
1. Want of sufficient physical power or strength; as the inability of a man to raise an arm or a leg. NWAD INABILITY.2
2. Want of adequate means; as an inability to purchase a farm, or to fit out a ship. NWAD INABILITY.3
3. Want of moral power. Moral inability is considered to be want of inclination, disposition or will, or a deep-rooted aversion to act, and therefore improperly so called. NWAD INABILITY.4
Moral inability aggravates our guilt. NWAD INABILITY.5
4. Want of intellectual strength or force; as an inability to comprehend a mathematical demonstration. NWAD INABILITY.6
5. Want of knowledge or skill; as an inability to read or write. NWAD INABILITY.7
The quality or state of being inaccessible, or not to be reached. NWAD INACCESSIBILITY.2
1. Not to be reached; as an inaccessible highth or rock. The depths of the sea are inaccessible. NWAD INACCESSIBLE.2
2. Not to be obtained. The necessary vouchers are inaccessible. NWAD INACCESSIBLE.3
3. Not to be approached; forbidding access; as an inaccessible prince. NWAD INACCESSIBLE.4
1. Not active; not diligent or industrious; not busy; idle. Also, habitually idle; indolent; sluggish; as an inactive officer. NWAD INACTIVE.2
1. Idleness, or habitual idleness; want of action or exertion; sluggishness. NWAD INACTIVITY.2
The inadequacy and consequent inefficacy of the alleged causes-- NWAD INADEQUACY.2
1. Inequality. NWAD INADEQUACY.3
Dr. Price considers this inadequacy of representation as our fundamental grievance. NWAD INADEQUACY.4
2. Incompleteness; defectiveness; as the inadequacy of ideas. NWAD INADEQUACY.5
1. Not equal to the purpose; insufficient to effect the object; unequal; as inadequate power, strength, resources. NWAD INADEQUATE.2
2. Not equal to the real state or condition of a thing; not just or in due proportion; partial; incomplete; as inadequate ideas of God, of his perfections, or moral government; an inadequate compensation for services. NWAD INADEQUATE.3
3. Incomplete; defective; not just; as inadequate representation or description. NWAD INADEQUATE.4
Porcelain clay is distinguished from colorific earths by inadhesion to the fingers. NWAD INADHESION.2
1. A not turning the mind to; inattention; negligence; heedlessness. Many mistakes and some misfortunes proceed from inadvertence. NWAD INADVERTENCE.2
2. The effect of inattention; any oversight, mistake or fault which proceeds from negligence of thought. NWAD INADVERTENCE.3
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author. NWAD INADVERTENCE.4
Unalienable; that cannot be legally or justly alienated or transferred to another. The dominions of a king are inalienable. All men have certain natural rights which are inalienable. The estate of a minor is inalienable, without a reservation of the right of redemption, or the authority of the legislature. NWAD INALIENABLE.2
[Little used.] NWAD INAMISSIBLE.2
1. Destitute of animal life. Plants, stones and earth are inanimate substances; a corpse is an inanimate body. NWAD INANIMATE.3
2. Destitute of animation or life. NWAD INANIMATE.4
1. Not animated; not sprightly. [See Unanimated.] NWAD INANIMATED.2
Emptiness; want of fullness; as inanition of body or of the vessels. NWAD INANITION.2
Emptiness; void space; vacuity. NWAD INANITY.2
Want of appetence, or of a disposition to seek, select or imbibe nutriment. [See Appetence.] NWAD INAPPETENCE.2
1. Want of desire or inclination. NWAD INAPPETENCE.3
The quality of not being applicable; unfitness. NWAD INAPPLICABILITY.2
1. Not to be appreciated; that cannot be duly valued. NWAD INAPPRECIABLE.2
2. That cannot be estimated. NWAD INAPPRECIABLE.3
Not to be approached; inaccessible. NWAD INAPPROACHABLE.2
Not appropriate; unsuited; not proper. NWAD INAPPROPRIATE.2
1. Not appropriate; not belonging to. NWAD INAPPROPRIATE.3
Not arable; not capable of being plowed or tilled. NWAD INARABLE.2