Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 11

Immoderate (a.) Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter.

Immoderately (adv.) In an immoderate manner; excessively.

Immoderateness (n.) The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance.

Immoderation (n.) Want of moderation.

Immodest (a.) Not limited to due bounds; immoderate.

Immodest (a.) Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc.

Immodestly (adv.) In an immodest manner.

Immodesty (n.) Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency.

Immolated (imp. & p. p.) of Immolate

Immolating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Immolate

Immolate (v. t.) To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim.

Immolation (n.) The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed.

Immolation (n.) That which is immolated; a sacrifice.

Immolator (n.) One who offers in sacrifice; specifically, one of a sect of Russian fanatics who practice self-mutilatio and sacrifice.

Immold (v. t.) Alt. of Immould

Immould (v. t.) To mold into shape, or form.

Immoment (a.) Trifling.

Immomentous (a.) Not momentous; unimportant; insignificant.

Immoral (a.) Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed.

Immoralities (pl. ) of Immorality

Immorality (n.) The state or quality of being immoral; vice.

Immorality (n.) An immoral act or practice.

Immorally (adv.) In an immoral manner; wickedly.

Immorigerous (a.) Rude; uncivil; disobedient.

Immortal (a.) Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance.

Immortal (a.) Connected with, or pertaining to immortability.

Immortal (a.) Destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding; exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame.

Immortal (a.) Great; excessive; grievous.

Immortal (n.) One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation.

Immortalist (n.) One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul.

Immortalities (pl. ) of Immortality

Immortality (n.) The quality or state of being immortal; exemption from death and annihilation; unending existance; as, the immortality of the soul.

Immortality (n.) Exemption from oblivion; perpetuity; as, the immortality of fame.

Immortalization (n.) The act of immortalizing, or state of being immortalized.

Immortalized (imp. & p. p.) of Immortalize

Immortalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Immortalize

Immortalize (v. t.) To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.

Immortalize (v. t.) To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame.

Immortalize (v. i.) To become immortal.

Immortally (adv.) In an immortal manner.

Immortelles (pl. ) of Immortelle

Immortelle (n.) A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting.

Immortification (n.) Failure to mortify the passions.

Immovability (n.) The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose.

Immovable (a.) Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of material things; as, an immovable foundatin.

Immovable (a.) Steadfast; fixed; unalterable; unchangeable; -- used of the mind or will; as, an immovable purpose, or a man who remain immovable.

Immovable (a.) Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive.

Immovable (a.) Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n.

Immovable (n.) That which can not be moved.

Immovable (n.) Lands and things adherent thereto by nature, as trees; by the hand of man, as buildings and their accessories; by their destination, as seeds, plants, manure, etc.; or by the objects to which they are applied, as servitudes.

Immovableness (n.) Quality of being immovable.

Immovably (adv.) In an immovable manner.

Immund (a.) Unclean.

Immundicity (n.) Uncleanness; filthness.

Immune (a.) Exempt; protected by inoculation.

Immunities (pl. ) of Immunity

Immunity (a.) Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.

Immunity (a.) Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.

Immured (imp. & p. p.) of Immure

Immuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Immure

Immure (v. t.) To wall around; to surround with walls.

Immure (v. t.) To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.

Immure (n.) A wall; an inclosure.

Immurement (n.) The act iif immuring, or the state of being immured; imprsonment.

Immusical (a.) Inharmonious; unmusical; discordant.

Immutability (n.) The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness.

Immutable (a.) Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change; unchangeable; unalterable.

Immutate (a.) Unchanged.

Immutation (n.) Change; alteration; mutation.

Immute (v. t.) To change or alter.

Imp (n.) A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.

Imp (n.) An offspring; progeny; child; scion.

Imp (n.) A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker.

Imp (n.) Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line.

Imped (imp. & p. p.) of Imp

Imping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imp

Imp (n.) To graft; to insert as a scion.

Imp (n.) To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Hence, Fig.: To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen to equip.

Impacable (a.) Not to be appeased or quieted.

Impackment (n.) The state of being closely surrounded, crowded, or pressed, as by ice.

Impacted (imp. & p. p.) of Impact

Impacting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impact

Impact (v. t.) To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

Impact (n.) Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated.

Impact (n.) The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.

Impacted (a.) Driven together or close.

Impaction (n.) The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.

Impaction (n.) An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast.

Impaint (v. t.) To paint; to adorn with colors.

Impaired (imp. & p. p.) of Impair

Impairing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impair

Impair (v. t.) To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.

Impair (v. t.) To grow worse; to deteriorate.

Impair (a.) Not fit or appropriate.

Impair (n.) Diminution; injury.

Impairer (n.) One who, or that which, impairs.

Impairment (n.) The state of being impaired; injury.

Impalatable (a.) Unpalatable.

Impaled (imp. & p. p.) of Impale

Impaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impale

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