Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 15

Impetrate (v. t.) To obtain by request or entreaty.

Impetration (n.) The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty.

Impetration (n.) The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron of the realm.

Impetrative (a.) Of the nature of impetration; getting, or tending to get, by entreaty.

Impetratory (a.) Containing or expressing entreaty.

Impetuosity (n.) The condition or quality of being impetuous; fury; violence.

Impetuosity (n.) Vehemence, or furiousnes of temper.

Impetuous (a.) Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent.

Impetuous (a.) Vehement in feeling; hasty; passionate; violent; as, a man of impetuous temper.

Impetus (n.) A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.

Impetus (n.) Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force.

Impetus (n.) The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece.

Impeyan pheasant () An Indian crested pheasant of the genus Lophophorus. Several species are known. Called also monaul, monal.

Imphee (n.) The African sugar cane (Holcus saccharatus), -- resembling the sorghum, or Chinese sugar cane.

Impictured (a.) Pictured; impressed.

Impierce (v. t.) To pierce; to penetrate.

Impierceable (a.) Not capable of being pierced; impenetrable.

Impieties (pl. ) of Impiety

Impiety (n.) The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.

Impiety (n.) An impious act; an act of wickednes.

Impignorate (v. t.) To pledge or pawn.

Impignoration (n.) The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned.

Imping (n.) The act or process of grafting or mending.

Imping (n.) The process of repairing broken feathers or a deficient wing.

Impinged (imp. & p. p.) of Impinge

Impinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impinge

Impinge (v. t.) To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon.

Impingement (n.) The act of impinging.

Impingent (a.) Striking against or upon.

Impinguate (v. t.) To fatten; to make fat.

Impinguation (n.) The act of making fat, or the state of being fat or fattened.

Impious (a.) Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language.

Impire (n.) See Umpire.

Impishly (a.) Having the qualities, or showing the characteristics, of an imp.

Impishly (adv.) In the manner of an imp.

Imppiteous (a.) Pitiless; cruel.

Implacability (n.) The quality or state of being implacable.

Implacable (a.) Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince.

Implacable (a.) Incapable of ebign relieved or assuaged; inextinguishable.

Implacableness (n.) The quality of being implacable; implacability.

Implacably (adv.) In an implacable manner.

Implacental (a.) Without a placenta, as marsupials and monotremes.

Implacental (n.) A mammal having no placenta.

Implacentalia (n. pl.) A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed.

Implanted (imp. & p. p.) of Implant

Implanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Implant

Implant (v. t.) To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth.

Implantation (n.) The act or process of implantating.

Implated (imp. & p. p.) of Implate

Implating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Implate

Implate (v. t.) To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.

Implausibility (n.) Want of plausibility; the quality of being implausible.

Implausible (a.) Not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed.

Impleach (v. t.) To pleach; to interweave.

Impleaded (imp. & p. p.) of Implead

Impleading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Implead

Implead (v. t.) To institute and prosecute a suit against, in court; to sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to impeach.

Implead (v. i.) To sue at law.

Impleadable (a.) Not admitting excuse, evasion, or plea; rigorous.

Impleader (n.) One who prosecutes or sues another.

Impleasing (a.) Unpleasing; displeasing.

Impledge (v. t.) To pledge.

Implement (n.) That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war.

Implement (v. t.) To accomplish; to fulfill.

Implement (v. t.) To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means of an implement or implements.

Implement (v. t.) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.

Implemental (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, implements or their use; mechanical.

Impletion (n.) The act of filling, or the state of being full.

Impletion (n.) That which fills up; filling.

Implex (a.) Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex.

Implexion (n.) Act of involving, or state of being involved; involution.

Impliable (a.) Not pliable; inflexible; inyielding.

Implicated (imp. & p. p.) of Implicate

Implicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Implicate

Implicate (v. t.) To infold; to fold together; to interweave.

Implicate (v. t.) To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; -- applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense; as, the evidence implicates many in this conspiracy; to be implicated in a crime, a discreditable transaction, a fault, etc.

Implication (n.) The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.

Implication (n.) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.

Implicative (a.) Tending to implicate.

Implicatively (adv.) By implication.

Implicit (a.) Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved.

Implicit (a.) Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied; as, an implicit contract or agreement.

Implicit (a.) Resting on another; trusting in the word or authority of another, without doubt or reserve; unquestioning; complete; as, implicit confidence; implicit obedience.

Implicitly (adv.) In an implicit manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence.

Implicitly (adv.) By implication; impliedly; as, to deny the providence of God is implicitly to deny his existence.

Implicitness (n.) State or quality of being implicit.

Implicity (n.) Implicitness.

Implied (a.) Virtually involved or included; involved in substance; inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or expressed. See Imply.

Impliedly (adv.) By implication or inference.

Imploded (a.) Formed by implosion.

Implodent (n.) An implosive sound.

Imploration (n.) The act of imploring; earnest supplication.

Implorator (n.) One who implores.

Imploratory (a.) Supplicatory; entreating.

Implored (imp. & p. p.) of Implore

Imploring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Implore

Implore (v. t.) To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought.

Implore (v. i.) To entreat; to beg; to prey.

Implore (n.) Imploration.

Implorer (n.) One who implores.

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