Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 8

Imaginable (a.) Capable of being imagined; conceivable.

Imaginal (a.) Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.

Imaginal (a.) Of or pertaining to an imago.

Imaginant (a.) Imagining; conceiving.

Imaginant (n.) An imaginer.

Imaginarily (a.) In a imaginary manner; in imagination.

Imaginariness (n.) The state or quality of being imaginary; unreality.

Imaginary (a.) Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal.

Imaginary (n.) An imaginary expression or quantity.

Imaginate (a.) Imaginative.

Imagination (n.) The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.

Imagination (n.) The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.

Imagination (n.) The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.

Imagination (n.) A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.

Imaginational (a.) Pertaining to, involving, or caused by, imagination.

Imaginationalism (n.) Idealism.

Imaginative (a.) Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word.

Imaginative (a.) Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative.

Imaginative (a.) Unreasonably suspicious; jealous.

Imagined (imp. & p. p.) of Imagine

Imagining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imagine

Imagine (v. t.) To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.

Imagine (v. t.) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5.

Imagine (v. t.) To represent to one's self; to think; to believe.

Imagine (v. i.) To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.

Imagine (v. i.) To think; to suppose.

Imaginer (n.) One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives.

Imaginous (a.) Imaginative.

Imagoes (pl. ) of Imago

Imago (n.) An image.

Imago (n.) The final adult, and usually winged, state of an insect. See Illust. of Ant-lion, and Army worm.

Imam (n.) Alt. of Imaum

Iman (n.) Alt. of Imaum

Imaum (n.) Among the Mohammedans, a minister or priest who performs the regular service of the mosque.

Imaum (n.) A Mohammedan prince who, as a successor of Mohammed, unites in his person supreme spiritual and temporal power.

Imaret (n.) A lodging house for Mohammedan pilgrims.

Imbalm (v. t.) See Embalm.

Imban (v. t.) To put under a ban.

Imband (v. t.) To form into a band or bands.

Imbanked (imp. & p. p.) of Imbank

Imbanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbank

Imbank (v. t.) To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank.

Imbankment (n.) The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment.

Imbannered (a.) Having banners.

Imbar (v. t.) To bar in; to secure.

Imbargo (n.) See Embargo.

Imbark (v. i. & t.) See Embark.

Imbarn (v. t.) To store in a barn.

Imbase (v. t.) See Embase.

Imbase (v. i.) To diminish in value.

Imbastardize (v. t.) To bastardize; to debase.

Imbathe (v. t.) To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce.

Imbay (v. t.) See Embay.

Imbecile (a.) Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane.

Imbecile (n.) One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind.

Imbecile (v. t.) To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage.

Imbecilitate (v. t.) To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble.

Imbecilities (pl. ) of Imbecility

Imbecility (n.) The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind.

Imbedded (imp. & p. p.) of Imbed

Imbedding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbed

Imbed (v. t.) To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.

Imbellic (a.) Not warlike or martial.

Imbenching (n.) A raised work like a bench.

Imber-goose (n.) The loon. See Ember-goose.

Imbezzle (v. t.) See Embezzle.

Imbibed (imp. & p. p.) of Imbibe

Imbibing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbibe

Imbibe (v. t.) To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.

Imbibe (v. t.) To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors.

Imbibe (v. t.) To saturate; to imbue.

Imbiber (n.) One who, or that which, imbibes.

Imbibition (n.) The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post-mortem imbibition of poisons.

Imbittered (imp. & p. p.) of Imbitter

Imbittering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbitter

Imbitter (v. t.) To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant.

Imbitterer (n.) One who, or that which, imbitters.

Imbitterment (n.) The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.

Imblaze (v. t.) See Emblaze.

Imblazon (v. t.) See Emblazon.

Imbody (v. i.) To become corporeal; to assume the qualities of a material body. See Embody.

Imboil (v. t. & i.) See Emboil.

Imbolden (v. t.) See Embolden.

Imbonity (n.) Want of goodness.

Imbordered (imp. & p. p.) of Imborder

Imbordering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imborder

Imborder (v. t.) To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of.

Imbosked (imp. & p. p.) of Imbosk

Imbosking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbosk

Imbosk (v. t.) To conceal, as in bushes; to hide.

Imbosk (v. i.) To be concealed.

Imbosomed (imp. & p. p.) of Imbosom

Imbosoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbosom

Imbosom (v. t.) To hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection; to embosom.

Imbosom (v. t.) To inclose or place in the midst of; to surround or shelter; as, a house imbosomed in a grove.

Imboss (v. t.) See Emboss.

Imbosture (n.) Embossed or raised work.

Imbound (v. t.) To inclose in limits; to shut in.

Imbow (v. t.) To make like a bow; to curve; to arch; to vault; to embow.

Imbowel (v. t.) See Embowel.

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