Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: impotent – in
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impotent, adj. [Fr. < L. impotentem.] (webplay: nature).
Lacking power or ability; unable.
impoverish, v. [OFr empoveriss < L., make poor.]
Exhaust strength.
impregnability, n. [see impregnable, adj.] (webplay: moved).
Quality of being unconquerable.
impregnable, adj. [Fr. imprenable.] (webplay: assault, fortress, moved, taken).
- Impenetrable.
- Not reducible by force.
- Invincible.
- Not to be moved, impressed or shaken.
imprint (-ed), v. [OFr < L. impreměre.] (webplay: father's).
Impress; mark; stamp.
imprisonment, n. [OFr emprisonnement.]
Confining to a place.
improve (improving), v. [Anglo Fr. emprower.]
Make better or greater; advance the condition of; profit.
impudent, adj. [Fr. < L. impudēns, shameless.] (webplay: others).
- Saucy.
- Impertinent; inspite of; boldly disrespectful.
impute, v. [Fr. imputer < L.] (webplay: blame).
Reckon; make charges against.
in, prep. [Gmc.] (webplay: air, because, blessed, blinded, Christ, city, close, coal, combined, day, declaring, deed, died, earth, error, fact, glorified, God, health, heat, hill, hour, house, inclosed, land, limits, love, mixed, multiply, name, near, office, part, people, port, prayer, quality, reason, sake, seeing, ship, sickness, sinners, spirits, stead, surface, surrounded, swearing, tea, ten, through, time, under, valley).
- Coming as; arriving by.
- During; at a time of.
- Using; on behalf of; for the sake of; by virtue of; by the authority of; by means of.
- By; through the medium of.
- Located upon