Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-MO-LA-TED, pp.

Sacrificed; offered in sacrifice. From the same altar on which the small states shall be immolated, will rise the smoke of sacrificed liberty, and despotism must be the dreadful succcssor. U. Tracy.

IM'MO-LA-TING, ppr.

Sacrificing; offering, as a victim.

IM-MO-LA'TION, n.

1. The act of sacrificing. Brown
2. A sacrifice offered.

IM'MO-LA-TOR, n.

One who offers in sacrifice.

IM-MOLD, v.t.

To mold into shape; to form. Fletcher.

IM-MOLD-ED, pp.

Molded into shape.

IM-MOLD-ING, ppr.

Molding into shape.

IM-MOMENT, a.

Trifling. [Not English.] Shak.

IM-MO-MENT'OUS, a.

Unimportant. Seward.

IM-MOR'AL, a. [in and moral.]

1. Inconsistent with moral rectitude; contrary to the moral or divine law; wicked unjust; dishonest; vicious. Every action is immoral which contravenes any divine precept, or which is contrary to the duties which men owe to each other.
2. Wicked or unjust in practice; vicious; dishonest; as, an immoral man. Every man who violates a divine law or social duty, is immoral, but we particularly apply the term to a person who habitually violates the laws.

IM-MO-RAL'I-TY, n.

Any act or practice which contravenes the divine commands or the social duties. Injustice dishonesty, fraud, slander, profaneness, gaming, intemperate, lewdness, are immoralities. All erimes are immoralities; but crime expresses more than immorality.

IM-MORAL-LY, adv.

Wickedly; viciously; in violation of law or duty.

IM-MO-RIG'ER-OUS, a. [Low L. immoriger.]

Rude; uncivil. Stackhouse

IM-MO-RIG'ER-OUS-NESS, n.

Rudeness; disobedience Bp. Taylor

IM-MORTAL, a. [L. immortalis. See Mortal]

1. Having no principle of alteration or corruption; exempt from death; having life or being that shall never end; as an immortal soul. To the King eternal, immortal, invisible, God the only wise be honor and glory forever. 1 Tim. I.
2. Never ending; everlasting; continual. I have Immortal longings in me. Shak
3. Perpetual; having unlimited existence. A corporation called an immortal being.
4. Destined to live in all ages of this world; imperishable fame. So Homer is called the immortal bard

IM-MOR-TALITY, n.

1. The quality of never ceasing to live or exist; exemption from death and annihilation; life defined to endure without end; as, the immortality of the human soul. Jesus Christ, who hall abolished death, and hath through rife sad immortality to light through the gospel. 2 Tim.
2. Exemption from oblivion.
3. Perpetuity; existence not limited; as, the immortality of corporation. J. Marshall

IM-MOR-TAL-I-ZA'TION, n.

The act of immortalizing.

IM-MOR'TAL-IZE, v.i.

To become immortal. [Not in use.] Pope.

IM-MORTAL-IZE, v.t. [Fr. immortaliser; Sp. immortal Oar.]

1. To render immortal; to make perpetual; to cause to be, or exist while the world shall endure. The Iliad has immortalized the name of Homer. Alexander had nallomer to immortalise his guilty name. T. Dowel
2. To exempt from oblivion; to make perpetual.

IM-MOR'TAL-IZ-ED, pp.

Rendered immortal or perpetual.

IM-MORTAL-IZ-ING, ppr.

Making immortal or perpetual.

IM-MOR'TAL-LY, adv.

With endless existence; with exemption from death.

IM-MOR-TI-FI-CA'TION, n. [in and mortification.]

Want of subjection of the passions. Bp. Taylor.

IM-MOV-A-BILI-TY, n.

Steadfastness that can not be moved or shaken.

IM-MOVA-BLE, a. [in and movable.]

1. That can not be moved from its place; as, an immovable foundation.
2. Not to be moved from a purpose; steadfast; fixed; that can not be induced to change or alter; as, a man who remains immovable.
3. That can not be altered or shaken; unalterable; unchangeable; as, an immovable purpose or resolution.
4. That can not be affected or moved; not impressible; not susceptible of compassion or tender feelings; unfeeling. Dryden.
5. Fixed; not liable to be removed; permanent in place; as, immovable estate. Blackstone. Aylife.
6. Not to be shaken or agitated.