Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-MOV'A-BLE-NESS, n.

The quality of being immovable.

IM-MOV'A-BLY, adv.

In a manner not to be moved from its place or purpose; or in a manner not to be shaken; unalterably; unchangeably. Immovably firm to their duty; immovably fixed or established.

IM-MUND', a. [L. immundus.]

Unclean.

IM-MUN-DIC'I-TY, n.

Uncleanness. Mountagu.

IM-MUNI-TY, n. [Fr. immunit; irnmunitas, from un. mania, free, exempt; in and menus, charge, office, duty.]

1. Freedom or exemption from obligation. To be exempted from observing the rites or duties of the church, is an imunity.
2. Exemption from any charge, duty, office, tax or imposition; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.
3. Freedom; as, an immunity from error. Dryden.

IM-MURE, n.

A wall. [Not used.]. Shak.

IM-MURE, v.t. [Norm. emmurrer, to wall in; Sw. inmura, i L. in and mums, a wall.]

1. To inclose within walls; to shut up; to confine; as, to immure nuns in cloisters. The student immures himself voluntarily.
2. To wall; to surround with walls. Lysimachus immured it with a wall. [Not usual.] Sandy.
3. To imprison. Deaham.

IM-MUR-ED, pp.

Confined within walls.

IM-MUR-ING, ppr.

Confining within walls.

IM-MU'SIC-AL, a. [in and musical.]

Not musical; inharmonious; not accordant; harsh. Bacon. Brown.

IM-MU-TA-BIL'I-TY, n. [Fr. immutability; L. inimutabilitas; in and mutabilis, mutable, from noto, to change.]

Unchangeableness; the quality that renders change or alteration impossible; invariableness. Immutability is an attribute of God.

IM-MU'TA-BLE, a.

immutabilis; in and mutabilis.] Unchangeable; invariable; unalterable; not capable or susceptible of change. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for Cod to lie, we might have strong consolation. Heb. vi.

IM-MU'TA-BLE-NESS, n.

Unchangeableness; immutability.

IM-MUTA-BLY, adv.

Unchangeably; unalterably; invariably; in a manner that admits of no change. Bole.

IM-MU'TATE, a. [L. immutatus.]

Unchanged.

IM-MU-TA'TION, n. [L. inuoutatio.]

Change; alteration. More.

IM-MUTE, v.t.

To change or alter. Salkeld.

IMP, n. [W. imp, a shoot or cion; Sw. yap, Dan. ripe, id.]

1. A son; offspring; progeny. The tender imp was weaned. Fairfax. A lad of life, an imp of fame. Shak.
2. A subaltern or puny devil. Hooker. Milton. [“Imp, an addition to a bee-hive; also, one length of hair twisted, as forming part of a fishing-line.” J.T. Brockett's Glossary of North Country Words, 2^nd edit. p. 164.—E. H. B.]

IMP, v.t. [W. inipiaw G. impfen, Sw. ympa, Sax. impan, B Dan. riper, to ingraft; D. eat, a graft; eaten, to ingraft.]

1. To graft. Chaucer.
2. To lengthen; extend or enlarge by something inserted or added; a term originally used by falconers, who repair hawk's wing by adding feathers. Imp set our drooping country broken wings. Shak. The false north displays Her broken league to imp her serpent wings. This verb is, I believe, used only in poetry. [In falconry, to imp a feather in a hawk's wing, is to add a new piece to a mutilated stump, from the Saxon impan, to ingraft. Spenser.]

IM-PA'CA-BLE, a. [L. in and pace, to appease.]

Not to be appeased or. quieted. Spenser.

IM-PA'CA-BLY, adv.

In a manner not admitting of being appeased.

IM-PACT', n.

In mechanics, the instantaneous action of one body on another to put in motion.

IM-PACT, n.

Touch; impression. Darwin.

IM-PACT', v.t. [L. impact us, from impingo; in and pango, to drive.]

To drive close; to press or drive firmly together. Woodward.

IM-PACTED, pp.

Driven hard; made close by driving. Woodward.