Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-PAR-TIAL-LY, adv.

Without bias of judgment; without prejudice; without inclination to favor one party or side more than another; equitably; justly.

IM-PART-I-BIL'I-TY, n.

1. The quality of not being subject to partition.
2. The quality of being capable of being communicated.

IM-PART-I-BLE, a. [Sp. impartible; in and partible.]

1. Not partible or subject to partition; as, an impartible estate. Blackstone
2. [from impart.] That may be imparted, conferred, bestowed or communicated. Digby. IM-PART-ING, ppr. Communicating; granting; bestowing.

IM-PART-MENT, n.

The act of imparting; the communication of knowledge; disclosure.

IM-PASS-A-BLE, a. [in and passable. See Pass.]

That can not be passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain or gulf. Milton. Temple.

IM-PASS-A-BLE-NESS, n.

The state of being impassable.

IM-PASS-A-BLY, adv.

In a manner or degree that prevents passing, or the power of passing.

IM-PAS'SI-BLE, a. [Fr. impassible; Sp. tinpaak; passibifis, from passes, patios, to suffer.]

Incapable of pain, passion or suffering; that can not be affected with pain or uneasiness. Whatever is destitute of sensation is impassible. Though naked and impassible, depart. Dryden.

IM-PAS'SION, v.i. [in and passion.]

To move or affect strongly with passion.

IM-PASSION-A-BLE, a.

Easily excited to anger; susceptible of strong emotion.

IM-PASSION-ATE, a.

1. Strongly affected.
2. Without passion or feeling. Barton.

IM-PAS'SION-ATE, v.t.

To affect powerfully. More.

IM-PAS'SION-ED, a.

1. Actuated or agitated by passion. The tempter all impassioned, thus began. Milton.
2. Animated; excited; having the feelings warmed; as, an impassioned orator.
3. Animated; expressive of passion or ardor; as, an impassioned discourse.

IM-PAS'SIVE, a. [L. in and passus, patior, to suffer.]

Not susceptible of pain or suffering; as, the impassive air impassive ice. Dryden. Pope

IM-PAS'SIVE-LY, adv.

Without sensibility to pain or suffering.

IM-PASSIVE-NESS, n.

The state of being insusceptible of pain. Mountagu

IM-PAS-SIV'I-TY, n.

The quality of being insusceptible to feeling, pain or suffering. Pausanias, Trans.

IM-PASTA'TION, n. [in and paste.]

The minion of various materials of different colors and consistencies, baked or united by a cement, and hardened by the air or by fire. Chambers

IM-PASTE, v.i. [Fr. emptter; in and pate, paste.]

1. To knead; to make into paste.
2. In painting, to lay on colors thick and bold.

IM-PAST-ED, a.

1. Concreted, as into paste. Shak.
2. Pasted ever; covered with paste, or with thick paint.

IM-PAST-ING, ppr.

Making into paste.

IM-PAT'I-BLE, a. [L. impatibilis.]

Intolerable; that can not be borne.

IM-PA'TIENCE, n. [Fr.; L. impatientia, from impatiens; in and patior, to suffer.]

Uneasiness under pain or suffering; the not enduring pain with composure; restlessness occasioned by suffering positive evil, or the absence of expected good. Impatience not rage, nor absolute inability to bear pam; but it implies want of fortitude, or of its exercise. It usually springs iron irritability of temper.

IM-PATIENT, a. [L. impatiens.]

1. Uneasy or fretful under suffering; not bearing pain with composure; not enduring evil without fretfulness, uneasiness, and a desire or effort to get rid of the evil. Young men are impatient of restraint. We are all apt to be impatient under wrongs; but it is a Christian duty not to be impatient in sickness, or under any afflictive dispensation of Providence.
2. Not suffering quietly; not enduring. Fame, impatient of extremes, decays Not more by envy than excess of praise. Pope
3. Hasty; eager; not enduring delay. The impatient ma will not wait for information; he often acts with precipitance. Be not impatient for the return of spring.
4. Not to be borne; as, impatient smart Spenser This word is followed by of, at, for, or under. We are impatient of restraint, or of wrongs; impatient at the delay expected good; impatient for the return of a friend, or for the arrival of the mail; impatient under evils of any kind. The proper use of these particles can be learnt only by practice or observation.

IM-PATIENT, n.

One who is restless under suffering. [Unusual.]