Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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-PAS'SIVE-NESS, n.

The state of being insusceptible of pain. Mountagu.

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

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

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

The mixtion 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.t. [Fr. empâter; in and pâte, 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 over; 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 is not rage, nor absolute inability to bear pain; but it implies want of fortitude, or of its exercise. It usually springs from irritability of temper.

IM-PA'TIENT, 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 man 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 of 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-PA'TIENT, n.

One who is restless under suffering. [Unusual.]

IM-PA'TIENT-LY, adv.

1. With uneasiness or restlessness; as, to bear disappointment impatiently.
2. With eager desire causing uneasiness; as, to wait impatiently for the arrival of one's friend.
3. Passionately; ardently. Clarendon.

IM-PAT-RON-I-ZA'TION, n.

Absolute seignory or possession. Cotgrave.

IM-PAT'RON-IZE, v.t. [Fr. impatroniser.]

To gain to one's self the power of any seignory. Bacon.

IM-PAWN', v.t. [in and pawn.]

To pawn; to pledge; to deposit as security. Shak.

IM-PAWN'ED, pp.

Pledged.

IM-PAWN'ING, ppr.

Pledging.

IM-PEACH', n.

Hinderance. [Obs.]

IM-PEACH', v.t. [Fr. empêcher; Arm. ampeich, ampechein; Port. and Sp. empachar; It. impacciare; to hinder, to stop. It signifies also in Portuguese, to surfeit, to overload, to glut. It belongs to the family of pack; L. pango, pactus; Ar. بَكً bakka, to press or compress. Class Bg, No. 18, 20, 61. The literal sense of impeach is to thrust or send against; hence, to hinder, to stop.]

1. To hinder; to impede. This sense is found in our early writers. These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land. Davies. A defluxion on my throat impeached my utterance. Howell. [This application of the word is obsolete.]
2. To accuse; to charge with a crime or misdemeanor; but appropriately, to exhibit charges of maladministration against a public officer before a competent tribunal, that is, to send or put on, to load. The word is now restricted to accusations made by authority; as, to impeach a judge. [See Impeachment.]
3. To accuse; to censure; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.
4. To call to account; to charge as answerable.

IM-PEACH'A-BLE, a.

1. Liable to accusation; chargeable with a crime; accusable; censurable.
2. Liable to be called in question; accountable. Owners of lands in fee simple are not impeachable for waste. Z. Swift.

IM-PEACH'ED, pp.

1. Hindered. [Obs.]
2. Accused; charged with a crime, misdemeanor or wrong; censured. The first donee in tail may commit waste, without being impeached. Z. Swift.

IM-PEACH'ER, n.

An accuser by authority; one who calls in question.