Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-PEO-PLE, v.t.

To form into a community. [See People.] Beaun.

IM-PEO-PLED, pp.

Formed into a community.

IM-PEO-PLING, ppr.

Forming into a community.

IMPE-RANT, a. [L. inipero.]

Commanding. Baxter.

IMPE-RATE, a. [L. imperiry tus, impero, to command.]

Done by impulse or direction of the mind. [Not used.] Smith. Hale.

IMPER'A-TIVE, a. [Fr. imperatif; L. imperatirus, from t impero, to command. See Empire.]

1. Commanding; expressive of command; containing positive command, as distinguished from advisory, or discretionary. The orders are imperative.
2. In grammar, the imperative mode of a verb is that which expresses command, entreaty, advice or exhortation; as, go, write, attend.

IM-PER'A-TIVE-LY, adv.

With command; authoritatively.

IM-PER-A-TORI-AL, a.

Commanding. [Not in use.]Norris.

IM-PER-CEIV-A-BLE, a.

Imperceptible.

IM-PER-CEIV-A-BLE-NESS, n.

Imperceptibleness.

IM-PER-CEPTI-BLE, a. [Fr.; in and perceptible.]

1. Not to be perceived; not to be known or discovered by the senses. We say a thing is imperccptible to the touch, to the eye or sight, to the ear, to the taste or smell. Hence,
2. Very small or fine; minute in dimensions; or very slow in motion or progress; as, the growth of a plant or animal is imperceptible; it is too slow to be perceived by the eye.

IM-PER-CEP'TI-BLE, n.

That which can not be rceived by the senses on account of its smallness. [Little used.] Taller.

IM-PER-CEP'TI-BLE-NESS, n.

The quality of being perceptible. Hale.

IM-PER-CEP'TI-BLY, adv.

In a manner not to be perceived. Addison.

IM-PER-CIPI-ENT, a.

Not perceiving or having power to perceive. Barter.

IM-PERDI-BLE, a.

Not destructible. [Not a legitimate word.]

IM-PER'FECT, a.

In botany, wanting either stamens or pistils; as a flower.

IM-PER'FECT, a. [L. imperfectus; in and perfectus, finished, perfect; perficto, to perfect; per and facto, to make.]

1. Not finished; not complete. The work or design is imperfect.
2. Defective; not entire, sound or whole; wanting a part; impaired. The writings of Livy are imperfect.
3. Not perfect in intellect; liable to err; as, men are imperfect; our minds and understandings are imperfect.
4. Not perfect in a moral view; not according to the laws of God, or the rules of right. Our services and obedience are imperfect.
5. In grammar, the imperfect tense denotes an action in time past, then present, but not finished.
6. In music, incomplete; not having all the accessary sounds; as, an imperfect chord. An imperfect interval is one which does not contain its complement of simple sounds. Busby.

IM-PER-FECTION, n. [Fr. from L. imperfectio, supra.]

1. Defect; fault; the want of a part or of something necessary to complete a thing; equally applicable to physical or moral subjcets. When fruit fails to come to maturity, and after it begins to decay, we denominate the defect, as imperfection. Laws sometimes fail of the intended effect, either from their imperfection, or from the imperfection of the administration. Men are all chargeable with imperfections, both in character and in conduct.
2. In book-binding, a sheet or signature wanting to complete a book.

IM-PER'FECT-LY, adv.

In an imperfect manner or degree; not fully; not entirely; not completely; not in the best manner; not without. fault or failure.

IM-PERFECT-NESS, n.

The state of being imperfect.

IM-PER'FO-RA-BLE, a. [infra.]

That can not be perfected or bored through.

IM-PER'FO-RATE, a. [L. in and perforatus, perforo.]

Not perforated or pierced; having no opening. Sharpe.

IM-PER'FO-RA-TED, a.

1. Not perforated. Brown.
2. Having no pores. Sir J. Banks.

IM-PER-FO-RA'TION, n.

The state of being not perforated, or without any aperture.