Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-PET-U-OS'I-TY, n. [See Impetuous.]

1. A rushing with violence and great force; fury; violence.
2. Vehemence; furiousness of temper.

IM-PET'U-OUS, a. [Fr. inipetueux; L. impetuosus, from impetus, impeto; in and peto, to urge, to rush. See Bid.]

1. Rushing with great force and violence; moving rapidly; furious; forcible; fierce; raging; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent.
2. Vehement of mind; fierce; hasty; passionate; violent; as, a man of impetuous temper.

IM-PET'U-OUS-LY, adv.

Violently; fiercely; forcibly; with haste and force. Addison.

IM-PET'U-OUS-NESS, n.

1. A driving or rushing with haste and violence; furiousness; fury; violence.
2. Vehemence of temper; violence.

IMPE-TUS, n.

In gunnery, the altitude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece. Brande.

IMPE-TUS, n. [L. supra.]

1. Force of motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled.
2. The force with which one body in motion strikes another.

IM-PIC'TUR-ED, a.

Painted; impressed. Spenser.

IM'PIER,

See UMPIRE.

IM-PIERCE-A-BLE, a. [in and pierce.]

Not to be pierced or penetrated. Spenser.

IM-PIERC-ED, pp.

Pierced through.

IM-PIERCING, ppr.

Piercing through.

IM-PI'E-TY, n. [Fr. impiety; L. impietas; in and pietas, pius.]

1. Ungodliness; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; contempt of the divine character and authority; neglect of the divine precepts. These constitute different degrees of impiety.
2. Any act of wickedness, as blasphemy and scoffing at the Supreme Being, or at his authority; profaneness. Any expression of contempt for God or his laws, constitutes an 'Impiety of the highest degree of criminality. Disobedience to the divine commands or neglect of duty implies contempt for his authority, and is therefore impiety. Impiety, when it expresses the temper or disposition, has no plural; bit; it is otherwise when it expresses an act of wickedness, for all such acts are impieties.

IM-PIG'NO-RATE, v.t.

To pledge or pawn. [Not in use.]

IM-PIG-NO-RATION, a.

The act of pawning. [Not in use.]

IM-PINGE', v.i. [impinj. L. impingo; in and pango, to strike. See Pack.]

To fall against; to strike; to dash against; to clash upon. The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies. Newton.

IM-PINGEMENT, n.

Art of impinging. D. Clinton.

IM-PING'ING, ppr.

Striking against.

IM'PI-OUS, a. [L. impius; in and pius, pions.]

1. Irreverent toward the Supreme Being; wanting veneration for God and his authority; irreligious; profane. The scoffer at God and his authority is impious. The profane swearer is impious. Whet, vice prevails and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. Addison.
2. Irreverent toward God; proceeding from or manifesting a contempt for the Supreme Being; tending to dishonor God or his laws, and bring them into contempt; as, an impious deed; impious language; impious writings.

IM'PI-OUS-LY, adv.

With irreverence for God, or contempt for his authority; profanely; wickedly.

IM'PI-OUSNESS, a.

Impiety; contempt of God and his laws.

IMPISH, a.

Hiving the qualities of an imp.

IM-PLA-CA-BILI-TY, or IM-PLA'CA-BLE-NESS, n. [from implacable.]

The quality of not being appeasable; inexorableness; irreconcilable enmity or anger.

IM-PLA'CA-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. implacabilis; in and placabilis, from placer, to appease.]

1. Not to be appeased; that can not be pacified and rendered peaceable; inexorable; stubborn or constant in enmity; as, an implacable prince.
2. Not to be appeased or subdued; as, implacable anger; implacable enmity, malice or revenge.

IM-PLA'CA-BLY, adv.

With enmity not to be pacified cm subdued; inexorably; as, to hate a person implacably.

IM-PLANT', v.t. [tin and plant, L. planto.]

To set, plant or infix for the purpose of growth; as, to ism plant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge in the minds of youth; to implant grace in the heart. [It is now seldom or never used in its literal sense for setting plants or seeds in the earth.]