Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-MOD'ER-ATE, a. [L. immoderatus; in and moderatus. See Moderate.]

Exceeding just or usual bounds; not confined to suitable limits; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; excessive passions, cares or grief.

IM-MOD'ER-ATE-LY, adv.

Excessively; to an undue degree; unreasonably; as, to weep immoderately.

IM-MOD'ER-ATE-NESS, n.

Excess; extravagance. Shelford.

IM-MOD'ER-A-TION, n.

Excess; want of moderation. Hammond.

IM-MOD'EST, a. [Fr. immodeste; L. immodestus; in and modestus, modest. See the latter.]

1. Literally, not limited to due bounds. Hence, in a general sense, immoderate; exorbitant; unreasonable; arrogant.
2. Appropriately, wanting in the reserve or restraint which decency requires; wanting in decency and delicacy. It is immodest to treat superiors with the familiarity that is customary among equals.
3. Wanting in chastity; unchaste; lewd; as, an immodest female.
4. Impure; indelicate; as, an immodest thought. Dryden.
5. Obscene; as, an immodest word.

IM-MOD'EST-LY, adv.

Without due reserve; indecently; unchastely; obscenely.

IM-MOD'ES-TY, n. [L. immodestia.]

1. Want of modesty; indecency; unchastity.
2. Want of delicacy or decent reserve.

IM'MO-LATE, v.t. [Fr. immoler; L. immolo, to sacrifice; in and mola, meal sprinkled with salt, which was thrown on the head of the victim.]

1. To sacrifice; to kill, as a victim offered in sacrifice. Boyle.
2. To offer in sacrifice. Now immolate the tongues and mix the wine. Pope.

IM'MO-LA-TED, pp.

Sacrificed; offered in sacrifice. From the same altar on which the small states shall be immolated, will rise the smoke of sacrificed liberty, and despotism must be the dreadful successor. U. Tracy.

IM'MO-LA-TING, ppr.

Sacrificing; offering, as a victim.

IM-MO-LA'TION, n.

1. The act of sacrificing. Brown
2. A sacrifice offered.

IM'MO-LA-TOR, n.

One who offers in sacrifice.

IM-MOLD', v.t.

To mold into shape; to form. Fletcher.

IM-MOLD'ED, pp.

Molded into shape.

IM-MOLD'ING, ppr.

Molding into shape.

IM-MO'MENT, a.

Trifling. [Not English.] Shak.

IM-MO-MENT'OUS, a.

Unimportant. Seward.

IM-MOR'AL, a. [in and moral.]

1. Inconsistent with moral rectitude; contrary to the moral or divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious. Every action is immoral which contravenes any divine precept, or which is contrary to the duties which men owe to each other.
2. Wicked or unjust in practice; vicious; dishonest; as, an immoral man. Every man who violates a divine law or a social duty, is immoral, but we particularly apply the term to a person who habitually violates the laws.

IM-MO-RAL'I-TY, n.

Any act or practice which contravenes the divine commands or the social duties. Injustice, dishonesty, fraud, slander, profaneness, gaming, intemperance, lewdness, are immoralities. All crimes are immoralities; but crime expresses more than immorality.

IM-MOR'AL-LY, adv.

Wickedly; viciously; in violation of law or duty.

IM-MO-RIG'ER-OUS, a. [Low L. immoriger.]

Rude; uncivil. Stackhouse.

IM-MO-RIG'ER-OUS-NESS, n.

Rudeness; disobedience. Bp. Taylor.

IM-MOR'TAL, a. [L. immortalis. See Mortal.]

1. Having no principle of alteration or corruption; exempt from death; having life or being that shall never end; as, an immortal soul. To the King eternal, immortal, invisible, God the only wise, be honor and glory forever. 1 Tim. i.
2. Never ending; everlasting; continual. I have / Immortal longings in me. Shak.
3. Perpetual; having unlimited existence. A corporation is called an immortal being.
4. Destined to live in all ages of this world; imperishable; as, immortal fame. So Homer is called the immortal bard

IM-MOR-TAL'I-TY, n.

1. The quality of never ceasing to live or exist; exemption from death and annihilation; life destined to endure without end; as, the immortality of the human soul. Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 2 Tim. i.
2. Exemption from oblivion.
3. Perpetuity; existence not limited; as, the immortality of a corporation. J. Marshall.

IM-MOR-TAL-I-ZA'TION, n.

The act of immortalizing.