Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-PIERCE', v.t.

To pierce through; to penetrate. Drayton.

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

Not to be pierced or penetrated. Spenser.

IM-PIERC'ED, pp.

Pierced through.

IM-PIERC'ING, ppr.

Piercing through.

IM-PI'E-TY, n. [Fr. impieté; 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; but 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-RA'TION, 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-PINGE'MENT, n.

Act of impinging. D. Clinton.

IM-PING'ING, ppr.

Striking against.

IM-PIN'GUATE, v.t. [L. in and pinguis, fat.]

To fatten; to make fat. [Not in use.] Bacon.

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

1. Irreverent toward the Supreme Being; wanting in veneration for God and his authority; irreligious; profane. The scoffer at God and his authority is impious. The profane swearer is impious. When, 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.

IMP'ISH, a.

Having the qualities of an imp.

IM-PLA-CA-BIL'I-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 placo, 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 or subdued; inexorably; as, to hate a person implacably.

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

To set, plant or infix for the purpose of growth; as, to implant 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.]

IM-PLANT-A'TION, n.

The act of setting or infixing in the mind or heart, as principles or first rudiments. Brown,

IM-PLANT'ED, pp.

Set; infixed in the mind, as principle or rudiments.

IM-PLANT'ING, ppr.

Setting or infixing in the mind, as principles.

IM-PLAU-SI-BIL'I-TY, n. [from implausible.]

The quality of not being plausible or specious.

IM-PLAUS'I-BLE, a. [s as z. in and plausible.]

Not specious; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed; as, an implausible harangue. Swift.

IM-PLAUS'I-BLE-NESS, n.

State of not being plausible.