Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IM-ME-A-BIL'I-TY
IM-MA-TURE'NESS, or IM-MA-TU'RI-TYIM-MEAS'UR-A-BLE
IM-ME-A-BIL'I-TY, n. [L. in and meo, to pass.]
Want of power to pass. Arbuthnot. The proper sense is, the quality of not being permeable, or not affording a passage through the pores. [Little used.]
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