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Immanuel

God with us; -- an appellation of the Christ.

Immask

To cover, as with a mask; to disguise or conceal.

Immaterial

Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied.

Immaterialism

The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible.

Immateriality

The state or quality of being immaterial or incorporeal; as, the immateriality of the soul.

Immaterially

In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance.

Immaterialness

The state or quality of being immaterial; immateriality.

Immature

Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.

Immatureness

The state or quality of being immature; immaturity.

Immaturity

The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness.

Immeability

Lack of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness.

Immeasurable

Incapable of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast.

Immediacy

The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.

Immediate

Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

Immediately

In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous.

Immediateness

The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.

Immemorial

Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial.

Immense

Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.

Immensity

The state or quality of being immense; inlimited or immeasurable extension; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk; greatness.

Immerge

To dissapear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun.

Immerse

To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.

Immersed

Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid.

Immersion

The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.

Immersionist

One who holds the doctrine that immersion is essential to Christian baptism.

Immesh

To catch or entangle in, or as in, the meshes of a net. or in a web; to insnare.

Immethodical

Not methodical; without method or systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused.

Immethodize

To render immethodical; to destroy the method of; to confuse.

Immigrant

One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.

Immigrate

To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate.

Immigration

The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.

Imminence

The condition or quality of being imminent; a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress.

imminency

the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon; imminence.

Imminent

Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril.

Immingle

To mingle; to mix; to unite; to blend.

Immission

The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission.

Immit

To send in; to inject; to infuse; -- the correlative of emit.

Immitigable

Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased.

Immobile

Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable.

Immobility

The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state.

immobilization immobilisation

The act or process of limiting movement or making incapable of movement; as, immobilization of the injured knee was necessary; the storm caused complete immobilization of the rescue team.

Immobilize

To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.

Immoderate

Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter.

Immodest

Not limited to due bounds; immoderate.

Immodesty

Lack of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency.

Immolate

To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim.

Immolation

The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed.

Immolator

One who offers in sacrifice; specifically, one of a sect of Russian fanatics who practice self-mutilation and sacrifice.

Immoral

Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed.

Immorality

The state or quality of being immoral; vice.

Immortal

One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation.

Immortalist

One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul.

Immortality

The quality or state of being immortal; exemption from death and annihilation; unending existance; as, the immortality of the soul.

Immortelle

A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting.

Immovability

The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose.

Immune

One who is immune; esp., a person who is immune from a disease by reason of previous affection with the disease or inoculation.

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