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

Beyond memory.

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

In immense manner or degree.

The state of being immense.

Immeasurable.

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

Huge.

The quality of being immensurable.

Immeasurable.

Unmeasured; unlimited.

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

Lack of worth; demerit.

Unmerited.

Undeserving.

See Immersible.

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

Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid.

Not capable of being immersed.

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.

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

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

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

Without method; confusedly; unsystematically.

Lack of method.

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

Not metrical or rhythmical.

See Emmew.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In an imminent manner.

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

A lessening; diminution; decrease.

Incapability of being mixed, or mingled.

Not capable of being mixed or mingled.

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

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

Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased.

In an immitigable manner.

To mix; to mingle.

Not mixable.

Unmixed.

Freedom from mixture; purity.

Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable.

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

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.

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

See Immobile.

Immoderateness.

Immoderateness; excess.

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

In an immoderate manner; excessively.

The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance.

Lack of moderation.

Not limited to due bounds; immoderate.

In an immodest manner.

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

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

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

Trifling.

Not momentous; unimportant; insignificant.

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.

The state or quality of being immoral; vice.

In an immoral manner; wickedly.

Rude; uncivil; disobedient.

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

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

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

The act of immortalizing, or state of being immortalized.

To become immortal.

In an immortal manner.

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

Failure to mortify the passions.

To mold into shape, or form.

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

That which can not be moved.

Quality of being immovable.

In an immovable manner.

Unclean.

Uncleanness; filthiness.

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

The complex of cells, cellular processes, and substances within and diffused throughout an organism which allow the organism to counteract or destroy noxious foreign substances introduced into the body, destroy infectious agents such as bacteria and viruses, destroy malignant cells, and remove cellular debris, thus protecting the organism against many of the potentially harmful external agents and internal events that could lead to sickness or death. The system has numerous interacting components, including circulating antibodies, antibody-producing cells, white blood cells and lymphokines, lymph tissue and lymph nodes, and stem cells which may differentiate into other types of cell, together with the thymus and spleen. The system is responsible for the phenomenon of immunity{3}. See also immunoglobulin and antibody.

Same as immunization.

Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.

the act of making immune (especially by inoculation).

rendered less susceptible (to disease) by treatment with a vaccine.

electrophoresis to separate antigens and antibodies.

any substance that produces immunity when introduced into the body.

any one of a class of globular proteins which are antibodies and are produced by the immune system in animals.

Of or pertaining to immunology.

The science which studies the immune system, the processes of immunity, and the nature of the immune response, and techniques of analysis which use the immune response.

A wall; an inclosure.

The act of immuring, or the state of being immured; imprisonment.

Inharmonious; unmusical; discordant.

The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness.

Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change; unchangeable; unalterable.

Unchanged.

Change; alteration; mutation.

To change or alter.

To graft; to insert as a scion.

A pole for supporting a scaffold.

Not to be appeased or quieted.

The state of being closely surrounded, crowded, or pressed, as by ice.

Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated.

Driven together or close.

The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.

To paint; to adorn with colors.

Diminution; injury.

One who, or that which, impairs.

The state, act, or process of being impaired; injury.

An antelope (Aepyceros melampus) of Southeastern Africa, the male of which has ringed lyre-shaped horns, which curve first backward, then sideways, then upwards. ALso called impalla and pallah.

Unpalatable.

To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale.

The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled.

Same as Impala.

To make pallid; to blanch.