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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.

immune system

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.

Immunity

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.

immunization

the act of making immune (especially by inoculation).

immunized

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

immunogen

any substance that produces immunity when introduced into the body.

immunoglobulin

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

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.

Immurement

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

Immusical

Inharmonious; unmusical; discordant.

Immutability

The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness.

Immutable

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

Imp

To graft; to insert as a scion.

Imp-pole

A pole for supporting a scaffold.

Impackment

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

Impact

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

Impaction

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.

Impaint

To paint; to adorn with colors.

Impairer

One who, or that which, impairs.

Impairment

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

impala

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.

Impale

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

Impalement

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

Impalm

To grasp with or hold in the hand.

Impalpable

Not palpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch.

Impalsy

To palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.

Impanate

To embody in bread, esp. in the bread of the eucharist.

Impanation

Embodiment in bread; the supposed real presence and union of Christ's material body and blood with the substance of the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; -- distinguished from transubstantiation, which supposes a miraculous change of the substance of the elements. It is akin to consubstantiation.

Impanator

One who holds the doctrine of impanation.

Impanel

To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice.

Impanelment

The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled.

Imparadise

To put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy.

Imparidigitate

Having an odd number of fingers or toes, either one, three, or five, as in the horse, tapir, rhinoceros, etc.

Imparisyllabic

Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.

Imparity

Inequality; disparity; disproportion; difference of degree, rank, excellence, number, etc.

Impark

To inclose for a park; to sever from a common; hence, to inclose or shut up.

Imparl

To hold discourse; to parley.

Imparsonee

Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession. A clergyman so inducted.

Impart

To give a part or share.

Impartation

The act of imparting, or the thing imparted.

Impartial

Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just.

Impartiality

The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as, impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc.

Impartibility

The quality of being incapable of division into parts; indivisibility.

Impartible

Not partible; not subject to partition; indivisible; as, an impartible estate.

Impartment

The act of imparting, or that which is imparted, communicated, or disclosed.

Impassable

Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf.

Impasse

An impassable road or way; a blind alley; cul-de-sac; fig., a position or predicament affording no escape.

Impassibility

The quality or condition of being impassible; insusceptibility of injury from external things.

Impassible

Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation.

Impassion

To move or affect strongly with passion.

Impassioned

Actuated or characterized by passion or zeal; showing warmth of feeling; ardent; animated; excited; as, an impassioned orator or discourse.

Impassive

Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved.

Impassivity

The quality of being insusceptible of feeling, pain, or suffering; impassiveness.

Impastation

The act of making into paste; that which is formed into a paste or mixture; specifically, a combination of different substances by means of cements.

Impaste

To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.

Impasto

The thickness of the layer or body of pigment applied by the painter to his canvas with especial reference to the juxtaposition of different colors and tints in forming a harmonious whole.

Impatible

Not capable of being borne; impassible.

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