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.

To grasp with or hold in the hand.

The quality of being impalpable.

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

In an impalpable manner.

To palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.

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

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.

One who holds the doctrine of impanation.

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.

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

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

Unparalleled.

Unpardonable.

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

Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.

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.

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

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

To hold discourse; to parley.

Mutual discourse; conference.

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

To give a part or share.

Impartation.

The act of imparting, or the thing imparted.

One who imparts.

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

One who is impartial.

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

In an impartial manner.

Impartiality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Impassibility.

To move or affect strongly with passion.

Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.

Without passion or feeling.

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

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

an absence of emotion.

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

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.

To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.

To place in a pasture; to foster.

Not capable of being borne; impassible.

The quality of being impatient; lack of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.

Impatience.

A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. Impatiens Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.

One who is impatient.

In an impatient manner.

Absolute seignory or possession; the act of investing with such possession.

To make lord or master; as, to impatronize one's self of a seigniory.

To pave.

Fearless.

To put in pawn; to pledge; to pawn.

Hindrance; impeachment.

That may be impeached; liable to impeachment; chargeable with a crime.

One who impeaches.

The act of impeaching, or the state of being impeached Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.

To form into pearls, or into that which resembles pearls.

The quality of being impeccable; exemption from sin, error, or offense.

Not liable to sin; exempt from the possibility of doing wrong. One who is impeccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness.

Sinlessness.

Sinless; impeccable.

The state of being impecunious.

Not having money; habitually without money; poor.

The apparent resistance in an electric circuit to the flow of an alternating current, analogous to the actual electrical resistance to a direct current, being the ratio of electromotive force to the current. It is equal to R2 + X2, where R = ohmic resistance, X = reactance. For an inductive circuit, X = 2/fL, where f = frequency and L = self-inductance; for a circuit with capacity X = 1 / 2/fC, where C = capacity.

To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops.

Capable of being impeded or hindered.

To impede.

Things which impede or hinder progress; incumbrances; baggage; the supply trains which must accompany an army.

Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive.

To impede.

A hindering; a hindrance.

Causing hindrance; impeding.

To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way.

motivated by an irresistable compulsion.

An impelling power or force.

One who, or that which, impels.

To shut up or inclose, as in a pen.

To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten from near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See Imminent.

The state of impending; the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon; also, that which impends.

Impending; threatening.

Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening.

Quality of being impenetrable.

Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield.

The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.

In an impenetrable manner or state; imperviously.

The condition of being impenitent; failure or refusal to repent; hardness of heart.

Impenitence.

One who is not penitent.

Without repentance.

Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins. One of the Impennes.

An order of birds, including only the penguins, in which the wings are without quills, and not suited for flight.

Having no wings, as some insects.

To people; to give a population to.

Commanding.

Done by express direction; not involuntary; commanded.

Of or pertaining to the imperative mood.

The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.

In an imperative manner.

A commander; a leader; an emperor; -- originally an appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general after an important victory. Subsequently the title was conferred as a recognition of great military achievements by the senate, whence it carried with it some special privileges. After the downfall of the Republic it was assumed by Augustus and his successors, and came to have the meaning now attached to the word emperor.

Commanding; imperative; authoritative.