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Implemental

Pertaining to, or characterized by, implements or their use; mechanical.

Impletion

The act of filling, or the state of being full.

Implex

Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex.

Implexion

Act of involving, or state of being involved; involution.

Impliable

Not pliable; inflexible; unyielding.

Implicate

To infold; to fold together; to interweave.

implicated

culpably involved; connected; -- of persons with respect to responsibility for events.

implicating

a charge that implicates someone (usually of wrongdoing).

Implication

The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.

Implicit

Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved.

Implicitly

In an implicit manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence.

Implied

Virtually involved or included; involved in substance; inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or expressed. See Imply.

implode

To burst inward; contrasting with explode.

Imploring

That implores; beseeching; entreating.

Implosion

A bursting inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.

Implosive

Formed by implosion. An implosive sound, an implodent.

Implumed

Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless.

Impluvium

In Roman dwellings, a cistern or tank, set in the atrium or peristyle to recieve the water from the roof, by means of the compluvium; generally made ornamental with flowers and works of art around its birm.

Imply

To infold or involve; to wrap up.

Impoison

To poison; to imbitter; to impair.

Impolicy

The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud.

Impolite

Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude.

Impolitic

Not politic; contrary to, or wanting in, policy; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; inexpedient; as, an impolitic ruler, law, or measure.

Imponderability

The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness.

Imponderable

An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile fluids destitute of weight but in modern science little used.

Impone

To stake; to wager; to pledge.

Imporosity

The state or quality of being imporous; lack of porosity; compactness.

Imporous

Destitute of pores; very close or compact in texture; solid.

Import

Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; -- generally in the plural, opposed to exports.

Importable

Not to be endured; insupportable; intolerable.

Importance

The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance.

Importancy

Importance; significance; consequence; that which is important.

Important

Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

important-looking

appearing to be important; as, an important-looking sealed document.

Importation

The act of carrying, conveying, or delivering.

imported

brought into the country from a foreign source; -- used of especially merchandise; -- correlative of exported.

Importer

One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter.

Importunacy

The quality of being importunate; importunateness.

Importunate

Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an importunate petitioner, curiosity.

Importunity

The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity.

Imposable

Capable of being imposed or laid on.

imposed

p. p. of impose; as, rules imposed by society.

Imposing

The act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a sheet. See Impose, v. t., 4.

Imposition

The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

Impossible

An impossibility; as, he tried to do the impossible.

Impost

That which is imposed or levied; a tax, tribute, or duty; especially, a duty or tax laid by goverment on goods imported into a country.

Imposthumation

The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration.

Impostor

One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender.

Impostorship

The condition, character, or practice of an impostor.

Imposture

The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.

Impotency Impotence

The quality or condition of being impotent; lack of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility.

Impound

To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of some authority such as police or a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound an illegally parked car; to impound a document for safe keeping.

Impoundage

The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded.

Impoverish

To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

Impoverishment

The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.

Impracticable

Not practicable; incapable of being performed, or accomplished by the means employed, or at command; impossible; as, an impracticable undertaking.

Imprecate

To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.

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