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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.

Imprecation

The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse.

Imprecatory

Of the nature of, or containing, imprecation; invoking evil; as, the imprecatory psalms.

Impregn

To impregnate; to make fruitful.

Impregnability

The quality or state of being impregnable; invincibility.

Impregnable

Capable of being impregnated, as the egg of an animal, or the ovule of a plant.

Impregnant

Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile.

Impregnation

The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.

Impresa

A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate or the like.

Impresario

The projector, manager, or conductor, of an opera or concert company.

Imprescriptible

Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription; -- of rights.

Impress

The act of impressing or making.

impressed

having the conscious mind deeply or markedly affected or influenced; -- usually used with by or with.

Impressible

Capable of being impressed; susceptible; sensitive.

Impression

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

Impressionable

Liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded; susceptible; impressible; as, a bad influence on impressionable youths.

Impressionism

The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.

Impressionist

One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism in art; especially, a painter who paints in the impressionistic style; as, the skyrocketing prices of paintings by the French impressionists.

Impressionless

Having the quality of not being impressed or affected; not susceptible.

Impressive

Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.

Impressment

The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors.

Imprest

A kind of earnest money; loan; -- specifically, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment.

Imprimatur

A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published.

Imprimery

A print; impression. A printing establishment. The art of printing.

Imprimis

In the first place; first in order.

Imprint

Whatever is impressed or imprinted; the impress or mark left by something; specifically, the name of the printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet.

imprinting

The learning of a behavioral pattern that occurs soon after birth or hatching in certain animals, in which a long-lasting response to an individual (such as a parent) or an object is rapidly acquired; it is particularly noted in the response of certain birds to the animal they first see after hatching, usually the parent, as in ducks who will follow the adult duck they first see.

Imprison

To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.

Imprison ment

The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint.

Improbability

The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood; also, that which is improbable; an improbable event or result.

Improbable

Not probable; unlikely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event.

Improbity

Lack of probity; lack of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty.

Impromptu

Something made or done offhand, at the moment, or without previous study; an extemporaneous composition, address, or remark.

Improperation

The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt.

Improperia

A series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our Lord with his people; -- sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual.

Improperly

In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.

Impropriate

Put into the hands of a layman; impropriated.

Impropriation

The act of impropriating; as, the impropriation of property or tithes; also, that which is impropriated.

Impropriator

One who impropriates; specifically, a layman in possession of church property.

Impropriety

The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, impropriety of behavior or manners.

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