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.
Lack of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency.
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.
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.