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

Imposition.

One who imposes.

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

In an imposing manner.

The quality of being imposing.

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

The quality of being impossible; impracticability.

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

incapability of existing or occurring; impossibility.

Not possibly.

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.

Imposthumated.

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

Same as Imposthumate.

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

The condition, character, or practice of an impostor.

A woman who imposes upon or deceives others.

Characterized by imposture; deceitful.

Imposture; cheating.

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

Done by imposture.

Impostrous; deceitful.

Imposture.

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

One who is impotent.

In an impotent manner.

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.

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

One who impounds.

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

One who, or that which, impoverishes.

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

See Empower.

The state or quality of being impracticable; infeasibility.

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

The state or quality of being impracticable; impracticability.

In an impracticable manner.

Not practical.

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

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

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

Lack of precision.

To impregnate; to make fruitful.

The quality or state of being impregnable; invincibility.

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

Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile.

Impregnated; made prolific.

same as fertilized, 1.

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

Not prejudged; unprejudiced; impartial.

Impregnable.

Lack of preparation.

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

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

The quality of being imprescriptible.

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

In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.

A device. See Impresa.

The act of impressing or making.

The quality of being impressible; susceptibility.

Capable of being impressed; susceptible; sensitive.

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.

The quality of being impressionable.

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

The quality of being impressionable.

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.

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.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism.

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

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.

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

One who, or that which, impresses.

Dent; impression.

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

A sum of money to be used as petty cash.

Lack of prevalence.

The state or quality of being impreventable; inevitability.

Not preventable; inevitable.

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.

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

A beginning.

In the first place; first in order.

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.

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.

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

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

One who imprisons.

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

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.

To disapprove of; to disallow.

The act of disapproving; disapprobation.

Implying, or tending to, improbation.

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

Lack of proficiency.

Unprofitable.

Not progressive.

Not prolific.

To impregnate.

Not ready.

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

To appropriate; to limit.

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

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.

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

Impropriety.

Unpropitious; unfavorable.

Not proportionable.

Not proportionate.

Put into the hands of a layman; impropriated.

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

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

A female impropriator.

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

Lack of prosperity.

Not prosperous.

The state or quality of being improvable; improvableness.

Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities.

To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.

advanced to a more desirable or valuable or excellent state. Opposite of unimproved.