immanent 
ceived as in organic connection with the creation, and to 
such a creator himself, as opposed to a transient or tran- 
scendent creating and creator from whom the creation is 
conceived as separated. The doctrine of an immanent 
deity does not necessarily imply that the world, or the 
soul of the world, is God, but only that it either is or is in 
God. 
The workes of God, which are either inward and imma- 
nent, or outward and transient. 
Punhas, Pilgrimage, p. 5. 
Conceiving, as well as projecting or resolving, are what 
the schoolmen call immanent acts of the mind, which pro- 
duce nothing beyond themselves. But painting is a tran- 
sitive act, which produces an effect distinct from the op- 
eration, and this effect is the picture. 
Reid, Intellectual Powers, iv. 1. 
In the doctrine of the eternal Son revealing the Father, 
immanent in nature and humanity as the life and light 
shining through all created things, as the divine reason in 
which human reason shares, there was the recognition of 
. . . the tie which binds the creation to God in the closest 
organic relationship. 
A. Allen, Continuity of Christian Thought. 
Immanent act. see act. Immanent action. See ac- 
tion, and def . above. Immanent cause. See cause, 1, and 
efficient cause, under efficient. Immanent principle, in 
the Kantian philos. , a principle limited to the realm of ex- 
perience: opposed to transcendental principle. 
Immanes (i-ma'nez), n. pi. [NL., pi. of L. im- 
mam's, monstrous, enormous: see immane.] A 
superfamily group, by Newton made an order, 
of recently extinct gigantic ratite birds of New 
Zealand, containing the two families Dinorni- 
thidce and Palapterygidce. Dinornithes is a syn- 
onym. 
immanifest (i-mau'i-fest), a. [= OF. immani- 
feste = It. immanifesto, < LL. immanifestu-s, < L. 
in- priv. + manifestus, manifest.] Not mani- 
fest or apparent. [Rare.] 
A time not much unlike that which was before time, 
immanifest and unknown. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vi. 6. 
immanityt (i-man'i4i), n. [= P. immanitt = 
It. immanita, < L. immanita(t-)s, inmanita(t-)s, 
hugeness, vastness, cruelty, savageness, < im- 
maiiis, inmanis, huge, cruel, savage : see im- 
mane.] The condition of being immane; mon- 
strosity; savageness. 
No man can but marvel, saith Comineus, at that barba- 
rous immanity, feral madness, committed betwixt men of 
the same nation, language, and religion. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 39. 
They were so far from doing what Nestorius had sug- 
gested that they restrained him from his violence and im- 
manity. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 297. 
immantle (im-man'tl), v. t. ; pret. and pp. im- 
mantted, ppr. iminantling. [< in- 2 + mantle.] 
To envelop as with a mantle. [Poetical.] 
The dewy night had with her frosty shade 
Immantled all the world, and the stiff ground 
Sparkled in ice. 
O. Fletcher, Christ's Triumph over Death. 
O joy to him in this retreat, 
Immantled in ambrosial dark. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Ixxxix. 
Immanuel, Emmanuel (i-, e-man'u-el), n. 
[LL. Emmanuel, < Gr. 'Epuavovf/A, < Heb. 7m- 
manuel, lit. 'God with us,' < im, with, + anu, 
us, + el, God.] A name that was to be given 
to Jesus Christ (Mat. i. 23) as the son born of 
a virgin predicted in Isa. vii. 14. As a personal 
name, also written Emanuel. 
immarcesciblet (im-ar-ses'i-bl), a. [Improp. 
written immarcessible; = P. immarcescible, for- 
merly improp. immarcessible, = Sp. inmarcesiblc 
= Pg. immarcescivel = It. immarcescibile, < LL. 
immarcescibilis, inmarcescibilis, unfading, < L. 
i- priv. + marcescere, wither, fade : see mar- 
cescent.] Unfading. 
They should feed the flock of God, and the great Bishop 
and Shepherd should give them an immarcestrible crown. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 351. 
immarcesciblyt (im-ar-ses'i-bli), adv. Unfad- 
ingly. 
The honour that now I reach at is no less than a crown, 
and that not fading and corruptible, . . . but immarcessi- 
bly eternal, a crown of righteousness, a crown of glory 
Bp. Hall, Invisible World, iii. 12. 
immarginate (i-mar'ji-uat), a. [< L. in- priv. 
+NL.maiV7Mmto,marginate.] Having no mar- 
gin. Specifically (o) In lot., destitute of a rim or border. 
Gray. (6) In entom. , without a defined margin ; having no 
raised or thickened border ; without an impressed line 
parallel to the edge. 
immartial (i-mar'shal), a. [< L. in- priv. + 
martialis. warlike, martial: see martial.] Not 
martial; not warlike. [Bare.] 
Assay not me like one, 
Yong and immartiall, with great words, as to an Amazon 
dame. Chapman, Iliad, vii. 
immaskt (im-mask'), v. t. [< in- 2 + mask.] To character of being immaterial ';' immateriality, 
cover with or as with a mask; disguise. immateriatet (im-a-te'ri-at), a. [< in-S + m'a- 
Cases of buckram ... to immask our noted outward *""''"*" n XT ~ 1 - '---'- ' 
garments. Shale., 1 Hen. IV., i. 2. 
2990 
immatchablet (i-mach'a-bl), a. [< in- 3 + 
matehable.] Incapable of being matched; peer- 
less. 
Where learned More and Gardiner I met, 
Men in those times immatchaUe for wit. 
Drayton, Legend of T. Cromwell. 
immatchlesst (i-mach'les), a. [< in-3 (here in- 
tensive) + matchless.] Incomparable ; match- 
less. Vavies. 
Thou great Soveraigne of the earth, 
Onelie immatchlesse Monarchesse of hearts. 
G. Markham, Sir R. Grinuile (Ded. to the Fairest). 
immaterial (im-a-te'ri-al), a. and n. [= F. m- 
materiel = Sp. immaterial = Pg. immaterial = It. 
immaterial; as in-3 + material.] I. a. 1. Not 
consisting of matter; not material. 
Forms immaterial are produced by an efficient cause in 
the matter : but the matter itself does not contribute to- 
wards the action. All forms of natural things, the human 
soul excepted, are material, which only is immaterial. 
Burgergdicius, tr. by a Gentleman. 
Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
The most elementary study of sensation justifies Des- 
cartes' position, that we know more of mind than we do 
of body ; that the immaterial world is a firmer reality than 
the material. Huxley, Sensation and Sensiferous Organs. 
2. Without special significance or importance ; 
of no essential consequence; unimportant. 
It may seem immaterial whether we shall not recollect 
each other hereafter. Cowper. 
Specifically, in lam : (a) Not relevant ; having no bearing 
on the question : as, immaterial evidence, (o) Not abso- 
lutely essential to constitute the cause of action or de- 
fense : as, an immaterial averment (a statement of un- 
necessary particulars). Immaterial cognition. See 
cognition Immaterial form, in metaph. See form. 
= Syn. 2. Unessential, non-essential, insignificant. 
II. n. Something not material. 
As well might nothing bind immensity, 
Or passive matter immaterials see, 
As these should write by reason, rhyme, and rule. 
Or he turn wit whom nature doom'd a fool. 
W. Harte, Essay on Satire. 
Thus more perfect apprehenders misconceive immate- 
rials; our imaginations paint souls and angels in as dis- 
similar a resemblance. 
Glanville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, vii. 
immaterialise, v. t. See immaterialize. 
immaterialism (im-a-te'ri-al-izm), n. [= F. 
immatcrialisme = Sp. inmaterialismo = Pg. im- 
materialism o ; as immaterial + -ism.] 1. The 
doctrine that immaterial substances or spirit- 
ual beings exist or are possible. 2. The doc- 
trine that there is no material world, but that 
all things exist only in the mind ; idealism. 
Immaterialism is the doctrine of Bishop Berkeley, that 
there is no material substance, and that all being may be 
reduced to mind, and ideas in a mind. 
Fleming, Vocab. of Philosophy. 
immaterialist (im-a-te'ri-al-ist), . [= F. im- 
matcrialiste = Sp. inmaterialista = Pg. immate- 
rialista; as immaterial + -ist.] One who be- 
lieves in or professes immaterialism. 
Going to England very young, about thirteen years ago, 
he [Berkeley] became founder of a sect there called the 
immaterialists, by the force of a very curious book upon 
that subject. Swift, To Carteret, Sept. 3, 1724. 
immateriality (im-a-te-ri-al'i-ti), n. [= P. im- 
materiality = Sp. inmaterialidad = Pg. immate- 
rialidade = It. immaterialita ; as immaterial + 
-ity.] 1. The character or quality of being im- 
material or spiritual: as, the immateriality of 
the soul. 
There are exterminating angels, that fly wrapt up in the 
curtains of immateriality and an uncommunicating na- 
ture. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 81. 
2. An immaterial existence or essence ; that 
which is without matter. 
A school of French philosophers to-day . . . speak of 
man as the union of an organism with an immateriality. 
Pop. Sri. Mo., XXII. 148. 
3. The character of .being unimportant, non- 
essential, or irrelevant. 
immaterialize (im-a-te'ri-al-iz), v. t\; pret. and 
pp. immaterialized, ppr. immaterializing. [= F. 
immaterialiser = Sp. inmaterialisar; as immate- 
rial + -ize.] To make immaterial or incor- 
poreal; separate or free from matter. Also 
spelled immaterialise. 
For though possibly assiduity in the most fixed cogita- 
tion be no trouble or pain to immaterializ'd spirits, yet is 
it more then our embodyed souls can bear without lassi- 
tude or distemper. Glanville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, xii. 
immaterially (im-a-te'ri-al-i), adv. [< iiiniii/- 
terial + -lyZ.] 1. Not corporeally. 2. Unim- 
portantly ; not necessarily or essentially. 
immaterialness (im-a-te'ri-al-ues), n. The 
, . 
tcriate.] Not consisting of matter; incorpo- 
real; immaterial. 
immediacy 
And besides, I practise as I do advise : which is, after 
long inquiry of things immerse in matter, to interpose 
some subject which is immat,eriate, or less materiate. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., 115. 
immatter (i-mat'er), n. [< in- 3 + matter. 
Cf. immaterial.] That which is immaterial, or 
not matter. Ashburncr, Reichenbach's Dynam- 
ics (1851), p. 29, note. [Bare.] 
immature (im-a-tur'), a. [= OF. immature = 
Sp. inmaditro = Pg. immature = It. immature, 
< L. immaturus, inmaturus, unripe, < in- priv. + 
matiirus, ripe, mature: see mature.] 1. Not 
mature or ripe ; not complete in growth or de- 
velopment ; nence, unfinished ; not perfected : 
as, immature fruit; an immature youth; imma- 
ture plans or counsels. 
The earth was form'd, but in the womb as yet 
Of waters, embryon immature involved, 
Appear'd not. Milton, P. L., vii. 277. 
2f. Coming before the natural time; prema- 
ture ; too early. 
We are pleased, and call not that death immature, if a 
man lives till seventy. Jer. Taylor, Holy Living. 
The immature death of Mr. Robinson In Holland. 
C. Mather, Mag. Chris., i. 3. 
=Syn. 1. Raw, green, crude, unfinished, undigested. 
immatured (im-a-turd'), a. [< in-3 + matured.] 
Not matured; not ripened. 
immaturely (im-a-tur'li), adv. In an immature 
manner; unripely; prematurely; crudely. 
immatureness (im-a-tur'nes), n. Immaturity. 
immaturity (im-a-tu'ri-ti), . [= OF. imma- 
turity, F. immaturite = It. immaturitd, < L. 
immaturita(t-)s, inmaturita(t-)s, unripeness, < 
immaturus, inmaturus, unripe: see immature.] 
The state or character of being immature ; un- 
ripeness; incompleteness; crudeness. 
How far the validity of contracts may be affected by the 
contractor's immaturity of age, it belongs to human laws 
to determine. Beattie, Moral Science, iii. 1. 
Shelley appears always to have labored under an essen- 
tial immaturity ; it is very possible that if he had lived a 
hundred years he would never have become a man. 
S. Lanier, The English Novel, p. 99. 
immazet(im-maz'),v. t. [< in- 2 + maze.] To 
involve in a maze or labyrinth; entangle. 
The prementioned Planters, by Tolerating all Religions, 
had immazed themselves in the most intolerable confu- 
sions and inextricable thraldomes. 
N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 22. 
immeabilityt (im"e-a-biri-ti), . [< L. as if 
*immealtilita(t-)s, < ^immeabilis, < in- priv. + 
meabilis, passable, < meare, pass, go : see mea- 
tus.] Impassableness ; impermeability. 
Such a state of the fluids at last affects the tender capil- 
lary vessels of the brain, by the viscidity and immeabuity 
of the matter impacted in them. 
.Irbuthnot, Aliments, vt 29. 
immeasurability (i-mezh*ur-a-bil'i-ti), . [< 
immeasurable : see -bility.] Incapability of be- 
ing measured ; immeasurableness. 
immeasurable (i-mezh'ur-a-bl), a. [= F. im- 
mesurable = It. immisurabile ; as in- 3 + mea- 
surable; ult. identical with immensurable, q. v.] 
Incapable of being measured ; immense ; limit- 
less ; indefinitely extensive. 
Safe have you gain'd the peaceful port of ease, 
Not doom'd to plough th' immeasurable seas. 
Pitt, -Eneid, ill. 
Man's measures cannot mete the immeasurable All. 
M. Arnold, Empedocles on JEtnn. 
immeasurableness (i-mezh 'ur-a-bl-nes), . 
The state of being immeasurable or incapable 
of measurement; limitless extent. 
Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought 
alone. F. W. Robertson. 
immeasurably (i-mezh'ur-a-bli), adv. To an 
immeasurable extent or degree. 
Where wilds immeasurably spread 
Seem length'ning as I go. 
Goldsmith, The Hermit, at. 2. 
immeasuredt (i-mezh'urd), a. [< - 3 + mea- 
sured.] Unmeasured ; unlimited. 
They brought forth Geaunts, and such dreadful wights 
As far exceeded men in their immeasur'd mights. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. x. 8. 
A stream, that silently but swiftly glides 
To meet eternity's immeasured tides t 
Broome, Death. 
immechanicalt (im-e-kan'i-kal), a. [< in- 3 + 
mechanical.] Not mechanical; not consonant 
with the laws of mechanics. 
Nothing will clear a head possessed with immechanical 
notions. Mead. 
immechanicallyt (im-e-kan'i-kal-i), adv. Not 
mechanically, 
immediacy fi-me'di-6-si). n. [< immedia(te) 
+ -cy.] The character of beiug immediate. 
