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it will have a fairer paflage than among thofe that are 
deeply imbued with other principles. Digby. 
To IMBUR'SE, v. a. [bourfe , Fr.] To Itock with money. 
IMBUR'SEMENT, f Money laid out; money laid up 
in (lock. 
IMGNA'EL, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of 
Drontheim : fifty-fix miles north-north-eaft of Romfdael. 
IM'HOFF (John-William), an eminent genealogift, 
was a German of a noble family, who devoted himfelf to 
the ftudy of hiitory, politics, and particularly the defcents 
and alliances of all the great houfes in Europe. He died 
in 172S, having left many voluminous monuments of his 
labour. Thefe are, 1. De Notitia Procerum Germania;, 
2 vols. folio. 2. Hiftoria Genealogica Italise & Hifpanias, 
folio. 3. Familiarum Italite, Hifpanias, Portugallias, 
Magnte Britannias/cum Appendice; each a volume folio. 
4. Recherches fur les Grands d’Efpagne, 8vo. 
IMIRET'TA, a country of Afia, bounded on the north 
by Circaffia, on the eaft by Perfia, on the fouth by Geor¬ 
gia, and on the weft by Mingrelia, about eighty miles 
from north to fouth, and nearly as much from eaft to weft; 
the country is poor and mountainous. The inhabitants 
are in general wanderers and vagabonds ; it could for¬ 
merly fupply an army of 20,000 men, chiefly foot; at pre- 
fent it is but thinly peopled, partly on account of the 
great number of children purchafed by the Turks, and an 
impofition on them to furnifh annually fourfcore young 
men between ten and twenty years of age. The real ti¬ 
tle of the prince is tneppe though he arrogates to him¬ 
felf that of king of kings. There are but few towns; 
Kutatis feems the principal. 
IMITABIL'ITY, / [ imitabilis , Lat.] The quality of 
being imitable.—According to the multifarioufnefs of this 
imitability, fo are the poflibilities of being. Norris. 
IM'ITABLE, adj. Worthy to be imitated ; defervi-ng 
to be copied.—How could the raoft bafe men, and fepa- 
rate from all imitable qualities, attain to honour but by an 
obfervant llavifh courfe ? Raleigh. —Poflible to be imitated ; 
within reach of imitation.—The characters of men placed 
in lower ftations of life are more ufeful, as being iniita- 
ble by greater numbers. Atterbury. 
IM'ITABLENESS, f. The fiate or quality of being 
imitable. 
IM'ITARY, adj. Belonging to imitation. Shakefpeare. 
To IM'ITATE, v.a. [ imitor , Lat. imiter, Fr.] To co¬ 
py ; to endeavour to refemble.—We imitate and praftife 
to make fwifter motions than any out of your mufkets. 
Bacon. 
I would carefs Tome ftable-man of note, 
And imitate his language and his coat. Man o/TaJle. 
To counterfeit: 
This hand appear’d a ftiining fword to wield. 
And that fuitain’d an imitated Ihield. Dry den. 
To purfue the courfe of a compofition, fo as to ufe pa¬ 
rallel images and examples.—For Ihame ! what imitate an 
ode! Gay. 
IM'ITATING,/] The aft or art of copying. 
IMITA'TION, f. [imitatio, Lat. imitation, Fr.] The aft 
of copying; attempt to refemble; that which is of¬ 
fered as a copy.—Since a true knowledge of nature gives 
us pleafure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or 
painting, mult produce a much greater ; for both thefe 
arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the belt 
nature. Dryden. —A method of tranflating loofer than pa- 
raphrafe, in which modern examples and illuftrations are 
ufed for ancient, or domeftic for foreign.—In the way of 
imitation, the tranflator not only varies from the words 
and fenfe, but forfakes them as he fees occafion ; and, 
taking only fome general hints from the original, runs 
divifions on the ground-work. Dryden. 
IM'ITATIVE, adj. Inclined to copy; as, Man is an, 
imitative being.—Aiming at refemblance ; as, Painting is 
an imitative art.—Formed after fome original; 
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This temple, lefs in form, with equal grace, 
Was imitative of the firft in Thrace. Dryden. 
IM'ITATOR,/. One that copies another; one that 
endeavours to'refemble another.— Imitators are but a fer- 
vile kind of cattle, fays the poet. Dryden. 
IM'ITATRIX, f. A woman that imitates; a female 
copyift. 
IMITAZZIO'NE,y. In mufic, that kind of compofi¬ 
tion in which one part is made to imitate the other. 
IMIZFMIS, a town of Africa, in the empire of Mo¬ 
rocco, on the Atlas mountains : fixty miles fouth-weft of 
Morocco. 
IM'LAH, [Gr. plenitude.] A man’s name. 
IM'LIAT, a river of Ruftia, which runs into the Mi- 
jas eight miles fouth-weft of Iraliatfkaia. 
IMLIATSKA'IA, a town of Ruftia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Upha, on the river Imliat: fixty miles eaft-north- 
eaft of Tcheliabinlk. 
IM'LING, a town of German}', in the archduchy of 
Auftria : five miles north-weft of Schwannaffatt. 
IMMAC'ULATE, adj. [ immaculatus , Lat. immacule, 
Fr.] Spotlefs ; pure ; undefiled.—The king, whom catho¬ 
lics count a faint-like and immaculate prince, was taken 
away in the flower of his age. Bacon. 
Were but my foul as pure 
From other guilts as that, Heav’n did not hold 
One more immaculate. Denham, 
Pure; limpid: 
Thou clear, immaculate, and filver, fountain, 
From whence this ftream, through muddy paflages. 
Hath had his current, and defil’d himfelf. Shakefpeare. 
IMMAC'ULATENESS, f. The ftate of being imma¬ 
culate; purity. Scott. 
IM'MAH, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
To IMMAN'ACLE, v. a. To fetter; to confine 5 
Thou can’ll not touch the freedom of my mind 
With all thy charms, although this corporal rind 
Thou haft immanacled. Milton. 
IMMA'NE, adj. [immanis , Lat.] Vaft; prodigioufly 
great. 
IM'MANENT, adj. [ immanent, Fr. from in and maneo , 
Lat.] Intrinsic; inherent; internal.—Judging the infi¬ 
nite eflence by our narrow felves, we afcribe intellections, 
voiitions, and fuch-like immanent, aftions, to that nature 
which hath nothing in common with us. Glanville. 
IMMAN'IFEST) adj. Not manifeft: not plain. Not 
in ufe. —A time not much unlike that which was before 
time, immanifejl and unknown. Brown. 
I MM ANTE Y; f. \_immanitas, Lat. ] Barbarity; favage- 
nefs: 
It was both impious and unnatural. 
That fucli humanity and bloody ftrife 
Should reign among profelfors of one faith. Shakefpeare. 
IMMAN'SUETE, adj. [from the Lat. in, contrary to, 
and manjuetus, traftable.] Wild ; untraftable. Not muck 
ufed. Cole. 
IMMAN'UEL, [Heb. God with us.] The name given 
to Chrift ; the Son of God incarnate. 
IMMARCES'SIBLE, adj. [fn and marcefco, Lat.] Un¬ 
fading. 
IMMAR'TIAL, adj. Not warlike: 
My pow’rs are unfit, 
Myfelf immartial. Chapman. 
To IMMA'SK, v.a. To cover; to difguife.—I have 
cafes of buckram for the nonce, to imrnajk our noted out¬ 
ward garments. Shakefpeare. 
IMMATE'RIAL, adj. [ immateriel , Fr. in and materia, 
Lat.] Incorporeal; diftinft from matter; void of matter. 
—Angels are fpirits immaterial and intellectual, the glori¬ 
ous inhabitants of thofe facred palaces, where there 
is nothing but light and immortality; no ftiadow of mat¬ 
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