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ter for tears, difcontentments, griefs, and uncomfortable 
pafiions, to workupon; bat all joy, tranquillity, and peace, 
even for ever and ever. Hooker. 
As then the foul a fubftance hath alone^ 
Belides the body, in which the is confin’d ; 
So hath tlie not a body of her own, 
But is a fpirit, and immaterial mind. Davies. 
Unimportant; without weight; impertinent; without re¬ 
lation. This fenfe has crept into the converfation and 
writings of barbarians ; but ought to be utterly rejefted. 
IMMATERIALITY, f. 1 ncorporeity ; diftinftnefs 
from body or matter.—When we know cogitation is the 
prime attribute of a fpirit, we infer its immateriality, and 
thence its immortality. Watts. 
To IMMATE'RIALIZE, tn a. To make void of mat¬ 
ter; to make incorporeal. 
IMMATE'RIALfZED, adj. Diftindt from matter; in¬ 
corporeal.—Though alfiduity in the molt fixed cogitation 
be no trouble to immaterialized fpirits, yet is it more than 
our embodied fouls can bear without laflitude. Glanville. 
IMMATERIALLY, adv. In a manner not depend¬ 
ing upon matter.—The vifible fpecies of things ftrike not 
our fenfes immaterially ; but, ftreaming in corporal rays, do 
carry with them the qualities of the objeft from whence 
they flow, and the medium through which they pafs. 
Brown. 
IMMATE'RIALNESS, f. Diftinftnefs from matter. 
IMMATE'RIATE, adj. Not confining of matter; in¬ 
corporeal ; wanting body.—It is a virtue which may be 
called incorporeal and immatcriate, whereof there be in na¬ 
ture but few. Bacon. 
IMMATU'RE, adj. \_immaturus, Lat.] Not ripe. Not 
perfeft; not arrived at fulnefs or completion.—The Iand- 
enterprife of Panama was an ill-meafured and' immature 
counfel, grounded upon a falfe account, that the paflages 
were no better fortified than Drake had left them. Bacon. 
This is your time for faflion and debate, 
For partial favour, and permitted hate: 
Let now your immature diffenfion ceafe. 
Sit quiet. Dryden. 
Hally ; early; come to pafs before the natural time.—We 
are pleafed, and call not that death immature , if a man lives 
till feventy. Taylor. 
IMMATU'RELY, adv. Toofoon; too early; before 
ripenefs or completion. 
IMMATU'RENESS, or Immaturity,/! Unripenefs; 
incompletenefs; a Hate fiiort of completion.—-I might rea- 
lonably expeft a pardon from the ingenuous for faults 
committed in an immaturity of age and judgment. Glanville. 
IMMATURITY, f. Unripenefs; a Hate lhort of com¬ 
pletion. 
IMMEABIL'ITY, f. [ immeabilis , Lat.] Want of power 
to pafs. So it is ufed in the example; but it is rather, 
incapability of affording paifage.-—From this phlegm pro¬ 
ceed white cold tumours, vilcidity, and conlequently im- 
mcahility of the juices. Arbiithnot. 
IMMEASURABLE, adj. Immenfe; not to be mea- 
fured ; indefinitely extenfive.—Churches reared up to an 
height immcajurable, and adorned with far more beauty in 
their reftoration than their founders before had given 
them. Hooker. 
From the thore 
They view’d the vail immeajurable abyfs, 
Outrageous as a fea, dark, walteful, wild. Milton. 
IMMEAS'URABLY, adv. Immenfely ; beyond all 
meafure.—The Spaniards immeafurably bewail their dead. 
SpenJ'er. 
There ye fliall be fed, and fill’d 
Immeafurably all things fliall be your prey, Milton. 
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IMMEAS'URED, adj-. Out of meafure : 
Bright fcolopendraes arm’d with filver feales. 
Mighty monoceros with immeajured tayles. Spenfer. 
IMMECHAN'ICAL, adj. Not according to the laws 
of mechanics.-—We have nothing to do to Jhow any thing 
that is immechanical, or not according to the eitablifiled 
law’s of nature. Chcyne .—Nothing will clear a head pof- 
fefled of immechanical notions. Mead. 
IMMEDIACY, J. [ from immediate. ] Perfonal great- 
nefs; power of aftihg without dependancer 
He led our pow’rs, 
Bore the commifiion of my place and perfoli, 
I he which immediacy may well Itand up. 
And call itfelf your brother. Shakefpeare. 
IMMEDIATE, adj. [ immediat , Fr. from in and me- 
dius, Lat.] Being in fuch a ftate with refpecl to fome- 
thing elfe as that there is nothing between them ; proxi¬ 
mate ; with nothing intervening.—Moles mentions the 
immediate caufes of the deluge, the rains and the waters; 
and St. Peter mentions the more remote and fundamental 
caufes, that conftitution of the heavens. Burnet. —Not 
a (fling by fecond caufes.—It is much to be aferibed to 
the immediate will of God, who giveth and taketh away 
beauty at his pleafure. Abbot. —Inftant; prefent with re¬ 
gard to time. Prior therefore lliould not have written 
more immediate : 
Immediate are my needs, and my relief, 
Mull not be toll and turn’d to me in words. 
But find fupply immediate. Shakefpeare. 
IMMEDIATELY, adv. Without the intervention of 
any other caufe or event.—God’s acceptance of it, either 
immediately by himfelf, or mediately by the hands of the 
bifiiop, is that which vefts the whole property of a thing 
in God. South. —Inllantly; at the time prefent; without 
delay : 
Her father hath commanded her to flip 
Away with Slender, and with him at Eaton 
Immediately to many. Shakefpeare. 
IMMEDIATENESS, f. Prefence with regard to time; 
exemption from fecond or intervening caufes. 
IMMEDICABLE, adj. [immedicabilis, Lat.] Not to be 
healed; incurable: 
My griefs ferment and rage, 
Nor lefs than wounds immedicable 
Rankle and feller, and gangrene 
To black mortification. Milton. 
IMMEM'ORABLE, adj. [ immcmorabilis, Lat.] Not 
worth remembering. 
IMMEMORIAL, adj. [ immemorial, Fr. from in and 
memoria, Lat.] Palt time of memory ; fo ancient that the 
beginning cannot be traced.-—All the laws of this king¬ 
dom have fome memorials in writing, yet all have not 
their original in writing; for fome obtained their force 
by immemorial ufage or cultorn. Hale .—By a long immemo¬ 
rial practice, and prelcription of an aged thorough-paced 
hypocrify, they come to believe that for a reality, which, 
at firfl praftice of it, they themfelves knew to be a cheat. 
South. 
IMMEMORIALNESS, f. The ftate of being imme¬ 
morial. Scott. 
IM'MENDORF, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Auftria : eight miles north of Sonneberg. 
IM'MENHAUSEN, a town of Germany, on the Up¬ 
per Rhine, and principality of Hefle Caflel: eight miles 
north-north-weft of Calfel, and fixteen north-ealt of Naum- 
burg. Lat. 5. 15. N. Ion. 26. 52. E. Ferro. 
IMMEN'SE, adj. [ immenfe , Fr. immenfus, Lat.] Unli¬ 
mited ; unbounded ; infinite.—As infinite duration hath 
no relation unto motion and time, fo infinite or immenfe 
ilfeiic.e hath no relation unto body j but is a thing dif- 
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