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tinft from all corporeal magnitude, which we mean when 
we fpeak of immenfity, and of God as of an ifhmcnfe be¬ 
ing. Grew. 
O goodnefs infinite! goodnefs immenfe! 
That all this good of evil fhall produce ! 
IMMENSELY, adv. Infinitely; without meafure.— 
TVe fliall find that the void fpace of our fyftern is itmnenfly 
bigger than all its corporeal mafs. Bentley. 
IMMEN'SENESS, f. Immenfity. 
IMMENSITY, / Unbounded greatnefs; infinity.— , 
He that will confider the immenfity of this fabric, and. the- 
great variety that is to be found in this inconfiderable • 
part of it which he has to do with, may think that in 
other manfions of it there may be other and different in¬ 
telligent beings. Locke. 
All thefe illuftrious worlds, 
And millions which the glafs can ne’er defcry, 
Loft in the wilds of vaft immenfity, 
Are funs, are centres. Blackmore. 
IM'MENSTADT, a town of Germany, in Swabia, and 
■county of Konigfegg, on a fmall river, which foon after 
joins the Iller: twelve miles fouth of Kempten, and four¬ 
teen fouth-eaft of Ifny. 
IMMENSURAB'ILTTY, /. Impoffibility to be mea¬ 
sured. 
IMMEN'SURABLE, adj. Not to be meafured. 
IM'MER, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
IM'MER, the moft eafterly ifland of all the New He¬ 
brides in the South Sea. It lies about four leagues from 
Tanna, and feems to be about five leagues in circumfer¬ 
ence : it is of a confiderable height, with a fiat-top. 
IM'MER I'SLAND, one of the New Hebrides, in the 
South Pacific Ocean. Lat..19. 16. N. Ion. 169. 46;E. 
Greenwich. 
To IMMER'GE, v. a. [immergo,- Lat.] To piit under 
svater. 
IMMER'GING, f. The aft of putting under water. 
IMMER'IT, f. [immerito, Lat.]- Want of worth; want 
of defert. Demerit is nowmollly ufed in its ftead.—When 
I receive, your lines, and find there exprefiions of a paf- 
fion, u-eafon and my own immerit tell me it mutt not be 
for me. Suckling. 
To .IMMERSE, v. a. [mmfifas , Lat..] fo put under 
water; to fink or cover deep.—They obferved that they 
were ijnmerfed in their rocks, quarries, and mines, in the 
fame manner, as they are at this day found in all known 
parts of the world. Woodward. 
He flood 
More than a mile immers’d within the wood ; 
At once the wind was laid. Drydcti. 
To keep in a ftate of intellectual deprefilon.—It is impof- 
fible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be 
deeply immerfed in the enjoyments of this. Atterbury. 
IMMER'SE, adj. Buried; covered; funk deep. — Af¬ 
ter long inquiry of things immerfe in matter, I interpofe 
dome objeft which is immateriate, or lelV materiate ; fiuch 
as this of founds, that the intelleft may become not par¬ 
tial. Bacon. 
IMMER'SING, f. The aft of putting under water. 
IMMER'SION, /. The aft of putting any body into a 
fluid below the furface.—Achilles’ mother is faid to have 
dipped him, When he was a child, in the river Styx, w'hich 
made him invulnerable all over, excepting that part which 
the mother held in her hand during this immerfon. Addi- 
fon. —The ftate of finking below the furface of a fluid ; 
the ftate of being overwhelmed or loft in any refpeft.— 
Many perfons, who, through the heat of their lulls and 
paflions, through the contagion of ill example, or too deep 
an immerfon in the affairs of life, fwerve from the rules of 
their holy faith; yet would, upon extraordinary warning, 
be brought to comply with them. Atterbury. 
Immersion, in autonomy, is when a ftar or planet 
comes fo near the fun, that it cannot be Teen j being as 
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it were enveloped and hid in the rays of that luminary. 
Immerfon alfo denotes the beginning of an eclipfe, or of 
an bftrultaf jbn, when the body, or any part of it, juft be¬ 
gins to difappear, either behind the edge of another body, 
or in its-lhad'o\v.- As; in an eclipfe of the moon, vvheh 
the begins to be darkened by entering into the fhaddw of 
the earth ; or the beginning of an eclipfe of the fun, when 
the moon’s difc juft begins to cover him ; or the begin¬ 
ning of the eclipfes of any of the latellites, as thofe oHu- 
pjter, by entering into his ihadow ; or, laftly, the begin¬ 
ning of an occultation of any ftar or planet, by palling 
behind the body of the moon or another planet. In afl 
thefe cafes, the darkened body is faid to immerge, or to 
be immerged, or begin to.be hid, by dipping as it were 
into the fnade. In like manner, when the darkened body 
begins to appear Sgain, it is faid to emerge, or come out 
of darknefs again. See the article Astronomy, vol. ii. 
p. 396. 
IMMETHOD'IC AL, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, 
and mctliodus, a method.] Confufcd ; without regularity ; 
without method.—M. Bayle compares, the anfwermg 7 of an 
immethodical author to the hunting'Of a duck : when you 
have him full in your fight, he gives you the flip, and be- 
comes invifible. Addifon. 
IMMETHOD'ICALLY, adv. Without method ; with¬ 
out order. 
IMMETHOD'IC ALNESS, / Want of method; the 
ftate or quality of being immethodical. 
To IMMI'GRATE, v.a. [from in, Lat. into, and migro, 
to wander. ] To pafs into ; to come into. Scott. 
IMMIGRATING,/ The aft of palling into. 
IMMINENCE, / Any ill depending ; immediate cr 
near danger. Not in ufe ; 
I do not fpeak of flight, of fear, of death ; 
But dare all imminence, that gods and men 
Addrefs their dangers in. Shakefpeare. 
IMMINENT, adj. [Fr. from imminens, Lat.] Impend¬ 
ing; at hand; threatening. Always in an illfenfe .— What 
dangers at any time are imminent, what evils hang over our 
heads, God doth know, and not we. Hooker. 
Thefe ftie applies for warnings and portents 
Of evils imminent-, and on her knee 
Hath begg’d, that I will ftay at home to-day. Shakefpeare. 
IMMINENTNESS,/ The ftate of being imminent. 
Scott. 
To IMMIN'GLE, v.a. To mingle; to mix; to unite; 
Some of us, like thee, through ftormy life 
Toil’d tempeft-beaten, ere we could attain 
This holy calm, this harmony of mind. 
Where purity and peace immingle charms. Thomfon. 
IMMINU'TION,/ [from imminuo, Lat.] Diminution; 
decreafe.—Thefe revolutions areas exaftly uniform as the 
earth’s are, which could not be, were there any place for 
chance, and did not a Providence continually overfee and 
fecure them from all alteration or imminution. Ray. 
IMMISCIBIL'ITY, / Incapacity of being mingled. 
IMMIS'CIBLE, adj. Not capable of being mingled. 
Clari fa. 
IMMIS'ERABLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and 
miferabilis, pitiable.] Void of pity; unworthy to be pitied. 
Not ufed. Bailey. 
IMMIS'SION,/ [ imm\fo, Lat.] The aft of fending 
In .; contrary to emiflion. 
To IMMIT', v. n. [ immitto, Lat.] To fend in. 
IMMI'TIGABLE, adj. Not to be mitigated.—Did fhe 
mitigate thefe immitigable, thefe iron-hearted, men ? Harris. 
IMMIT'TING, f. The aft of fending in. 
To IMMIX', v. a. To mingle : 
Samfon, with thefe immixt, inevitably 
Pull’d down the fame deftruftion on himfelf. Milton. 
IMMIX'ABLE, adj. Impoflible to be mingled.—Fill . 
a glafs fphere with fuch liquors as may be clear,, of the 
fame colour, and mw.xable. Wilkins. 
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