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IMMOBILITY, / [immobilite , Fr. from immobile, Lat.] 
Unmoveablenefs; want of motion; refiftance to motion.— 
The courfe of fluids through the vafcular folids mull in 
time harden the fibres, and abolilh many of the canals ; 
from whence drynefs, weaknefs, immobility, and debility of 
the vital force. Arbuthnol. 
IMMOD’ERATE, adj. [ immodere , Fr. immoderatus, Lat.] 
Exceflive; exceeding the due mean.—One means, very 
effectual for the prefervation of health, is a quiet and 
cheerful mind, not afflifted with violent paffions, or dil- 
trafted with immoderate cares. Ray. 
IMMOD'ERATELY, adv. In an exceflive degree.— 
The heat weakened more and more the arch of the earth,, 
fucking out the moifture that was the cement of its parts, 
drying it immoderately, and'chapping it. Burnet. 
IMMOD'ER ATENESS, f Excefs; the Rate or quality 
cf being immoderate. Scott. 
IMMODER A'TION, J. Want of moderation; excefs. 
IMMOD’EST, adj. Wanting fhame ; wanting delicacy 
or chaftity.—She railed at herfelf, that Ihe fnould be i'o im- 
modejl to write to one that fhe knew would flout her. SliakeJ- 
peare. —Unchafte ; impure; 
Immodejl deeds you hinder to be wrought ; 
But we profcribe the leaft immodejl thought. Dry den. 
Obfcene: 
’Tis needful that the moft immodej word 
Be look’d upon and learn’d ; which once attain’d. 
Comes to no farther ufe 
But to be known and hated. Shakcfpeare. 
Immodej words admit of no defence, 
For want of decency is want of fenfe. Rofcommon. 
Unreafonable; exorbitant; arrogant. 
IMMOD'ESTLY, adj. Without modefty ; impudent¬ 
ly ; obfcenely. 
IMMOD'ESTY, f. Want of modefty; indecency.—It 
was a piece of inimodejy. Pope. 
To IM'MOLATE, v. a. [immolo, Lat. immolcr, Fr.J To 
facrifice; to kill in facrifice.—Thefe courtiers of applaufe 
being oftentimes reduced to live in want, thefe coftiy tri¬ 
fles fo engrofling all that they can f’pare, that they fre¬ 
quently enough are forced to immolate their own defires 
to their vanity. Boyle. —To offer in facrifice : 
Now immolate the tongues, and mix the wine, 
Sacred to Neptune, and the pow’rs divine. Pope. 
IM'MOLATING, f. The aft of offering in facrifice, 
or of killing for facrifice. 
IMMOLATION, J. [ immolation , Fr. from immolate.'] 
The aft of facrificing.—In the picture of the immolation 
of Ifaac, or Abraham facrificing his fon, Ifaac is defcribed 
as a little boy. Brown.- —A facrifice offered.—We make 
more barbarous immolations than the moft favage heathens. 
Decay of Piety. 
IMMO'MENT, adj. [ in and moment.] Trifling ; of no 
Importance or value. A barbarous word: 
1 fome lady-trifles have referv’d, 
jmmoment toys, things of fuch dignity 
As we greet modern friends withal. Shakefpeare. 
IMMOR'AL, adj. Wanting regard to the laws of na¬ 
tural religion ; as, A flatterer of vice is an immoral man.—• 
Contrary to honefty ; difhoneft; as, Defertion of a calum¬ 
niated friend is an immoral aftion. 
IMMORAB'ITY,/. Difhonefty; want of virtue; con¬ 
trariety to virtue.—Such men are put into the commif- 
fion of the peace who encourage the groffeft immoralities , 
to whom all the bawds of the ward pay contribution. 
Swift. 
IMMORTALLY, adv. In a manner contrary to mo¬ 
rality ; difhoneftly ; wickedly. 
IMMORIG'EROUS, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, 
and tnorigems , obedient.] Difobedient. But little ufed. 
Scott. 
IMMORTAL, adj. Exempt from death; being never 
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to die.—-To the King eternal , immortal, invisible, the only 
wife God, be glory for ever, i Tim. i. 17, 
Her body fleeps in Capulet’s monument, 
And her immortal part with angels lives. Shakcfpeare , 
Never-ending ; perpetual; 
Give me my robe, put on my crown : I have 
Immortal longings in me. Shakefpeare. 
IMMORTAL FLOW'ER. See Gnaphalium. 
IMMORTALITY, f. Exemption from death : life 
never to end.—This corruptible fliall put on incorruption, 
and this mortal ^immortality. Corinth. 
He th’ immortality of fouls proclaim'd, 
Whom th’ oracle of men the v.’ifeft nam’d’. Denham. 
Exemption from oblivion. 
To IMMORTALIZE, v. a. To make immortal j t© 
perpetuate ; to exempt from death: 
For mortal things defire their like to breed. 
That fo they may their kind immortalize. Davies . 
To exempt from oblivion.—Drive them from Orleans 
and be immortaliz’’d. Shakefpeare. 
To IMMORTALIZE, v. n. To become immortal: 
Fix the year precife,. , 
When Britifh bards begin t’ immortalize. Pope. 
IMMORTALIZING, f. The aft of making immortal. 
IMMORTALLY, adv. With exemption from death ; 
without end.—What pity ’tis that he cannot wallow im¬ 
mortally in his fenlual plealures! Bentley. 
There is your crown ; 
And he that wears the crown immortally, 
Long guard it yours ! Shakcfpeare. 
IMMO'VEABLE, adj. Not to be forced from its places 
—We fliall not queltion his removing the earth, when he 
finds an immoveable bale to place his engine upon. Brown „ 
—-Not liable to be carried away; real in law.—When an 
executor meddles with the immoveable eftate, befcre he has 
feized on the moveable goods, it may be then appealed 
from the execution of fentence. Ayliffe. —Unlhaken ; un* 
affefted.—How much happier is he, who, centring on 
himfelf, remains immoveable, and fmiles at the madnefs of 
the dance about him ! Dryden. 
IMMO'VEABLENESS, f. The fta-te or quality of be¬ 
ing immoveable. 
IMMO'VEABLY, adv. In a ftate not to be ihaken.™ 
Immoveably firm to their duty, when they could have no 
profpeft of reward. Alterbury. 
IMMU'NITY, f. [immunite, Fr. immunitas, Lat.] Dif- 
charge from any obligation.—Of things harmlefs whatfo-*- 
ever there is, which the whole church cloth obferve, to 
argue for any man’s immunity from obferving the lame, it 
were a point of moft infolent madnefs. Hooker. —Privilege; 
exemption from onerous duties.—Granting great immu¬ 
nities to the commons, they prevailed fo far as to caufe 
Palladius to be proclaimed fuccelfor. Sidney. —Freedom. 
—Common apprehenfions entertain the antidotal condi¬ 
tion of Ireland, conceiving only in that land an immunity 
from venomous creatures. Brown. 
But this annex’d condition of the crown. 
Immunity from errors, you dilown. Dryden. 
To IMMU'RE, v. a. [in and mums, Lat. emurer, old 
French.] To inclofe within walls; to confine; to Ihut 
lip; to imprifon.—At the firft defeent on ihore he was 
not immured with a wooden veffel, but he did countenance 
the landing in his long-boat. Wotton. 
Though a foul foolilh prifon her immure 
On earth, Ihe, when efcap’d, is wife and pure. Denham „ 
IMMU'RE, f. A wall ; an inclofure ; 
Their vow is_made 
To ranfack Troy ; within whole ftrong immures 
The ravilh’d Helen, Menelaus’ queen, 
With wanton Paris fleeps. Shakcfpeare „• 
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