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IMMU'RING, /. The aft of inclofing with or within 
walls. 
IMMU'SICAL, adj. Inharmonious; wanting propor¬ 
tion of found.—All founds are either nm.fical, which are 
ever equal, or immujical, which are ever unequal, as the 
voice in fpeaking, and whifperings. Bacon. 
IMMUTABILITY, f. [ immuiabihtas , Lat .immutabi¬ 
lity, Fr. from immutable Exemption from change ; inva- 
riablenefs j unchangeablenefs.—The immutability of God 
they ftrive unto, by working after one and the fame man¬ 
ner. Hooker. 
IMMUTABLE, adj. Unchangeable ; invariable ; un¬ 
alterable.—By two immutable things, in which it was im- 
poflible for God to lie, we havea ftrong confolation. Heb. vi. 
Thy threat’nings, Lord, as thine, thou may’ll revoke; 
But, if immutable and fix’d they Hand, 
Continue ftill thyfelf to give the llroke, 
And let not foreign foes opprefs thy land. Dry den .' 
IMMU'TABLY, adv. Unalterably; invariably; un¬ 
changeably.—His love is like his effence, immutably eter¬ 
nal. Boyle. , 
IMMUTA'TION, f. In rhetoric, the liypallage, a 
figure in which the cafes or order of words in a fentence 
are changed. 
IM'NA, or Imnah, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
IMO'LA, a town of Italy, in the Hate of the Church, 
and province of Romagna, fituated on an illand formed 
by the river Salerno, furrounded with walls, towers, and 
ditches, and defended with a ftrong caftle ; the fee bf a 
bilhop, fuffragan of Ravenna. It contains fixteen churches, 
and Seventeen convents: eighteen miles fouth-eaft of Bo¬ 
logna, and forty north-north-eaft of Florence.- Lat. 44. 
22. N. Ion. 29. 18. E. Ferro. 
IMOS'CHI, the name of a territory in Italy, which lies 
between Vergoraz and Almifia. It is twenty miles in 
length, and fifteen in breadth ; containing forty villages, 
and 12,600 inhabitants. It is entirely furrounded with 
high mountains, where rifes the rivulet Svaja, which ferves 
as a boundary between the territories of Venice and that 
cf the Ottoman Porte. Sidewards lies the lake Prolofaz, 
with a village of the fame name. The chief place of this 
territory is Imolchi, a fmall fortrefs, with a village of the 
fame appellation ; the former is built on a hill, and only 
accelfible on one fide : it has likew.ife a monallery of the 
Francifcan order. Here the Roman municipal town No- 
vanium is fuppofed to have been built. 
IMP, f- [Wellh, a Ihoot, a fprout, a fprig.] A fon; 
the offspring ; progeny.—That noble imp your-lon. Shakef- 
peare. 
And thou, molt dreadful imp of higheft Jove, 
Fair Venus’ fon. Fairy Queen. 
A fubaltern devil; a puny devil.—Such we deny not to 
be the imps and limbs of Satan. Hooker. 
The ferpent, after long debate, irrefolute 
Of thoughts refolv’d, his final fentence chofe. 
Fit velfel, fitteft imp of fraud, in whom 
To enter, and his dark fuggeftions hide 
From fharpeft fight. Milton. 
To IMP, v. a. To lengthen or enlarge with any thing 
adfcititious. It is originally a term ufed by falconers, 
who repair a hawk’s wing with adfcititious feathers: 
If then we Ihall fhake off our flavifh yoke, 
Imp out our drooping country’s broken wings. Shakefp. 
IM'PACH, a town of Germany, in tire archduchy of 
Auftria : fix miles weft-north-weft of Crems. 
IM'PACABLE, adj. [from impacatus, Lat.] Not to be 
appeafed : 
That freed from bands of impacable fate 
And powre of death, they live for ay above. Spenfer. 
To IMPACT 7 , v. a. [impatdus , Lat.] To drive clofe or 
hard.—They are angular; but of what particular figure 
is not ealy to determine, becaufe of their being impabled 
fo thick and confuiedly together. Woodward . 
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IMPACTING, f. The aft of driving clofe together.. 
To IMP A 7 1 NT, v. a. To paint; to decorate with co¬ 
lours. Not in ufc. 
Never yet did infurreftion want 
' Such water-colours to impaint his caufe. Shakefpeare. 
To IMPAIR 7 , v. a. [ empirer , Fr. to make worfe.] To 
diminilh ; to injure; to make worfe; to lelTen in quan¬ 
tity, value, or excellence.—-To change any fuch law, mull 
needs, with the common fort, impair and weaken the force 
of thofe grounds whereby all laws are made effeftuai. 
Hooker. 
That foon refreih’d him weary’d, and repair’d 
What hunger, if aught hunger had impair'd, 
Or thirft. Milton. 
To IMPAI'R, v. n. To be lefter.ed or worn out.—Flefii 
may impair, quoth he ; but reafon can repair. Fairy Queen. 
IMPAI'R, f. Diminution ; decreafe. Not ufed. —A load- 
ftone, kept in undue pofition, that is, not lying on the 
meridian, or with its poles inverted, receives in longer 
time impair in aftivity and exchange of faces, and is more 
powerfully preferved by fite than dull of Heel. Brown. 
IMPAIR'ER, f. What impairs.—Immoderate labour 
and immoderate ftudy are equally the impairers of health. 
Warburton. 
IMPAIRING, f. A diminution ; an injury. Not much 
ufed. Scott. 
IMPAIR'MENT, f. Diminution ; injury.—His pos¬ 
terity, at this diftance, and after fo perpetual impairment x 
cannot but condemn the poverty of Adam’s conception, 
that thought to oblcure himfelf from his Creator in the 
Ihade of the garden. Brown. 
To IMPA'LE, v. a. TO empale, to inclofe with pales, 
to punilh by driving a flake through the body. Scott. 
IMPA'LED, adj. In heraldry, iqarlhalled in pale; 
borne as the arms of a man and his wife, one the right and 
the other on the left ficle of the efcutcheon. 
IMPA'LEMENT, f An empalement; an ancient and 
barbarous cullom of punilhing malefaftors by driving a 
flake through their bodies. 
IMPAL'PABLE, adj. Not to be perceived by touch.—■ 
If beaten into an impalpable powder, when poured out, it 
will emulate a liquor, by reafon that the fmallnefs of the 
parts do make them eafv to be put into motion. Boyle. 
IMPANA'TION, J. [from in, Lat. into, and partis', 
bread.] In the Lutheran church, the fuppofed lubfiftence 
of the body of Chrilt with the fpecies of bread in the 
Lord’s Supper. 
IMPAN'NEL,/ & adj. See Empannel, vol. vi. 
To IMPAR'ADISE, v. a. To put in a place or Hate 
refembling paradiie in felicity.—This imparadifed neigh¬ 
bourhood made Zelmane’s loul cleave unto her, both 
through the ivory cafe of her body, and the apparel which 
did overcloud it. Sidney. 
Thus thefe two, 
Imparadis’d in one another’s arms. 
The happier Eden, Ihall enjoy their fill 
Of blifs on blifs. Milton. 
IMPAR'ADISING,y. The aft of placing in paradife; 
the aft of making happy. 
IMPARASYLLAB'IC, adj. [from impar, Lat. un¬ 
equal, and fyllabus, a fyllable.] Having unequal fyllables, 
IMPARGAMEN'TUM, J. In old records, the right 
of impounding cattle. 
IMPAR'ITY, / \_imparitas, impar, Lat.] Inequality; 
difproportion.—Some bodies are hard, lome loft: the 
hardnefs is caufed chiefly by the jejunenefs of the fpirits, 
and their imparity with the tangible parts. Bacon. —Odd- 
nefs ; indivifibility into equal parts.—What verity is there 
in that numeral conceit, in the lateral divifion of man, 
by even and odd ; and lb by parity or imparity of letters 
in men’s names, to determine misfortunes on either fide 
of their bodies? Brown. 
To IMPAR'K, v. a. To ir.clofe with a park; to fever 
from a common. 
IMPARK'ING, 
