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They view the windings of the hoary Nar ; 
Through rocks and woods impetudujly he glides, 
While froth and foam the fretting furface hides. Addifon. 
IMPET'UOUSNESS, /. [from impetuous.'] Violence ; 
fury; vehemence of paflion.—I wilh all words or rage 
might vanifli in that breath that utters them ; that, as 
they referable the wind in fury and impetuoufnefs, fo they 
might in tranfientnefs. Decay of Piety. 
IMPETUS,/ [Latin.] Violent tendency to any point; 
violent effort.—Why did they not continue their defcent 
’till they were contiguous to the fun, whither both mu- 
_lual attractions and impetus carried them ? Bentley. 
IMPIC'TURED, adj. Painted : 
His pallid face, impiElured with death, 
She bathed oft with tears, and dried oft. Spenfer. 
IMPIER/CEABLE, adj. Impenetrable; not to be 
pierced : 
Exceeding rage inflam’d the furious beaft; ' 
For never felt his impierceable bread 
So wond’rous force from hand of living wight. Spenfer. 
IMPIER'MENT, /. In old ftatutes, the aft of impair¬ 
ing; damage done "to any thing—To the implement and 
diminution of their good names. Stat. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 9. 
IMPPETY, f. [impiete, Fr. impietas, Lat.] Irreverence 
to the Supreme Being; contempt of the duties of religion : 
To keep that oath were more impiety 
Than Jephtha’s when he facrificd his daughter. Sh'akefp. 
An aft: of wickednefs; exprefflon of irreligion. In this 
ienfe it has a plural.—If they die unprovided, no more is 
the king guilty of thefe impieties for which they are now 
viflted. Skakefpeare. —We have a melancholy profpecl: of 
the date of our religion : fuch amazing impieties can be 
equalled by nothing but by thofe cities conlumed of old 
by fire. Swift. 
To IMPIG'NORATE, v. a. [ in and pignus, Lat.] To 
pawn; to pledge. 
IMPIG'NORATION, f. The aft of pawning or put¬ 
ting to pledge. 
IMPIG'RITY, /. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and piger, 
flow.] Quicknefs ; alertnefs. Not much ufed. Bailey. 
IMPIG'ROUS, adj. Diligent; ready. Cole. 
IMP ING, f. The aft of grafting or lengthening out. 
To IMPIN'GE, v.n. [impingo, Lat.] To fall again It; 
to ftrike againft ; to clalh with.—The caule of reflection 
is not the impinging of light on the lolid or impervious 
parts of bodies. Newton. 
IMPJN'GING, f. The aft of ftriking one againft ano¬ 
ther with violence. 
To IMPIN'GUATE, v. a. [in and pinguis, Lat.] To 
fatten ; to make fat.—Friftions alfo do more fill and im- 
pinguate the body than exercife for that in friftions the 
inward parts are at reft. Bacon. 
IM'PIOUS, adj. [ itnpius , Lat.] Irreligious ; wicked ; 
profane; without reverence of religion.—That Scripture 
ftandeth not the church of God in any ftead to direft, 
but may be let pafs as needlefs to be confulted with, we 
judge it profane, impious, and irreligious, to think. Hooker. 
Then lewd Auchemolus he laid in duft. 
Who ftain’d his ftepdame’s bed with impious lull. Dryden. 
IM'PIOUSLY, adv. Profanely; wickedly: 
The Roman wit, who impioujly divides 
His'hero and his gods to different fides, 
I would condemn. Granville. 
IMPIOUSNESS, f. Profanenefs; wickednefs. 
IMPLAC ABIL'ITY, f. [from implacable.] Inexorable- 
nefs ; irreconcileable enmity ; unappeafable malice. 
IMPLA'CABLE, adj. [implacabilis, Lat. implacable, Fr.] 
Not to be pacified ; inexorable ; malicious ; conftant in 
enmity.—The French are the moft implacable and the molt 
dangerous enemies of the Britilh nation. Addifon , 
Darah bears a generous mind: 
But to implacable revenge inclin’d ; 
A bounteous mafter, but a deadly foe. Dryden. 
IMPLA'CABLENESS, /. The ftate of being impla¬ 
cable. 
IMPLA'CABLY, adv. With malice not to be pacified ; 
inexorably.—An order was made for difarming all the 
papifts ; upon which, though nothing was after done, yet 
it kept up the apprehenfions in the people of dangers, and 
difinclined them from the queen, whom they began every 
day more implacably to hate, and consequently to difoblige. 
Clarendon. —It is once ufed by Dryden in a kind of mixed 
fenfe of a tyrant’s love : 
I love, 
And ’tis below my greatnefs to difown it: 
Love thee implacably, yet hate thee too. Dryden. 
To IMPLA'NT, v. a. [in and planto, Lat.] To infix; to 
infert; to place ; to engraft; to fettle ; to fet; to fow. 
The original meaning, of putting a vegetable into the 
ground to grow’, is not often ufed.—There grew to the 
outfide of the arytenoides another cartilage, capable of 
motion by the help of fome mufcles that were implanted 
in it. Ray. 
See, Father! what firft-fruits on earth are fprung, 
From thy implanted grace in man ! Milton. 
IMPLANTATION, f. The aft of fetting of planting ; 
the aft of infixing or fettling. 
IMPLANT'ING, f. The aft of infixing. 
IMPLAU'SIBLE, adj. [»: and p/aufble.] Not fpecious ; 
not likely to feduce or perfuade.—Nothing can better im¬ 
prove political fchool-boys than the art of making plaufi- 
ble or implavfible harangues againft the very opinion for 
which they refolve to determine. Swift. 
To IMPLEA'D, v.a. [from plaider, Fr. to plead.] To 
fue ; to profecute by a courfe of law. Scott. 
IMPLE'ADING, f. The aft of prolecuting by a courfe 
of law. 
IMPLE'ASING, adj. Difpleafing.— hnpleafmg to all, as 
all to him. Overbury. 
IMPLEMENT, f [implementum, from impleo, Lat.] 
Something that fills up vacancy, or fupplies. wants.—Unto 
life many implements are neceflary; more, if we feek fuch 
a life as hath in it joy, comfort, delight, and pleafure. 
Hooker .—Jnftrument of manufafture; tools of a trade; 
veflels of a kitchen.—Wood hath coined feventeen thou- 
fand pounds, and hath his tools and implements to coin fix 
times as much. Swift. 
IMPLETION, f. [impleo, Lat.] The aft of filling; 
the ftate of being full.—Theoplnaftus conceiveth, upon a 
plentiful impletion, there may lucceed a difruption of the 
matrix. Brown. 
IMPLEX, adj. [implexus; Lat.] Intricate; entangled; 
complicated; oppoled to fvnpie. —Every poem is either 
fimple or implex: it is called fimple when there is no change 
of fortune in it; implex, when the fortune of the chief 
aftor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad. 
SpeElator. 
To IMPLICATE, v.a. [impliquer, Fr. implico, Lat.] 
To entangle ; to embarrafs ; to involve; to infold.—The 
ingredients of faltpetre do fo mutually implicate and hin¬ 
der each other, that the concrete afts but very languidly. 
Boyle. 
IMPLICATING, f. The aft of infolding; the aft 
of including another in a particular tranfaftion or accu- 
fation. 
IMPLICATION, f. Involution ; entanglement.— 
Three principal caufes of firmnefs are the groffnefs, the 
quiet contaft, and the implication, of the component parts. 
Beyle. —Inference not exprelfed, but tacitly inculcated.— 
Though civil caufes, according to fome men, are of lefs 
moment than criminal, yet the doctors are, by implication , 
of a different opinion. Aylijfc, 
Implication's. 
