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IMPOLIT'ICALLY, or Impol'iticly, advs With¬ 
out art or forecaft. 
IMPOL'ITICNESS, f. The ftate or quality of being 
impolitic. Scott. 
IMPON'DEROUS, adj. [in and ponderous.'] Void of 
perceptible weight.—It produces vifible and real effects 
by imponderous and invifible emiffions. Brown. 
To IMPO'NE, v. a. [from impono, Lat.] To put down 
by way of (taking a wager.—The king, fir, hath wagered 
with him fix Barbary horfes; againll which he has imponed, 
as I take it, lix French rapiers and poniards. Shakefpeare. 
To IMPOO'R, v. a. To make poor : 
Neither waves, nor thieves, nor fire, 
Nor have rots impoor'd this fire. IV. Browne. 
IMPOP'ULAR. adj. Unpopular, not pleafing to the 
people. Bolingbroke. 
IMPORCATION, f [from imporco, Lat. to make a 
baulk.] The aft of making a baulk, or falfe ridge, in 
ploughing. Scott. 
IMPOROS'ITY,/! | 7 b and porous.] Abfence of inter- 
ftices; compaftnefs; clofenefs.—The porofity ok imporo- 
fity betwixt the tangible parts, and the greatnefs or fmall- 
nefs of the pores. Bacon. 
IMPO'ROUS, adj. Free from pores; free from vacu¬ 
ities or interftices ; clofe of texture ; completely folid.—* 
It has its earthly and falinous parts fo exactly refolved, 
that its body is left imporous, and not difereted by atomi¬ 
cal terminations. Brown —If atoms fhould defeend plumb 
down with equal velocity, being all perfectly folid and 
imporous, they would never the one overtake the other. Ray. 
IMPO'ROUSNESS, f. Clofenefs of texture; imporofity. 
Scott. 
To IMPORT, v. a. [importo, Lat.] To carry into any 
country from abroad ; oppofed to export: 
For Elis I would fail with utmoft fpeed, 
T’ import twelve mares, which there luxurious feed. Pope. 
To imply : to infer.—Himfelf not only comprehended all 
our necelllties, but in fuch fort alfo framed every petition 
as might moft naturally ferve for many ; and doth, though 
not always require, yet always import , a multitude of fpeak- 
ers together. Hooker. —To produce in confequence : 
Something he left imperfeft in the ftate, 
Which fince his. coming forth is thought of, which 
Imports the kingdom fo much fear and danger, 
That his return was mod requir’d. Shakefpeare. 
[Importer, importe, Fr. Imperfonally.] To be of moment: 
as, It imports, it is of weight or confequence.—Number in 
armies importelh not much, where the people is of rveak 
courage. Bacon. 
This to attain, whether hehv’n move, or earth. 
Imports not, if thou reckon right. Milton. 
IMPO'RT, f. Importance ; moment; confequencei— 
When there is any difpute, the judge ought to appoint 
the fum according to the eloquence and ability of the ad¬ 
vocate, and in proportion to the import of the caufe. Aylijfe. 
What occalion of import 
Hath all fo long detain’d you from your wife? Shakefp. 
Tendency.—Add to the former obfervations made about 
vegetables a third of the fame import made in mineral fub- 
ftances. Beyle. —Any thing imported from abroad. In this 
fenfe it is accented on the firft fyllable.—With regard to 
the general account of England's foreign balance, the ex¬ 
ports have been computed at feven millions fteriing, and 
its imports at five. Guthrie. 
IMPORTABLE, adj. Unfupportable ; not to be en¬ 
dured. A word accented by Spenfer on the firft fyllable. 
It is ufed in the Apocrypha : 
Both at once him charge on either fide, 
With hideous ftrokes and importable power, 
That forced him his ground to traverfe wide, 
And wifely watch to ward that deadly flour, fairy Queen. 
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IMPORTANCE, f. [French.] Thing imported or im¬ 
plied ; rare.'—A notable paflion of wonder appeared in 
them ; but the wifeft beholder, that knew no more but 
feeing, could not fay if the hirportance were joy or forrow. 
Shakefpeare. —Matter; fubjeft. Not in ufe. —It had been 
pity you ftiould have been put together with fo mortal a 
plirpofe, as then each bore, upon importance of fo flight a 
nature. Shakefpeare. —Confequence ; moment: 
Thy own importance know, 
Nor bound thy narrow views to things below. Pope. 
Importunity. An improper ufe peculiar to Shakefpeare: 
Maria writ 
The letter at fir Toby’s great importance-. 
In recompence whereof he hath married her. Shakefpeare. 
IMPOR'TANT, adj. [important, Fr.] Momentous ; 
weighty ; of great confequence.—The moft important and 
prefiing care of a new and vigorous king was his mar¬ 
riage, for mediate eftablifhment of the royal line. Wot ton.. 
Important truths (till let your fables hold. 
And moral myfteries with art unfold. Granville. 
Momentous ; forcible ; of great efficacy.—This feems to 
be the meaning here : 
He fiercely at him flew. 
And with important outrage him aflail’d : 
Who, foon prepar’d to field, his (word forth drew, 
And him with equal vajour countervail’d. Fairy Queen. 
Importunate. A corrupt ufe of the word: 
Great France 
My mourning and important tears hath pitied. Shakefpeare. 
IMPORTATION, f. [from import.] The act or prac¬ 
tice of importing, orbringing into a country from abroad ; 
oppofed to exportation. —The king’s realonable profit 
fhould not be neglefted upon importation and exportation. 
Bacon. 
IMPORTER, f. One that brings in from abroad.—It 
is impoftible to limit the quantity that (hall be brought 
in, efpecially if the importers of it have fo Cure a market as 
the Exchequer. Swift. 
IMPORTING, f. The aft of introducing commodi¬ 
ties from abroad ; the aft or ftate of conveying a particu¬ 
lar meaning. 
IMPORT'LESS, adj. Of no moment or confequence.. 
This is a word not in ufe, but not inelegant: 
We lefs expeft 
That matter needlefs, of importlefs burthen, 
Divide thy lips. Shakefpeare, 
IMPORTU'NACY, f. The aft of importuning : 
Art thou not aftiam’d 
To wrong him with thy importunacy ? Shakefpeare. 
IMPORTUNATE, adj. [importunus, Lat. importun, 
Fr.] Unfeafonable and inceflant in folicitations; not to be 
repulfed.—I was in debt to my importunate bufinefs; but 
he would not hear my excufe. Shakefpeare. 
IMPORTUNATELY, adv. With inceflant folicita- 
tion; pertinacioufly in petition.—Their pertinacy is fuch, 
that, when you drive them out of one form, they aflume 
another ; and are fo importunately troublefome, as makes 
many think it impoflible to be freed from them. Duppa. 
IMPORTUNATENESS, f. [from importunate.] Incef- 
lant folicitation.—She with more and more importunatenefs 
craved, which, in all good manners, was either of us to 
be defired, or not granted. Sidney. 
To IMPORTUNE, v. a. [importuner, Fr. importunus , 
Lat. Accented anciently on the lecond fyllable.] To 
teaze; to harafs with flight vexation, perpetually recur¬ 
ring; to moleft.—If he efpied any lewd gaiety in his fel- 
lovv-fervants, his matter (hould ftraightways know it, and 
not reft free from importuning, until the fellow had put 
away his fault. Game, . 
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