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care was rather how to impound the rebels, that none of 
them might efcape, than that any doubt was made to 
vanquifii them. Bacon. —To fliut up in a pinfold.—Seeing 
him wander about, I took him up for a ftray, and impounded 
him, with intention to reftore him to the right owner. 
Dryden. 
England 
Hath taken and impounded as a ftray 
The king. Shakefpeare. 
IMPOUND'AGE, f. The aft of impounding cattle. 
IMPOUNDING,y.' The aft of (hutting up in apound. 
To IMPOW'ER. See Empower. 
. IMPRACTICABLE, adj. [impraticable , Er. in and 
praElicableJ Not to be performed ; unfeafible ; impol- 
fible.—Plad there not been (till remaining bodies, the 
legitimate offsprings of the antediluvian earth, ’twould 
have been an extravagant and impraElicable undertaking 
to have gone about to determine any thing concerning it. 
Woodward. —Untraftable ; unmanageable ; ftubborn : 
That fierce impracticable nature 
Is govern’d by a dainty-fingur’d girl. - Rowe. 
IMPRACTICABLENESS, f. Impofiibility.—I do not 
know a greater mark of an able minifter than that of 
rightly adapting the feveral faculties of men, nor is any 
thing more to be lamented than the impradicabUnefs of 
doing this. Swift. —Untraftablenefs; ftubborne'fs. 
To IM'PRECATE, v. a. [imprecor, Lat.] * To call for 
evil upon himfelf or othersi. 
IMPRECATING,,/. The aft of calling for evil. 
IMPRECATION, J. [ imprecatio , Lat. imprecation, Fr. 
from imprecate .] Curie; prayer by which any evil is wi filed 
to another or himfelf.—Sir John Hotham, uncurled by 
any imprecation of mine, paid his own and his eldeft fon's 
heads. King. 
.With imprecations thus he fill’d the air, 
And angry Neptune heard th’ unrighteous pray’r. Pope. 
IMPRECATORY, adj. Containing wifiles of evil. 
IMPRE'CIABLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and 
pretium, a prize.] Having no value. Not ufed. Cole. 
To IMPRE'GN, v. a. [in and preegno, Lat.] To fill with 
young ; tp fill with any matter or quality; to make preg¬ 
nant : ' 
In her ears the found 
Yet rung of his perfuafive words hnpregn'd 
With reafon to her teeming. Milton. 
•Th’ unfruitful rock itfelf, hnpregn'd by thee, 
Forms lucid ftones. Thomfon. 
IMPREG'NABLE, adj. [ impregnable , Fr.] Not to be 
{formed ; not to be taken.—Two giants kept themfelves 
in a caitle, feated upon the top of a rock, impregnable , be- 
caule there was no conning to it but by one narrow path, 
where one man’s force was able to keep down an army. 
Sidney. 
Let us be back’d with God, and with the feas. 
Which he had given for fence impregnable, 
And with their helps alone defend ourlelves. Shakefpeare. 
Unlhaken; unmoved; unafFefted ; invincible.—The man’s 
affeftion remains wholly unconcerned and impregnable ; 
jult like a rock, which, being plied continually by the 
waves, fall throws them back again, but is not at all 
moved. South. 
IMPREGNABLENESS, f The Hate of being impreg¬ 
nable. 
IMPREGNABLY, adv. In fuch a manner as to defy 
force or hoifility.—A caftle ftrongly feated on a high rock 
joineth by an ifthmus to the land, and is impregnab/y forti¬ 
fied. Sandy s. 
To IMPREGNATE, v.a. [in and pragno, Lat.] To 
■'6.11 with young; to make prolific.—Hermaphrodites, al- 
Yol, X. No. 726. 
though they include the parts of both fexes, cannot im¬ 
pregnate themfelves. Brown. —To fill; to laturate. 
IMPREGNATE, adj. Filled with young : 
Impregnate, from their loins they filed 
Afiimyjuice. Dryden. 
With native earth their blood the monfters mix’d ; 
The blood, endu’d with animating heat, 
Did in the impregnate earth new foils beget. . Dryden. 
IMPREGNATING, f. The aft of making prolific ; 
the aft of faturating. 
IMPREGNATION, f. The aft of making prolific ; 
fecundation.—They ought to refer matters unto counfel- 
lors, which is the firlt begetting or impregnation ; but when 
they are elaborate in the womb of" their counfel, and 
grow ripe to be brought forth, then they take the matter 
back into their own hands. Bacon. —That with which any 
thing is impregnated.—VvPat could implant in the body 
fuch peculiar impregnations, as. flionld have fuch power ? 
Dcrham. 
For the procefs of impregnation, and the growth and 
appearance of the child in the womb, fee Anatomy of 
the Gravid Uterus, vol. i. p. 64.1-652. and for an account 
of the various fyftems upon that fubjeft, fee the fame ar¬ 
ticle, p. 643. and the articles Animalcule, Concep¬ 
tion, and Generation. 
The word impregnation is alfo ufed, in pharmacy, for 
communicating the virtues of one medicine to another, 
whether by mixture, coftion, digeftion, laturation, &c. 
IMPREGNING, f. The aft of making prolific. 
IMPREJU'DICATE, adj. [in, pres, and judico, Lat.] 
Unprejudiced; not prepofl’effed; impartial.—The folid 
reafon of one man with imprejudicate apprehenfions, begets 
as firm a belief as the authority or aggregated teftimony 
of many hundreds. Brown. 
IMPREPARA'TION,/. [in and preparation.) Unpre- 
parednefs ; want of preparation.— Impreparation and un- 
readinefs when they find in us, they turn it to the footh- 
ing-up of themfelves. Hooker. 
IMPRESCRIPTIBLE, adj. [from tn f Lat. contrary 
to, and praferibo, to preferibe.] Surpafiing the bounds of 
prefeription. Cole. 
To IMPRESS', v.a. [imprejfum, Lat.] To print by pref- 
fure ; to Itamp : 
When God from earth form’d Adam in the Eaft, 
He his own image oh the clay imprejl. Denham. 
To fix deep.—We fltould dwell upon the arguments, and 
imprefs the motives of perfuafion upon our own hearts, 
’till we feel the force of them. Watts. —To mark, as im- 
preffed by a Ramp : 
So foul and ugly, that exceeding fear 
Their vifages imprejl, when they approached near. Spenfer, 
To force into fervice. This is generally now fpoken and 
written prefs .—Ormond fliould contribute all he could 
for the making thofe levies of men, and for imprcjfng of 
{hips. Clarendon. 
His age has charms in it, his title more. 
To pluck the common bofoms on his fide. 
And turn our imprejl launces in our eyes 
Which do command them.' Shakefpeare. 
IMPRESS', f. [from the verb.] Mark made by pref- 
fure.—They having taken the imprejfes of the infides of 
thefe {hells with that exquifite nicenefs, as to exprefs even 
the fined lineaments of them. Woodward. 
This weak imprefs of love is as a figure 
Trenched in ice, which with an hour’s heat 
Diflolves to water. . Shakefpeare. 
Effefts of one fubfiance or another.—Kovv objects are re- 
prefented to myfelf I cannot be ignorant; but in what 
manner they are received, and what imprejfes they make 
upon the differing organs of-another, he only knows that 
feels them, Glanville. —Mark of diftinftion ; Itamp.—God, 
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