writers. The fame body may be conceived to be more or less impartible than it is active or heavy. Digby IMPASSABLE. adj. [in and passable.] Not to be paffed; not admiting paffage; impervious. -There are in America many high and impaffable mountains, which are very rich. Raleigh.— Over this gulf Impaffable, impervious, let us try, To found a path from hell to that new world. Milton. -When Alexander would have paffed the Ganges, he was told by the Indians that all beyond it was either impaffable marshes, or fandy defarts. Temple. (1.) * IMPASSIBILITY n. f. [impaffibilité, Fr. from impaffible.] Exemption from fuffering; infufceptibility of injury from external things.-Two divinities might have pleaded their prerogative of impaffibility, or at least not have been wounded by any mortal hand. Dryden. (2.) IMPASSIBILITY. The Stoics place the foul of their wife men in an impaffible, imperturbable ftate. See APATHY, § 2. *IMPASSIBLE. adj. [impaffible, French; in and paffio, Lat.] Incapable of fuffering; exempt from the agency of external caufes; exempt from pain. -If the upper foul check what is confented to by the will, in compliance with the flesh, and can then hope that, after a few years of sensuality, that rebellious fervant fhall be eternally caft off, drop into a perpetual impasible nothing, take a long progrefs into a land where all things are forgotten, this would be fome colour. Hammond.Secure of death, I should contemn thy dart, Though naked and impaffible depart. Dryden. * IMPASSIBLENESS. n.. [from impoffible.] Impaffibility; exemption from pain.-How thamelefs a partiality is it, thus to referve all the fenfualities of this world, and yet cry out for the impaffibleness of the next? Decay of Piety." IMPASSIONED. adj. [in and paffion.] Difordered by paffion. So, ftanding, moving, or to height upgrown, The tempter, all impassion'd, thus began. Milt. * IMPAŠSIVE. adj. [in and possive.] Exempt from the agency of external caufes. She told him what thofe empty phantoms were, Forms without bodies, and impassive air. Dryd. Pale funs, unfelt at diftance, roll away; And on th' impaffiveice the lightnings play. Pope. IMPASTATION, n. f. the mixtion of various materials of different colours and confiftencies, baked or bound together with some cement, and hardened either by the air or by fire. * IMPASTED. adj. (in and pafte.] Concreted as into pafte. This word is not in use. Horridly trickt With blood of fathers, mothers,daughters, fons, Bak'dand impaled with the parching fires. Shak. *IMPATIENCE. n. f. [impatience, Fr. impatientia, Lat.] 1. Inability to fuffer pain; rage under fuffering. All the power of his wits has given way to his impatience. Shk.-The experiment I refolved to make was upon thought, and not rafhnefs or impatience. Temple. 2. Vehemence of temper; heat of paffion. 3. Inability to fuffer delay; eagernefs. IMPATIENS, TOUCH-ME-NOT, and BALSA MINE: A genus of the monogamia order, belong ing to the fyngenefia class of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 24th order Corydales. The calyx is diphyllous; the corolla pentapetalous, and irregular, with a hooded nec tarium; the capsule superior and quinquevalved. I. IMPATIENS BALSAMINA, or BALSAM, is native of India. It has a fibrous root, an upright thick, fucculent ftalk, branching all around a foot and a half or two feet high; with long, fpear fhaped, fawed leaves, the upper ones alternate and from the joints of the ftalk and branches cluf ters of fhort foot-ftalks, each fuftaining one large irregular flower, of different colours in the varieties; flowering from June or July till September. This fpecies requires artificial warmth. The feeds will indeed grow in the full ground, but rarely be fore May; and more freely then, if covered with a hand-glafs, &c. But the plants raised by artifi cial heat will flower 5 or 6 weeks fooner than thofe raised in the natural ground. The feeds ought therefore always to be fowed on a hot-bed in March or April, and the plants continued therein till June; and if the frames be deep, they will then be drawn up to the length of 2 or 3 feet; after which they may be planted in pots, which muft likewise be continued in the hot-bed till the plants have taken fresh root. 2. IMPATIENS NOLI-ME-TANGERE, or common yellow balfamine, is a native of Britain, but is cultivated in many gardens for curiofity. It has a fibrous root, an upright jointed, fucculent, ftalk, about 18 inches high, with alternate oval leaves; and, from the axillas of the ftalks, long, flender, branching footftalks, each fuftaining many yellow flowers; fucceeded by taper capfules, that burft open, and dart forth their feeds with great velocity, whence its name. It is very hardy, and will grow freely from the feeds in any common border. * IMPATIENT. adj. [impatient, Fr. impatiens, Lat.] 1. Not able to endure; incapable to bear: with of. Fame, impatient of extremes, decays wound Dryden. 3. Vehemently agitated by some painful paffion; with at before the occafion: with of impatience is referred more to the thing, with at to the perfon.-To be impatient at the death of a perfon, concerning whom it was certain he muft die, is to mourn because thy friend was not born an angel. Taylor. 4. Hot; hafty.-The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him. Addison. 5. Eager; ardently defirous; not able to endure delay: with for before the thing defired. The mighty Cæfar waits his vital hour, Impatient for the world, and grafps his promis'd pow'r. Dryden. On the feas prepar'd the vessel ftands; Th' impatient mariner thy fpeed demands. Pope. * IMPATIENTLY. ady. [from impatient.] 1, . been ; With rage, under uneasiness. 2. Passionately; ar- The king, provok'd to it by the queen, dently. He considered one thing so impatiently, Devis'd impeachments to imprison him. Shak. that he would not admit any thing else to be worth-The Lord Somers, though his accusers would confideration. Clarendon. 3. Eagerly; with great gladly have dropped their impeachment, was in defire. ftant with them for the prosecution. Addison TO IMPATRONIZE. v. a. [impatroniser, Fr. The consequences of Coriolanus'simpeachment had in and patronize.) To gain to one's self the power like to bave been fatal to their state. Swift. of any feigniory. This word is not usual. --The (2.) IMPEACHMENT, ($ 1. def. 2.) is a profecuambition of the French king was to impatronize tion for treason and other crimes and misdemean. himself of the duchy. Bacon. ors. Any member of the lower house of parlia* TO IMPAWN. v. a. in and pawn.) To im. ment may impeach any one belonging either to pignorate; to pawn; to give as a pledge; to that body or to the house of lords. The method pledge. of proceeding is to exhibit articles on the behalf Go to the king, and let there be impawn'd of the commons, by whom managers are appoint. Some surety for a safe return again. Shak. ed to make good their charge. These articles are Many now in health carried to the lords, by whom every person imShall drop their blood, in approbation peached by the commons is always tried ; and if Of what your reverence shall invite us to; they find him guilty, no pardon under the great Therefore take heed how you impawn our per. seal can be pleaded to such an impeachment. 12 fon, Will. III. cap. ii. How you awake our Neeping sword of war. * TO IMPEARL. v. a. (in and pearl.] 1. To Shak. form in resemblance of pearls.IMPEACH. n. S. (from the verb.) Hindrance; Innumerable as the stars of night, let; impediment. Or stars of morning, dewdrops, which the fun Why, what an intricate impeach is this ! Impearls on every leaf, and ev'ry Rower. Milt. If here you hous'd him, here he would have 2. To decorate as with pearls.-The dews of the morning impearl every thorn, and scatter diamonds If he were mad, he would not plead so coldly. on the verdant mantle of the earth. Digby to Pope. Shak. IMPECCABILES, in church history, a name TO IMPEACH. v. a. (empecher, Fr.] 1. To hin. given to those heretics who boasted that they were der; to impede. This sense is little in use.- impeccable, and that there was no need of repent Each door he opened without any breach ; ance : such were the Gnoftics, Priscillianists, &c. There was no bar to stop, nor foe him to impeach. (1.) * IMBECCABILITY. n. l. (impeccabilité, Spenser. French: from impeccable.) Exemption from fin; --His sons did impeach bis journey to the Holy exemption from failure.--Infallibility and impeccaLand, and vexed him all the days of his life. bility are two of his attributes. Pope. Davies. If they will impeach the purposes of an (2.) IMPECCABILITY is the rate of a person army, which they have no reason to think them. who cannot fin; or a grace, privilege, or princiselves able to refift, they put themselves out of ple, which puts him out of a possibility of finning. all expectation of mercy. Hayward.— A de Auxion Divines distinguish several kinds and degrees of on my throat impeached my utterance. Howel. 2. impeccability: that of God belongs to him effenTo accufe by public authority. They were both tially: that of Jesus Chrift, confidered as man, beimpeached by a house of commons. Addison.- longs to him by the hypoftatical union : that of Great diffentions were kindled between the nobles the blessed is a consequence of their condition : and commons on account of Coriolanus, whom that of men is the effect of a confirmation in grace, the latter had impeached. Swift. and is rather called IMPECCANCE than impeccabi* IMPEACHABLE. adj. (from impeach.] Ac. lity. Accordingly divines distinguish between these, cufable; chargeable.-Had God omitted, by pofi. and this distinction is necessary in the disputes tive laws, to give religion to the world, the wisdom against the Pelagians, to explain certain terms in of bis providence had been impeachable. Grew. the Greek and Latin fathers, which without it are IMPEACHER. n. . [from impeucb.). An ac. eafily confounded. cufer; one who brings an accusation against ano- *'IMPECCABLE, adj. [impeccable, French; ther.- Many of our fiercest impeachers would leave in and pecco, Latin.] Exempt from possibility of the delinquent to the merciful indulgence of a Sa. fin. That man pretends he never commits any viour. Göv. of the Tongue. act prohibited by the word of God, and then that (1.) * IMPEACHMENT.n.f: [from impeach.) were a rare charm to render him impeccable, or 1. Hindrance ; let; impediment ; obttruction. that is the means of confecrating every lin of his. Not in use.Tell us what things, during your Hammond. late continuance there, are most offensive, and the • TO IMPEDE. v. a. Iimpedio, Latin.) To greateft impeachment to the good government there- hinder ; to let ; to obftru&t. --All the forces are of. Spenfer or Ireland. muftered to impede its paffage. Decay of Piety:Tell thy king I do not seek him now; The way is open, and no stop to force But could be willing to march on to Calais, The stars return, or to impede their courfe. Without impeachment. Shak. Henry. V. Crecchio -Neither is this accession of necessity any impeach. (1.) * IMPEDIMENT. n. f. [impedimentum, ment to Christian liberty, or ensnaring of men's Latin.] Hindrance ; let ; impeachment; obftrucconsciences. Sanders. 2. Public accusation; charge tion. The minds of beasts grudge not at their preferred, bodies comfort, nor are their seoses letted from enjoying D% The moift impediments unto my fpeech, Prior Dreadful in arms, on Landen's glorious plain Place Ormond's duke: impendent in the air Let his keen fabre, comet-like, appear. * IMPENETRABILITY. n. j. [impenetrabilité, French, from impenetrable.] 1. Quality of not being pierceable, or permeable.-All bodies, fo far as experience reaches, are either hard, or may be hardened; and we have no other evidence of univerfal impenetrability, befides a large experience without an experimental exception. Newton. Infufceptibility of intellectual impreffion. 2. May I never Shak. To this good purpose, that so fairly shows, Dream of impediment. Shak. -They bring one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his fpeech. Mark vii. 32.-Fear is the greatest impediment to martyrdom; and he that is overcome by little arguments of pain, will hardly confent to lofe his life with torments. Taylor. Free from th' impediments of light and noise, Man, thus retir'd, his nobler thoughts employs. Waller. (2.) IMPEDIMENTS, in law, are fuch hindrances as put a stop to a person's seeking his right by a due courfe of law. Perfons under impediments are thofe under age or coverture non compos mentis, in prison, beyond fea, &c. who, by a faving in our laws, have time to claim and profecute their rights, after the impediments are removed, in case of fines levied, &c. *To IMPEL. v. a. [impello, Latin.] To drive on towards a point; to urge forward; to prefs on. So Myrrah's mind, impell'd on either fide, Takes ev'ry bent, but cannot long abide. Dryd. The furge impell'd me on a craggy coaft. Pope. Propitious gales Pope. fends, Attend thy voyage, and impel thy fails. Pope. * IMPELLENT. n. f. \impellens, Latin.] An impulfive power; a power that drives forward.How fuch a variety of motions should be regularly managed, in fuch a wilderness of paffages, by mere blind impellents and material conveyances, I have not the leaft conjecture. Glanv. * To IMPEND. v. n. [impendeo, Lat.] 1. To hang over. Deftruction fure o'er all your heads impends; UlyЛles comes, and death his steps attends. Pope. 2. To be at hand; to prefs nearly. It is ufed in, an ill fenfe.-It expreffes our deep forrow for our paft fins, and our lively sense of God's impending wrath. Smalridge's Sermons. No ftory I unfold of public woes, Nor bear advices of impending foes. Pope. IMPENDENCE, n. f. (from impendent.] The ftate of hanging over; near approach.-Good fometimes is not fafe to be attempted, by reafon of the impendence of a greater fenfible evil. Hale. IMPENDENT. adj. [impendens, Lat.] Imminent hanging over; preffing clofely. In an ill fenfe.-If the evil feared or impendent be a greatér fenfible evil than the good, it over-rules the appetite to averfation. Hale * IMPENETRABLE. adj. [impenetrable, Fr. impenetrabilis, Lat.] 1. Not to be pierced; not to be entered by any external force With hard'ning cold and forming heat, 2. Impervious; not admitting entrance.- It is the most impenetrable cur -Let him alone; I'll follow him no more with bootlefs prayers. Shak -Some will never believe a proposition in divini ty, if any thing can be faid against it; they wil be credulous in all affairs of life, but impenetrabi by a fermon of the gospel. Taylor. *IMPENETRABIY. adv. [from impenetra ble.] With hardness to a degree capable of im preflion. Blunt the fenfe, and fit it for a skull Of folid proof, impenetrably dull. Pop * IMPENITENCE. n. f. [impenitence, Fr. i and pendu * IMPENITENCY. racy; want of remorse for crimes; final difregar of God's threatenings or mercy.-Where one ma ever comes to repent, a thousand end their days i final impenitence. South.-Before the revelation the gofpel, the wickedness and impenitency of th heathens was a much more excufeable thing, be cause they were in a great measure ignorant of th rewards of another life. Tillotson.-He will ad vance from one degree of wickedness and impen tence to another, 'till at last he becomes hardene without remorse. Rogers. * IMPENITENT. adj. [impenitent, Fr. in an Impenitent, and left a race behind, Milto When the reward of penitents, and punishme of impenitents, is once affented to as true, 'tis in poffible but the mind of man thould with for th one, and have dislikes to the other. Hammond. •IMPENITENTLY. adv. [from impenitent.] Obdurately; without repentance. The condition required of us is a conftellation of all the gofpel graces, every one of them rooted in the heart, though mixed with much weakness, and perhaps with many fins, fo they be not wilfully and impenitently lived and died in. Hammond. What crowds of thefe, impenitently bold, In founds and jingling fyllables grown old, Still run on poets! Pope. IMPENNOUS. adj. [in and penna, Latin.] Wanting wings. This word is convenient, but, I think, not used. It is generally received an ear wigg bath no wings, and is reckoned amongst impennus infects; but he that fhall, with a needle, put afide the fhort and fheathy cafes on their back, may draw forth two wings, larger than in many fies. Brown. • IMPERATE. adj. [imperatus, Lat.] Done with confcioufnefs; done by direction of the mind. -The elicit internal acts of any habit may be quick and vigorous, when the external imperate ads of the same habit utterly cease. South.-Thofe natural and involuntary actings are not done by deliberation, yet they are done by the energy of the foul and inftrumentality of the fpirits, as well as thole imperate acts, wherein we fee the empire of the foul. Hale. places of Italy. Mr Lightfoot informs us, that he found it in feveral places on the banks of the Clyde in Scotland; but whether it be indigenous, is uncertain. The root is as thick as a man's thumb, running in the ground; it is fleshy, aromatic, and has a strong acrid tafte, biting the tongue like pellitory of Spain; the leaves arife immediately from the root; they have long foot ftalks, dividing into three very fhort ones at the top, each fuftaining a trilobate leaf, indented on the border. The foot-ftalks are deeply channelled, and when broken, emit a rank odour. The flower-ftalks rife about 2 feet high, dividing into 2 or 3 branches, each terminated by a pretty large umbel of white flowers, whofe petals are split; the fe are fucceeded by oval compreffed feeds, or by parting the roots in autumn. It thrives beft in a fhady fituation. The root has a flower fimilar to that of angelica, and is efteemed a good fudorific. There are inftances of its having turned the ague when the bark had failed. It should be dug up in winter, and a ftrong infufion made in wine. * IMPERCEPTIBLE. adj. [imperceptible, Fr. in and perceptible.] Not to be difcovered; not to be perceived; fmall; fubtile; quick or flow, fo as to elude obfervation. Some things are in their nature_imperceptible by our fenfe; yea, and the more refined parts of material exiftence, which, (1.) IMPERATIVE. adj. [imperatif, French, by reafon of their fubtilty, escape our perception. imperativus, Latin.] Commanding; expreffive of Hale. In the fudden changes of his subject with command.-The verb is formed in a different almoft imperceptible connections, the Theban poet manner, to fignify the intention of commanding, is his master. Dryden.-The parts muft have their forbidding, allowing, difallowing, intreating; outlines in waves, resembling flames, or the glidwhich likewife, from the principal ufe of it, is calling of a fnake upon the ground: they must be al ed the imperative mood. Clarke. (2) The IMPERATIVE MOOD, is one of the moods of a verb, used when we would command, ntreal, or advife: thus, go, read, take, pity, be fed, are imperatives in our language. But in the learned languages, this mood has a peculiar termination to diftinguish it, doce or doceto, teach; lege or legito, read, &c. are not only fo, but the termination varies, according as we addrefs one or more perfons, as audi and audite; azuila, axuilse, Miura, &c. IMPERATIVELY. adv. In a commanding yle; authoritatively. IMPERATOR, [Latin, i. e. commander.] in Roman antiquity, a title of honour conferred on victorious generals by their armies, and afterwards confirmed by the fenate. Though origi ally no more than a military title in the republican armies, yet upon the degeneracy of the Romas republic, and affumption of the fupreme power by Cæfar and Augustus, it was used to exprefa the most unlimited defpotifm, and a rank fuperior to that of King. Hence the origin of EXPEROR. IMPERATORIA, MASTERWORT, a genus of the digynia order, belonging to the pentandria clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 45th order, Umbellata. The fruit is Fondifh, compreffed in the middle, gibbous, and furrounded with a border; the petals are inflexoemarginated. There is only one fpecies, viz. IMPERATORIA OSTRUTHIUM, a native of the | Auftrian and Styrian Alps, and other mountainous moft imperceptible to the touch, and even. Dryden. The alterations in the globe are very flight, and almost imperceptible, and fuch as tend to the benefit of the earth. Wood. * IMPERCEPTIBLENESS. n. The qua lity of eluding obfervation.-Many excellent things there are in nature, which, by reafon of their fubtilty and imperceptibleness to us, are not so muchas within any of our faculties to apprehend. Hale. IMPERCEPTIBLY.adv. [from imperceptible.} La a manner not to be perceived.--Upon reading of a fable, we are made to believe we advise our felves: the moral infinuates itfelf imperceptibly, we are taught by furprife, and become wifer and better unawares. Addison. (1.) IMPERFECT. adj. [imparfait, Fr. im perfedus, Lat.] 1. Not complete; not abfolutely finished; defective. Ufed either of perfons or things. Something he left imperfect in the state, Which, fince his coming forth, is thought of, Which brought the kingdom fo much fear and danger, Shak. That his return was most requir❜d. Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfec thing, fettled in the imagination; but never arri ving at the understanding, there to obtain the tincture of reafon. Ben Jonfon.-The middle action, which produceth imperfect bodies, is fitly called, by fome of the ancients, inquination or inconcoction, which is a kind of putrefaction, Bacon.-The ancients were imperfect in the doctrige: of meteors, by their ignorance of gun powder The main body of the marching foe To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts, and worthy thee. Dryd. (2.) IMPERIAL. See EMPEROR and EMPIRE. (3.) IMPERIAL CHAMBER, a fovereign court, eftablished for the affairs of the immediate states of the empire. See CHAMBER, N° III. § 2. and GERMANY, $33. (4.) IMPERIAL CITIES, in Germany, are those which own no other head but the emperor. Thefe are a kind of little commonwealths; the chief magiftrate whereof does homage to the emperor, but in other refpects, and in the administration of juftice, is fovereign. They have a right to coin money, and to keep forces and fortified places. Their deputies affift at the imperial diets, where they are divided into branches, that of the Rhine and that of Suabia. There were formerly 22 in the former and 37 in the latter; but there were only 48 in all, before the late war, and the number is now ftill farther reduced. (5.) IMPERIAL CROWN. See HERAldry, Chap. IV. Sect. I. (6.) IMPERIAL DIET, an affembly or convention of all the states of the empire. See DIET, § III. ii; and GERMANY, § 32. (7.) IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, a title given the United Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, fince Jan. 1. 1801, when the UNION of the three kingdoms was completed. IMPERIALE, a city of S. America, in Chili, 18 miles from the South Sea, feated on a steep neck of land, N. of the Cauten. In 1660, it was taken and burnt by the Indians, after a whole year's fiege, moft of the inhabitants having perished by famine. In the course of this war, the Indians partly avenged the cruelties of the Spaniards on their countrymen. Lon. 84. 12. W. Lat. 39. 41. S. (1.) IMPERIALI, John Baptift, a celebrated phyfician, of a noble family, born at Vicenza, in 1568. He was profeffor of philofophy and phyfic at Padua; and compofed several esteemed works in profe and verfe, written in good Latin, parti cularly Exercitationes exotica: Venet. 1640; 4to. He died in 1623. (2.) IMPERIALI, John, the son of the above, (N° 1.) born in 1602, was also a famous phyfician and author. He wrote 1. Mujaum Hiftoricum: 2. Mufaum Phyficum, five de humano ingenio; Ven. 1640. He died in 1653. * IMPERIALIST. n. f. [from imperial.] One that belongs to an emperor.-The imperialifis imputed the cause of so shameful a flight unto the Venetians. Knolles. * IMPERIOUS. adj. imperieux, Fr. imperiofus, Lat.] 1. Commanding; tyrannical; authoritative; haughty; arrogant; affuming command.— If it be your proud will To fhew the power of your imperious eyes. This imperious man will work us all From princes into pages. Spenfer Shak Of the full fortun'd Cæfar ever shall Not th' imperious show powder and fireworks. Brown.-Divers things we agree to be knowledge, which yet are fo uneafy to be fatisfactorily understood by our imperfect intellects, that let them be delivered in the cleareft expreffions, the notions themselves will yet appear obfcure. Boyle.-A marcor is either imperfect, tending to a greater withering, which is curable; or perfect, that is, an entire wafting of the body, excluding all cure. Harvey. The ftill-born founds upon the palate hung, And dy'd imperfect on the falt'ring tongue. Dryden. -As obfcure and imperfet ideas often involve our reason, so do dubious words puzzle men. Locke. 2. Frail, not completely good: as our best worfhip is imperfe&. (2.) IMPERFECT TENSE, in grammar, a tenfe that denotes fome preterite cafe, or denotes the thing to be at that time prefent, and not quite finished; as fcribebam, I was writing. IMPERFECTION. n. f. [imperfection, Fr. from imperfect.] Defect; failure; fault; whether phyfical or moral; whether of perfons or things. -Laws, as all other things human, are many times full of imperfection; and that which is fuppofed behoveful unto men, proveth oftentimes moft pernicious. Hooker.-The duke had taken to wife Anne Stanhope, a woman for many imperfections intolerable; but for pride monftrous. Hayw. -Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamations of them. L'Efrange. The world is more apt to cenfure than applaud, and himself fuller of imperfections than virtues. Addison.-These are rather to be imputed to the fimplicity of the age than to any imperfection in that divine poet. Addif. * IMPERFECTLY.adv. [from imperfect.] Not completely; not fully; not without failure. Should finking nations fummon you away, Maria's love might justify your stay ; Imperfectly the many vows are paid, Which for your fafety to the gods were made. Stepney. -Thofe would hardly understand language or reafon to any tolerable degree; but only a little and imperfe&ly about things familiar. Locke. *IMPERFORABLE. adj. [in and perforo, Lat.] Not to be bored through. * IMPERFORATE. adj. [in and perforatus, Lat.] Not pierced through; without a hole.Sometimes children are born imperforate; in which case a small puncture, dreffed with a tent, effects the cure. Sharp. (1.) * IMPERIAL. adj. [imperial, French, imperialis, Lat.] 1. Royal; poffeffing royalty. Aim he took At a fair veftal, throned in the Weft; moon, Shak. And the imperial vot'ress passed on In maiden meditation, fancy free. a. Betokening royalty; marking fovereignty,My due from thee is this imperial crown, Which, as immediate from thy place and blood, Derives itself to me. Sbak. 3. Belonging to an emperor or monarch; regals royal; monarchical. |