Imbroglio noun ; plural Imbroglios . [ Written also embroglio .] [ Italian See 1st Broil , and confer Embroil .]
1. An intricate, complicated plot, as of a drama or work of fiction.

2. A complicated and embarrassing state of things; a serious misunderstanding.

Wrestling to free itself from the baleful imbroglio .

Carlyle.

Imbrown transitive verb [ Prefix im- in + brown . Confer Embrown .] To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure.

The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned .

Byron.

Imbrue transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Imbureed ; present participle & verbal noun Imbureing .] [ Confer Old French embruer , also embruver , embreuver , embrever , to give to drink, soak (see prefix En- , 1, 1st In- , and Breverage ), but also Middle English enbrewen , enbrowen , to stain, soil (cf. Brewis ).] To wet or moisten; to soak; to drench, especially in blood.

While Darwen stream, will blood of Scots imbrued .

Milton.

Imbruement noun The act of imbruing or state of being imbrued.

Imbrute transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Imbruted ; present participle & verbal noun Imbruting .] [ Prefix im- in + brute : confer French abrutir . Confer Embrute .] To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal.

And mixed with bestial slime,
THis essence to incarnate and imbrute .

Milton.

Imbrute intransitive verb To sink to the state of a brute.

The soul grows clotted by contagion,
Imbodies, and imbrutes , till she quite lose
The divine property of her first being.

Milton.

Imbrutement noun The act of imbruting, or the state of being imbruted. [ R.] Brydges.

Imbue transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Imbued ; present participle & verbal noun Imbuing .] [ Latin imbuere ; prefix im- in + perhaps a disused simple word akin to Latin bibere to drink. Confer Imbibe .]
1. To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

2. To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles.

Thy words with grace divine
Imbued , bring to their sweetness no satiety.

Milton.

Imbuement noun The act of imbuing; the state of being imbued; hence, a deep tincture.

Imburse transitive verb [ Prefix im- in + burse : confer French embourser to put into one's purse. See Burse , and Purse .] To supply or stock with money. [ Obsolete]

Imbursement noun
1. The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed. [ Obsolete]

2. Money laid up in stock. [ Obsolete]

Imbution noun An imbuing. [ Obsolete]

Imesatin noun [ Im id e + i satin .] (Chemistry) A dark yellow, crystalline substance, obtained by the action of ammonia on isatin.

Imide noun (Chemistry) A compound with, or derivative of, the imido group; specif., a compound of one or more acid radicals with the imido group, or with a monamine; hence, also, a derivative of ammonia, in which two atoms of hydrogen have been replaced by divalent basic or acid radicals; -- frequently used as a combining form; as, succin imide .

Imido adjective (Chemistry) Pertaining to, containing, or combined with, the radical NH, which is called the imido group .

Imido acid , an organic acid, consisting of one or more acid radicals so united with the imido group that it contains replaceable acid hydrogen, and plays the part of an acid; as, uric acid, succinimide, etc., are imido acids .

Imitability noun [ See Imitable .] The quality of being imitable. Norris.

Imitable adjective [ Latin imitabilis : confer French imitable . See Imitate .]
1. Capable of being imitated or copied.

The characters of man placed in lower stations of life are more usefull, as being imitable by great numbers.

Atterbury.

2. Worthy of imitation; as, imitable character or qualities. Sir W. Raleigh.

Imitableness noun The state or quality of being imitable; worthness of imitation.

Imitancy noun [ From Latin imitans , present participle of imitare .] Tendency to imitation. [ R.] Carlyle.

Imitate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Imitated ; present participle & verbal noun Imitating .] [ Latin imitatus , past participle of imitari to imitate; of unknown origin. Confer Image .]
1. To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc.

Despise wealth and imitate a dog.

Cowlay.

2. To produce a semblance or likeness of, in form, character, color, qualities, conduct, manners, and the like; to counterfeit; to copy.

A place picked out by choice of best alive
The Nature's work by art can imitate .

Spenser.

This hand appeared a shining sword to weild,
And that sustained an imitated shield.

Dryden.

3. (Biol.) To resemble (another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object) in form, color, ornamentation, or instinctive habits, so as to derive an advantage thereby; sa, when a harmless snake imitates a venomous one in color and manner, or when an odorless insect imitates , in color, one having secretion offensive to birds.

Imitation noun [ Latin imitatio : confer French imitation .]
1. The act of imitating.

Poesy is an art of imitation , . . . that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth.

Sir P. Sidney.

2. That which is made or produced as a copy; that which is made to resemble something else, whether for laudable or for fraudulent purposes; likeness; resemblance.

Both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

Dryden.

3. (Mus.) One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Confer Canon .

4. (Biol.) The act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See Imitate , transitive verb , 3.

» Imitation is often used adjectively to characterize things which have a deceptive appearance, simulating the qualities of a superior article; -- opposed to real or genuine ; as, imitation lace; imitation bronze; imitation modesty, etc.

Imitational adjective Pertaining to, or employed in, imitation; as, imitational propensities.

Imitative adjective [ Latin imitavitus : confer French imitatif .]
1. Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent on example; not original; as, man is an imitative being; painting is an imitative art.

2. Formed after a model, pattern, or original.

This temple, less in form, with equal grace,
Was imitative of the first in Thrace.

Dryden.

3. (Nat. Hist.) Designed to imitate another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object, for some useful purpose, such as protection from enemies; having resemblance to something else; as, imitative colors; imitative habits; dendritic and mammillary forms of minerals are imitative .

-- Im"i*ta*tive*ly , adverb -- Im"i*ta*tive*ness , noun

Imitative noun (Gram.) A verb expressive of imitation or resemblance. [ R.]

Imitator noun [ Latin ] One who imitates.

Imitatorship noun The state or office of an imitator. "Servile imitatorship ." Marston.

Imitatress noun A woman who is an imitator.

Imitatrix noun An imitatress.

Immaculate adjective [ Latin immaculatus ; prefix im- not + maculatus , past participle of maculare to spot, stane, from macula spot. See Mail armor.] Without stain or blemish; spotless; undefiled; clear; pure.

Were but my soul as pure
From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold
One more immaculate .

Denham.

Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain.

Shak.

Immaculate conception (R. C. Ch.) , the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin.

-- Im*mac"u*late*ly , adverb -- Im*mac"u*late*ness , noun

Immailed adjective Wearing mail or armor; clad of armor. W. Browne.

Immalleable adjective Not maleable.

Immanacle transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Immanacled ; present participle & verbal noun Immanacling .] To manacle; to fetter; hence; to confine; to restrain from free action.

Although this corporal rind
Thou hast immanacled .

Milton.

Immanation noun [ Prefix im- in + Latin manare to flow; confer mantio a flowing.] A flowing or entering in; -- opposed to emanation. [ R.] Good.

Immane adjective [ Latin immanis .] Very great; huge; vast; also, monstrous in character; inhuman; atrocious; fierce. [ Obsolete] "So immane a man." Chapman.

-- Im*mane"ly , adverb [ Obsolete]

Immanence, Immanency noun The condition or quality of being immanent; inherence; an indwelling.

[ Clement] is mainly concerned in enforcing the immanence of God. Christ is everywhere presented by him as Deity indwelling in the world.

A. V. G. Allen.

Immanent adjective [ Latin immanens , present participle of immanere to remain in or near; prefix im- in + manere to remain: confer French immanent .] Remaining within; inherent; indwelling; abiding; intrinsic; internal or subjective; hence, limited in activity, agency, or effect, to the subject or associated acts; -- opposed to emanant , transitory , transitive , or objective .

A cognition is an immanent act of mind.

Sir W. Hamilton.

An immanent power in the life of the world.

Hare.

Immanifest adjective Not manifest. [ Obsolete] Sir T. Browne.

Immanity noun [ Latin immanitas .] The state or quality of being immane; barbarity. [ R.] Shak.

Immantle transitive verb See Emmantle . [ R.]

Immanuel noun [ Hebrew 'immān...ēl , from 'im with + ān... us + ēl God.] God with us; -- an appellation of the Christ. Is. vii. 14. Matt. i. 23.

Immarcescible adjective [ Latin immarcescibilis ; prefix im- not + marcescere to fade: confer French immarcescible .] Unfading; lasting. [ Obsolete] Bp. Hall.

Immarcescibly adverb Unfadingly. [ Obsolete] Bp. Hall.

Immarginate adjective (Botany) Not having a distinctive margin or border. Grey.

Immartial adjective Not martial; unwarlike. [ Obsolete]

Immask transitive verb To cover, as with a mask; to disguise or conceal. [ R.] Shak.

Immatchable adjective Matchless; peerless. [ Obsolete] Holland.

Immaterial (ĭm`mȧ*tē"rĭ* a l) adjective [ Prefix im- not + material : confer French immatériel .]
1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied.

Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual.

Hooker.

2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does so or not.

Syn. -- Unimportant; inconsequential; insignificant; inconsiderable; trifling.

Immaterialism noun [ Confer French immatérialisme .]
1. The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible.

2. (Philos.) The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism.

Immaterialist noun [ Confer French immatérialiste .] (Philos.) One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.

Immateriality noun ; plural Immaterialities . [ Confer French immatérialit é.] The state or quality of being immaterial or incorporeal; as, the immateriality of the soul.