Immaterialize Im`maˇte"riˇalˇize transitive verb [ Confer French immatérialiser .] To render immaterial or incorporeal.

Immateralized spirits.

Glanvill.

Immaterially Im`maˇte"riˇalˇly adverb 1. In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance.

2. In an unimportant manner or degree.

Immaterialness Im`maˇte"riˇalˇness noun The state or quality of being immaterial; immateriality.

Immateriate Im`maˇte"riˇate adjective Immaterial. [ Obsolete] Bacon.

Immature Im`maˇture" adjective [ Latin immaturus ; prefix im- not + maturus mature, ripe. See Mature .] 1. Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans. "An ill-measured and immature counsel." Bacon.

2. Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death. [ R.] Jer. Taylor.

Immatured Im`maˇtured" adjective Immature.

Immaturely Im`maˇture"ly adverb In an immature manner. Warburion.

Immatureness Im`maˇture"ness noun The state or quality of being immature; immaturity. Boyle.

Immaturity Im`maˇtu"riˇty noun [ Latin immaturitas : confer French immaturité .] The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness.

When the world has outgrown its intellectual immaturity .

Caird.

Immeability Im`meˇaˇbil"iˇty noun [ Prefix im- not + Latin meabilis passable, from meare to pass.] Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness.

Immeability of the juices.

Arbuthnot.

Immeasurability Imˇmeas`urˇaˇbil"iˇty noun The quality of being immeasurable; immensurability.

Immeasurable Imˇmeas"urˇaˇble adjective [ Prefix im- not + measurable : confer French measurable . Confer Immensurable , Unmeasurable .] Incapable of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast.

Of depth immeasurable .

Milton.

Immeasurableness Imˇmeas"urˇaˇbleˇness noun The state or quality of being immeasurable.

Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone.

F. W. Robertson.

Immeasurably Imˇmeas"urˇaˇbly adverb In an immeasurable manner or degree. " Immeasurably distant." Wordsworth.

Immeasured Imˇmeas"ured adjective Immeasurable. [ R.] Spenser.

Immechanical Im`meˇchan"icˇal adjective Not mechanical. [ Obsolete] Cheyne. -- Im"me*chan"ic*al*ly , adverb [ Obsolete]

Immediacy Imˇme"diˇaˇcy noun The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness. Shak.

Immediate Imˇme"diˇate adjective [ French immédiat . See In- not, and Mediate .] 1. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

You are the most immediate to our throne.

Shak.

2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. "Assemble we immediate council." Shak.

Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared,
By some immediate stroke.

Milton.

3. Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause.

The immediate knowledge of the past is therefore impossible.

Sir. W. Hamilton.

Immediate amputation (Surg.) , an amputation performed within the first few hours after an injury, and before the the effects of the shock have passed away.

Syn. -- Proximate; close; direct; next.

Immediately Imˇme"diˇateˇly adverb 1. In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately ; as, immediately contiguous.

God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop.

South.

2. Without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at once.

And Jesus . . . touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Matt. viii. 3.

3. As soon as. Confer Directly , 8, Note.

Syn. -- Directly; instantly; quickly; forthwith; straightway; presently. See Directly .

Immediateness Imˇme"diˇateˇness noun The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes. Bp. Hall.

Immediatism Imˇme"diˇaˇtism noun Immediateness.

Immedicable Imˇmed"iˇcaˇble adjective [ Latin Immedicabilis . See In- not, and Medicable .] Not to be healed; incurable. "Wounds immedicable ." Milton.

Immelodious Im`meˇlo"diˇous adjective Not melodious.

Immemorable Imˇmem"oˇraˇble adjective [ Latin immemorabilis ; prefix im- not + memorabilis memorable: confer French immémorable . See Memorable .] Not memorable; not worth remembering. Johnson.

Immemorial Im`meˇmo"riˇal adjective [ Prefix im- not + memorial : confer French immémorial .] Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial . " Immemorial elms." Tennyson. " Immemorial usage or custom." Sir M. Hale.

Time immemorial (Eng. Law.) , a time antedating (legal) history, and beyond "legal memory" so called; formerly an indefinite time, but in 1276 this time was fixed by statute as the begining of the reign of Richard I. (1189). Proof of unbroken possession or use of any right since that date made it unnecessary to establish the original grant. In 1832 the plan of dating legal memory from a fixed time was abandoned and the principle substituted that rights which had been enjoyed for full twenty years (or as against the crown thirty years) should not be liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not been enjoyed before.

Immemorially Im`meˇmo"riˇalˇly adverb Beyond memory. Bentley.

Immense Imˇmense" adjective [ Latin immensus ; prefix im- not + mensus , past participle of metiri to measure: confer French immense . See Measure .] Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge. " Immense the power" Pope. " Immense and boundless ocean." Daniel.

O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense !

Milton.

Syn. -- Infinite; immeasurable; illimitable; unbounded; unlimited; interminable; vast; prodigious; enormous; monstrous. See Enormous .

Immensely Imˇmense"ly adverb In immense manner or degree.

Immenseness Imˇmense"ness noun The state of being immense.

Immensible Imˇmen"siˇble adjective [ Immense + -ible .] Immeasurable. [ Obsolete] Davies.

Immensity Imˇmen"siˇty noun ; plural Immensities . [ Latin immensitas : confer French immensité .] The state or quality of being immense; inlimited or immeasurable extension; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk; greatness.

Lost in the wilds of vast immensity .

Blackmore.

The immensity of the material system.

I. Taylor.

Immensive Imˇmen"sive adjective Huge. [ Obsolete] Herrick.

Immensurability Imˇmen`suˇraˇbil"iˇty noun The quality of being immensurable.

Immensurable Imˇmen"suˇraˇble adjective [ Prefix im- not + Latin mensurabilis measurable: confer French immensurable . Confer Immeasurable .] Immeasurable.

What an immensurable space is the firmament.

Derham.

Immensurate Imˇmen"suˇrate adjective [ Prefix im- not + mensurate .] Unmeasured; unlimited. [ R.] W. Montagu.

Immerge Imˇmerge" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Immerged ; present participle & verbal noun Immerging .] [ Latin immergere ; prefix im- in + mergere to dip, plunge: confer French immerger . See Merge , and confer Immerse .] To plungel into, under, or within anything especially a fuid; to dip; to immerse. See Immerse .

We took . . . lukewarm water, and in it immerged a quantity of the leaves of senna.

Boyle.

Their souls are immerged in matter.

Jer. Taylor.

Immerge Imˇmerge" intransitive verb To dissapear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun. [ R.]

Immerit Imˇmer"it noun Want of worth; demerit. [ R.] Suckling.

Immerited Imˇmer"itˇed adjective Unmerited. [ Obsolete] Charles I.

Immeritous Imˇmer"itˇous adjective [ Latin immeritus ; prefix im- not + meritus , past participle of merere , mereri , to deserve.] Undeserving. [ Obsolete] Milton.

Immersable Imˇmers"aˇble adjective See Immersible .

Immerse Imˇmerse" adjective [ Latin immersus , past participle of immergere . See Immerge .] Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. [ Obsolete] "Things immerse in matter." Bacon.

Immerse Imˇmerse" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Immersed ; present participle & verbal noun Immersing .] 1. To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.

Deep immersed beneath its whirling wave.

J Warton.

More than a mile immersed within the wood.

Dryden.

2. To baptize by immersion.

3. To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm.

The queen immersed in such a trance.

Tennyson.

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed inn the enjoyments of this.

Atterbury.

Immersed Imˇmersed" past participle & adjective 1. Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid.

2. Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.

3. (Botany) Growing wholly under water. Gray.

Immersible Imˇmers"iˇble adjective [ From Immerse .] Capable of being immersed.

Immersible Imˇmers"iˇble adjective [ Prefix im- not + Latin mersus , past participle of mergere to plunge.] Not capable of being immersed.

Immersion Imˇmer"sion noun [ Latin immersio ; confer French immersion .] 1. The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.

2. Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.

3. The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.

Too deep an immersion in the affairs of life.

Atterbury.

4. (Astron.) The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion .

Immersion lens , a microscopic objective of short focal distance designed to work with a drop of liquid, as oil, between the front lens and the slide, so that this lens is practically immersed .

Immersionist Imˇmer"sionˇist noun (Eccl.) One who holds the doctrine that immersion is essential to Christian baptism.

Immesh Imˇmesh" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Immeshed ; present participle & verbal noun Immeshing .] [ Prefix im- in + mesh . Confer Inmesh .] To catch or entangle in, or as in, the meshes of a net. or in a web; to insnare.

Immethodical Im`meˇthod"icˇal adjective Not methodical; without method or systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused. Addison.

Syn. -- Irregular; confused; disoderly; unsystematic; desultory.

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