Immortalization noun The act of immortalizing, or state of being immortalized.

Immortalize transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Immortalized ; present participle & verbal noun Immortalizing .] [ Confer French immortaliser .]
1. To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever. S. Clarke.

2. To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame.

Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his guilty name.

T. Dawes.

Immortalize intransitive verb To become immortal. [ R.]

Immortally adverb In an immortal manner.

Immortelle noun ; plural Immortelles . [ French See Immortal .] (Botany) A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria , Helichrysum , Gomphrena , etc. See Everlasting .

Immortification noun Failure to mortify the passions. [ R.] Jer. Taylor.

Immovability noun The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose.

Immovable adjective
1. Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of material things; as, an immovable foundation.

Immovable , infixed, and frozen round.

Milton.

2. Steadfast; fixed; unalterable; unchangeable; -- used of the mind or will; as, an immovable purpose, or a man who remains immovable .

3. Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive. Dryden.

4. (Law.) Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable , noun Blackstone.

Immovable apparatus (Medicine) , an appliance, like the plaster of paris bandage, which keeps fractured parts firmly in place. -- Immovable feasts (Eccl.) , feasts which occur on a certain day of the year and do not depend on the date of Easter; as, Christmas, the Epiphany, etc.

Immovable noun
1. That which can not be moved.

2. plural (Civil Law) Lands and things adherent thereto by nature, as trees; by the hand of man, as buildings and their accessories; by their destination, as seeds, plants, manure, etc.; or by the objects to which they are applied, as servitudes. Ayliffe. Bouvier.

Immovableness noun Quality of being immovable.

Immovably adverb In an immovable manner.

Immund adjective [ Latin immundus ; prefix im- not + mundus clean.] Unclean. [ R.] Burton.

Immundicity noun [ Confer French immondicité , Latin immunditia , immundities .] Uncleanness; filthiness. [ R.] W. Montagu.

Immune adjective [ Latin immunis . See Immunity .] Exempt; protected by inoculation. -- Im*mu"nize transitive verb

Immune noun One who is immune; esp., a person who is immune from a disease by reason of previous affection with the disease or inoculation.

Immunity noun ; plural Immunities . [ Latin immunitas , from immunis free from a public service; prefix im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, confer munus service, duty: confer French immunité . See Common , and confer Mean , adjective ]
1. Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.

2. Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.

Immunity noun The state of being insusceptible to poison, the contagion of disease, etc.

Immure transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Immured ; present participle & verbal noun Immuring .] [ Prefix im- in + mure : confer French emmurer .]
1. To wall around; to surround with walls. [ Obsolete] Sandys.

2. To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.

Those tender babes
Whom envy hath immured within your walls.

Shak.

This huge convex of fire,
Outrageous to devour, immures us round.

Milton.

Immure noun A wall; an inclosure. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Immurement noun The act of immuring, or the state of being immured; imprisonment.

Immusical adjective Inharmonious; unmusical; discordant. Bacon.

Immutability noun [ Latin immutabilitas : confer French immutabilité .] The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness. Hebrew vi. 17.

Immutable adjective [ Latin immutabilis ; prefix im- not + mutabilis mutable. See Mutable .] Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change; unchangeable; unalterable.

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation.

Hebrew vi. 18.

Immutable , immortal, infinite,
Eternal King.

Milton.

-- Im*mu"ta*ble*ness , noun -- Im*mu"ta*bly , adverb

Immutate (ĭm*mū"tat) adjective [ Latin immutatus , past participle of immature .] Unchanged. [ Obsolete]

Immutation noun [ Latin immutatio , from immutare , immutatum , to change. See Immute .] Change; alteration; mutation. [ R.] Dr. H. More.

Immute (ĭm*mūt") transitive verb [ Latin immutare , immutatum ; perf. im- in + mutare to change : confer Old French immuter .] To change or alter. [ Obsolete] J. Salkeld.

Imp (ĭmp) noun [ Middle English imp a graft, Anglo-Saxon impa ; akin to Danish ympe , Swedish ymp , probably from Late Latin impotus , Greek ... engrafted, innate, from ... to implant; ... in + ... to produce; akin to English be . See 1st In- , Be .]
1. A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

2. An offspring; progeny; child; scion. [ Obsolete]

The tender imp was weaned.

Fairfax.

3. A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker.

To mingle in the clamorous fray
Of squabbling imps .

Beattie.

4. Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng.]

Imp transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Imped ; present participle & verbal noun Imping .] [ Anglo-Saxon impian to imp, ingraft, plant; akin to Danish ympe , Swedish ympa , Old High German impfōn , impitōn , German impfen . See Imp , noun ]
1. To graft; to insert as a scion. [ Obsolete] Rom. of R.

2. (Falconry) To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Hence, Fig.: To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen; to equip. [ Archaic]

Imp out our drooping country's broken wing.

Shak.

Who lazily imp their wings with other men's plumes.

Fuller.

Here no frail Muse shall imp her crippled wing.

Holmes.

Help, ye tart satirists, to imp my rage
With all the scorpions that should whip this age.

Cleveland.

Impacable adjective [ Latin prefix im- not + pacare to quiet. See Pacate .] Not to be appeased or quieted. [ Obsolete] Spenser. -- Im*pa"ca*bly , adverb

Impackment noun [ Prefix im- in + pack .] The state of being closely surrounded, crowded, or pressed, as by ice. [ R.] Kane.

Impact transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Impacted ; present participle & verbal noun Impacting .] [ Latin impactus , past participle of impingere to push, strike against. See Impinge .] To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place. Woodward.

Impact noun
1. Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated.

The quarrel, by that impact driven.

Southey.

2. (Mech.) The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.

Impacted adjective Driven together or close.

Impacted fracture (Surg.) , a fracture in which the fragments are driven into each other so as to be immovable.

Impaction noun [ Latin impactio a striking : confer French impaction .]
1. (Surg.) The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.

2. An immovable packing; (Medicine) , a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast.

Impaint transitive verb To paint; to adorn with colors. [ R.] "To impaint his cause." Shak.

Impair transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Impaired ; present participle & verbal noun Impairing .] [ Written also empair .] [ Middle English empeiren , enpeiren , Old French empeirier , empirier , French empirer , Late Latin impejorare ; Latin prefix im- in + pejorare to make worse, from pejor worse. Confer Appair .] To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.

Time sensibly all things impairs .

Roscommon.

In years he seemed, but not impaired by years.

Pope.

Syn. -- To diminish; decrease; injure; weaken; enfeeble; debilitate; reduce; debase; deteriorate.

Impair transitive verb To grow worse; to deteriorate. Milton.

Impair adjective [ French impair uneven, Latin impar ; im- not + par equal.] Not fit or appropriate. [ Obsolete]

Impair noun Diminution; injury. [ Obsolete]

Impairer noun One who, or that which, impairs.

Impairment noun [ Middle English enpeirement , Old French empirement .] The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.

Impalatable adjective Unpalatable. [ R.]

Impale transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Impaled ; present participle & verbal noun Impaling .] [ See 2d Empale .]
1. To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale .

Then with what life remains, impaled , and left
To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake.

Addison.

2. To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround.

Impale him with your weapons round about.

Shak.

Impenetrable, impaled with circling fire.

Milton.

3. (Her.) To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention.

Ordered the admission of St. Patrick to the same to be matched and impaled with the blessed Virgin in the honor thereof.

Fuller.

Impalement noun
1. The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled. Byron.

2. An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed. H. Brooke.

3. That which hedges in; inclosure. [ R.] Milton.

4. (Her.) The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale , 3.

Impalla noun (Zoology) The pallah deer of South Africa.

Impallid transitive verb To make pallid; to blanch. [ Obsolete] Feltham.

Impalm transitive verb To grasp with or hold in the hand. [ R.] J. Barlow.

Impalpability noun [ Confer French impalpabilité .] The quality of being impalpable. Jortin.

Impalpable adjective [ Prefix im- not + palpable : confer French impalpable .]
1. Not palpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch. " Impalpable powder." Boyle.

2. Not material; intangible; incorporeal. " Impalpable , void, and bodiless." Holland.

3. Not apprehensible, or readily apprehensible, by the mind; unreal; as, impalpable distinctions.

Impalpably adverb In an impalpable manner.