IMPUGNING
IMPU'GNING, participle present tense Opposing; attacking; contradicting.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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IMPUISSANCE
IMPUIS'SANCE, noun Impotence; weakness.
IMPULSE
IM'PULSE, noun im'puls. [Latin impulsus, from impello. See Impel.]1. Force communicated; the effect of one body acting on another. impulse is the effect of motion, and is in pro...
IMPULSION
IMPUL'SION, noun [Latin impulsio. See Impel.]1. The act of driving against or impelling; the agency of a body in motion on another body.2. Influence on the mind; impulse.
IMPULSIVE
IMPULS'IVE, adjective Having the power of driving or impelling; moving; impellent.Poor men! poor papers! We and theyDo some impulsive force obey.
IMPULSIVELY
IMPULS'IVELY, adverb With force; by impulse.
IMPUNITY
IMPU'NITY, noun [Latin impunitas; in and punio, to punish.]1. Exemption from punishment or penalty. No person should be permitted to violate the laws with impunityimpunity encou...
IMPURE
IMPU'RE, adjective [Latin impurus; in and purus, pure.]1. Not pure; foul; feculent; tinctured; mixed or impregnated with extraneous substance; as impure water or air; impure sal...
IMPURELY
IMPU'RELY, adverb In an impure manner; with impurity.
IMPURENESS
IMPU'RENESSIMPU'RITY, noun [Latin impuritas, supra.]1. Want of purity; foulness; feculence; the admixture of a foreign substance in any thing; as the impurity of water, of air, ...
IMPURITY
IMPU'RITY, n. [L. impuritas, supra.]1. Want of purity; foulness; feculence; the admixture of a foreign substance in any thing; as the impurity of water, of air, of spirits, or o...
IMPURPLE
IMPUR'PLE, verb transitive [in and purple;] To color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; as a field impurpled with blood.The brightPavement, that like a sea of jasper ...
IMPURPLING
IMPUR'PLING, participle present tense Tinging or coloring with purple.
IMPUTABLE
IMPU'TABLE, adjective [See Impute.] That may be imputed or charged to a person; chargeable. Thus we say, crimes, sins, errors, trespasses are imputable to those who commit them....
IMPUTABLENESS
IMPU'TABLENESS, noun The quality of being imputable.
IMPUTATION
IMPUTA'TION, noun The act of imputing or charging; attribution; generally in an ill sense; as the imputation of crimes of faults to the true authors of them. We are liable to th...
IMPUTATIVE
IMPU'TATIVE, adjective That may be imputed.
IMPUTATIVELY
IMPU'TATIVELY, adverb By imputation.
IMPUTE
IMPU'TE, verb transitive [Latin imputo; in and puto, to think, to reckon; properly, to set, to put, to throw to or on.]1. To charge; to attribute; to set to the account of; gene...
IMPUTED
IMPU'TED, participle passive Charged to the account of; attributed; ascribed.
IMPUTER
IMPU'TER, noun One that imputes or attributes.
IMPUTING
IMPU'TING, participle present tense Charging to the account of; attributing; ascribing.
IMPUTRESCIBLE
IMPUTRES'CIBLE, adjective [in and Latin putresco, to putrefy.]Not subject to putrefaction or corruption.
IN
IN, a prefix, Latin in is used in composition as a particle of negation, like the English un, of which it seems to be a dialectical orthography; or it denotes within, into, or a...
INABILITY
INABIL'ITY, noun [Latin inhabilis; in and habilis.]1. Want of sufficient physical power or strength; as the inability of a man to raise an arm or a leg.2. Want of adequate means...
INABLEMENT
INA'BLEMENT, noun [See Enable.] Ability. [Not in use.]
INABSTINENCE
INAB'STINENCE, noun [in and abstinence.] A not abstaining; a partaking; indulgence of appetite; as the inabstinence of Eve.