The ingredients of saltpetre do so mutually implicate and hinder each other, that the concrete acts but very languidly. Boyle.

Three principal causes of firmness are the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of the component parts. Id.

Though civil causes, according to some men, are of less moment than criminal, yet the doctors are, by implication, of a different opinion. Ayliffe's Parergon. Every poem is either simple or implex: it is called simple when there is no change of fortune in it; implex when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad good, or from good to bad. Spectator. IMPLIC'IT, adj. Į Fr. implicite; Lat. imIMPLICITLY, adv. plicitus. Entangled; enfolded; but this sense is rare: inferred, not expressed; entire; resting upon another; connected with another over which that which is connected to it has no power; trusting without reserve or examination: implicitly, with unreserved confidence or obedience.

There be false peaces or unities, when the peace is grounded but upon an implicit ignorance; for all colours will agree in the dark. Bacon.

No longer by implicit faith we err, Whilst every man's his own interpreter. Derham. My blushing muse with conscious fear retires, And whom they like implicitly admires. Roscommon.

In the first establishments of speech there was an implicit compact, founded upon common consent, that such and such words should be signs, whereby they would express their thoughts one to another. South.

We implicitly follow in the track in which they lead us, and comfort ourselves with this poor reflection, that we shall fare as well as those that go before us. Rogers.

Learn not to dispute the methods of his providence; but humbly and implicitly to acquiesce in and adore them. Atterbury.

The divine inspection into the affairs of the world doth necessarily follow from the nature and being of God; and he that denies this, doth implicitly deny his existence: he may acknowledge what he will with his mouth, but in his heart he hath said there is no God.

In his woolly fleece

I cling implicit.

Bentley.

Pope.

Thomson.

Bliss sublunary bliss! proud words and vain!

Implicit treason to divine decree !

Young.

No knife had curbed the rambling sprays, No hand had wove the implicit maze.

Beattie.

We have the implicit order of the Guinta To await their coming here, and join them in Their office. Byron. The Two Foscari. IMPLORE', v. a. & n. s. Į Fr. implorer; IMPLORER, n. s. Lat. imploro. To call upon in supplication; to solicit; to ask or eg: the act of begging or intreaty: implorer, solicitor; a petitioner.

They ship their oars, and crown with wine
The holy goblet to the powers divine,
Imploring all the gods that reign above.

Pope's Odyssey.
Fain to implore the aid of Flattery's screen,
Even from thyself thy loathsome heart to hide.
Beattie. Minstrel,

IMPLY', v. a. Fr. impliquer; Lat. implico. To unfold; to cover; to entangle. Not in use. To involve or comprise as a consequence or concomitant. His courage stout,

Striving to loose the knot that fast him ties, Himself in straighter bonds too rash implies. Faerie Queene.

And Phoebus flying so most shameful sight, His blushing face in foggy cloud implies. Id. That it was in use among the Greeks, the word triclinium implieth. Browne's Vulgar Errours. Bows the strength of brawny arms imply, Emblems of valour, and of victory. Where a malicious act is proved, a malicious intention is implied. Sherlock.

Dryden.

It might

IMPOI'SON, v. a. Fr. empoisonner. be written empoison. To corrupt with poison; to kill with poison; but this is rare. One doth not know

How much an ill word doth impoison liking.

Shakspeare.

Id.

inter

Bacon.

or consequence: import and importance, moment; tendency; consequence; importunity; but this is only used by Shakspeare. Any thing imported from abroad is called an import: important, of weight or consequence: importation, the act of bringing from abroad: importer, the agent by whom imports are made: importless, trifling; of no moment. Importable is accented by Spenser on the first syllable, and signifies insupportable; not to be endured.

God for his manace him so sore smote,

Thatte his peines weren importable.

Chaucer. The Monkes Tale. Both at once him charge on either side, With hideous strokes and importable power, That forced him his ground to traverse wide, And wisely watch to ward that deadly stour. Faerie Queene.

He fiercely at him flew, And with important outrage him assailed; Who soon prepared to field, his sword forth drew, And him with equal valour countervailed. Id. Himself not only comprehended all our necessities, but in such sort also framed every petition as might most naturally serve for many; and doth, though not always require, yet always import a multitude of speakers together. Hooker.

The name of discipline importeth not as they would fain have it construed; but the self same thing it signifieth, which the name of doctrine doth. Id.

Something he left imperfect in the state,
Which since his coming forth is thought of, which
Imports the kingdom so much fear and danger,
That his return was most required. Shakspeare.
Maria writ

The letter at Sir Toby's great importance;
In recompence whereof he hath married her.

A notable passion of wonder appeared in them; but the wisest beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow. Id. Winter's Tale.

This question we now asked, imported, as that we thought this land a land of magicians. Bacon.

Let the heat be such as may keep the metal perpetually molten; for that above all importeth to the work. Id.

Number in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage. Id.

The king's reasonable profit should not be neglected upon importation and exportation. Id.

This superadds treachery to the crime: 'tis the falsifying the most important trust. Decay of Piety. It may import us in this calm to hearken more than we have done to the storms that are now raising

abroad.

Taylor.

If I endure it, what imports it you?

Boyle. Dryden.

Some business of import that triumph wears You seem to go with. Dryden and Lee's Oedipus. The great important end that God designs religion for, the government of mankind, sufficiently shews the necessity of its being rooted deep in the heart, and put beyond the danger of being torn up by any South ordinary violence. These mines fill the country with greater num bers of people than it would be able to bear, with out the importation of corn from foreign parts.

Addison. The emperor has forbidden the importation of their manufactures into any part of the empire. Id. on Italy.

When there is any dispute, the judge ought to appoint the sum according to the eloquence and ability of the advocate, and in proportion to the import of the cause. Ayliffe.

Examine how the fashionable practice of the world can be reconciled to the important doctrine of our religion. Rogers. For Elis 1 would sail with utmost speed, T'import twelve mares, which there luxurious feed, Pope.

Thy own importance know, Nor bound thy narrow views to things below. Id. It is impossible to limit the quantity that shall be brought in, especially if the importers of it have so sure a market as the Exchequer. Swift.

Of what seems

A trifle, a mere nothing by itself,
In some nice situations turns the scale
Of Fate, and rules the most important actions.
Thomson.

Joy is an import; joy is an exchange;
Joy flies monopolists; it calls for two:
Rich fruit! Heaven planted! never plucked by one.
Young.

It is of importance to observe, that, whatever is easy and agreeable to the organs of speech, always sounds grateful to the ear. Blair's Lectures, Drink and be mad then, 'tis your country bids; Gloriously drunk obey the' important call: Her cause demands the assistance of your throats, Ye all can swallow, and she asks no more. Cowper. Now shall this rule be allowed to every science, and not to the most important of all sciences-the science of life and manners? Beattie.

The good old gentleman had been detained By winds and waves, and some important captures; And, in the hope of more at sea remained, Although a squall or two had damped his raptures. Byron, Don Juan, IMPORTUNATE, adj.) Fr. importuner; IMPOR TUNATENESS, n. s. IMPORTUNATELY, adv. IMPORTUNE', v. a. & adj. IMPORTUNE LY, adv. IMPORTUNITY, n. s.

Im

Latin importunus. Unseasonable solicitations; incessant petition, portune, to teaze; harass; or molest. Importune, constantly recurring; troublesome; vexatious; unseasonable; coming at a wrong time. Importunely, troublesomely; incessantly. Importunity, incessant

solicitation.

pose.

Knolles.

Against all sense you do importune her. Shakspeare. I was in debt to my importunate business, but he would not hear my excuse. Id.

Henry, king of England, needed not to have bestowed such great sums, nor so to have busied himself with importune and incessant labour, to compass my death and ruin, if I had been a feigned person.

Bacon's Henry VII. If he espied any lewd gaiety in his fellow-servants, his master should straightways know it, and not rest free from importuning, until the fellow had put away his fault. Carew.

Their pertinacity is such, that when you drive them out of one form, they assume another; and are so importunately troublesome, as makes many think it impossible to be freed from them.

Duppa.

The constitutions that the apostles made concerning deacons and widows, are, with much importunity, but very importunely urged by the disciplinarians.

Sanderson.

Thrice I deluded her, and turned to sport Her importunity. Milton's Agonistes.

No fair to thine

Milton.

Equivalent, or second! which compelled Me thus, though importune perhaps, to come And gaze and worship thee. The same airs which some entertain with most delightful transports to others are importune.

Glanville's Scepsis. The bloom of beauty other years demands, Nor will be gathered by such withered hands; You importune it with a false desire. Dryden. Every one hath experimented this troublesome intrusion of some frisking ideas, which thus importune the understanding, and hinder it from being employed. Locke.

A rule restrains the most importunate appetites of

our nature.

Rogers.

We have been obliged to hire troops from several princes of the empire, whose ministers and residents here perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands. Swift. IMPOSE', v. a. & n. s. Fr. imposer, impoIMPOSE ABLE, adj. sition, imposte, imposIMPO'SER, n. s. teur. Lat. in and IMPOSITION, n. s. pono. Imposition, to IM POST, n. s. lay on as a burden; IM'POSTS, n. s. a penalty to enjoin as IMPOSTOR, n. s. a duty; to fix on, or IMPOSTURE, n. s. impute to; to obtrude fallaciously; to deceive, when used with on: among printers, to put the pages on the stone,

and fit on the chase in order to carry the form s to press. Impose, a command or injunction. Imposeable, to be laid as obligatory on any one. Imposer, one who enjoins. Imposition, the act of laying any thing on another; of annexing; injunction; constraint; oppression; cheat; imposture; a supernumerary exercise enjoined on scholars as a punishment. Impost, a tax; a toll; a custom paid in architecture, that part of a pillar, in vaults and arches, on which the weight of the whole building lieth. Impostor, one who cheats by a fictitious character. Imposture, a fraud, cheat, or deception, committed by giving to persons or things a false character.

It shall not be lawful to impose toll upon them.
Ezra vii.

Yet greatly did the Beast repine at those
Straunge hands, whose like till then he never bore,
Ne ever any durst till then impose.

Spenser's Faerie Queene. There was a thorough way made by the sword for the imposing of the laws upon them. Id. on Ireland. What good or evil is there under the sun, what action correspondent or repugnant unto the law which God hath imposed upon his creatures, but in or upon it God doth work, according to the law which himself hath eternally purposed to keep. Hooker.

According to your ladyship's impose
I am thus early come.

Shakspeare.

If a son do fall into a lewd action, the imputation, by your rule, should be imposed upon his father. Id.

The first imposition of names was grounded, among all nations, upon future good hope conceived of children. Camden. Taxes and imposts upon merchants do seldom good to the king's revenue; for that that he wins in the hundred, he loseth in the shire. Bacon.

From imposition of strict laws, to free Acceptance of large grace; from servile fear To filial; works of law, to works of faith. Milton. This cannot be allowed, except we impute that unto the first cause which we impose not on the second; or, what we deny unto nature, we impute unto nativity itself. Browne. The universities' sufferings might be manifested to all nations, and the imposers of these oaths might repent. Walton.

Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws, And by that justice hast removed the cause. Waller. The imposition of the name is grounded only upon the predominancy of that element, whose name is ascribed to it. Boyle.

Physicians and philosophers have suffered themselves to be so far imposed upon as to publish chymical experiments which they never tried.

Id.

Christianity hath hardly imposed any other laws upon us, but what are enacted in our natures, or are agreeable to the prime and fundamental laws of it. Tillotson

To tyrants others have their country sold, Imposing foreign lords for foreign gold. Dryden's Æneid.

Impose but your commands, This hour shall bring you twenty thousand hands, Dryden.

subject given me by any man. It was neither imposed on me, nor so much as the

Our poet thinks not fit

ld.

To impose upon you what he writes for wit. Id. The constraint of receiving and holding opinions by authority was rightly called imposition. Locke.

He that thinks the name centaur stands for some

real being, imposes on himself, and mistakes words for things. Id.

We know how successful the late usurper was, while his army believed him real in his zeal against kingship; but when they found out the imposture, upon his aspiring to the same himself, he was presently deserted, and never able to crown his usurped greatness with that title. South. Shame and pain, poverty and sickness, yea death and hell itself, are but the trophies of those fatal conquests got by that grand impostor, the devil, over the deluded sons of men. They were not simply imposeable on any particular man, farther than he was a member of some church. Hammond.

Id.

The second part of confirmation is the prayer or benediction of the bishop, made more solemn by the imposition of hands. Id.

On impious realms and barbarous kings impose Thy plagues, and curse them with such ills as those. Pope.

A greater load has been laid on us than we have been able to bear, and the grossest impositions have been submitted to, in order to forward the dangerous designs of a faction. Swift.

Let it not be made, contrary to its own nature, the occasion of strife, a narrow spirit, and unreasonable impositions on the mind and practice. Watts.

Form new legends,

And fill the world with follies and impostures. Irene. for she was one

Fit for the model of a statuary,

A race of mere impostors, when all's done.
Byron. Don Juan.

I see the colour comes Back to your cheek: Heaven send you strength to bear

What more may be imposed! Id. The Two Foscari.

IMPOSITION OF HANDS, a religious ceremony, by which a bishop lays his hand or hands on the head of a person, in ordination, confirmation, or in uttering a blessing. This practice is also frequently observed by dissenters at the ordination of their ministers, when all the ministers present place their hands on the head of him whom they are ordaining, while one of them prays for a blessing on him and on his future labors. It is also used by some dissenting churches on the the reception of each member, and as a mode of invoking the blessing and Spirit of God, grounded on Heb. vi. 2. They are not, however, agreed as to the propriety of this ceremony; nor do they consider it as an essential part of ordination. Imposition of hands was a Jewish ceremony, introduced not by any divine authority, but by custom; it being the practice among those people, whenever they prayed to God, for any person to lay their hands on his head. Our Saviour observed the same custom, both when he conferred his blessing on children, and when he cured the sick; adding prayer to the ceremony. The apostles likewise laid hands on those upon whom they bestowed the Holy Ghost. The Jewish priests observed the same custom when any one was received into their body. And the apostles themselves underwent the imposition of hands afresh when they entered upon any new undertaking. In the ancient church, imposition of hands was even practised on persons when they married, which custom the Abyssinians still observe.

IMPOSSIBLE, adj. › Fr. impossible; Lat. IMPOSSIBILITY, n. s. impossibilis. Not to be done or attained; impracticable; the state of being not feasible; that which is beyond our

power.

With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Mat. xix. 26. It was impossible that the state should continue quiet. 2 Mac. Of hir delite, or joies, one of the lest Were impossible to my wit to saie.

Chaucer. Troilus and Crescide.
For, trusteth wel, it is impossible
That any clerk wol speken good of wives,
(But if it be of holy seintes lives)
Ne of none other woman never the mo.

Id. Prologue to the Wif of Bathes Take. Though men do, without offence, wish daily that the affairs, which with evil success are past, might have fallen out much better; yet to pray that they may have been any other than they are, this being a manifest impossibility in itself, the rules of religion de not permit. Hooker. Admit all these impossibilities and great absurdities to be possible and convenient. Whitgifte