a ing case may be confidered as an example. A gen- -The impotent poor might be reliev'd, and the tleman has had a stricture in the urethra for many idle forc'á to labour. Temple. 3. Without power years, for which he has frequently used a bougie, of restraint. [ Animi impotens. ]— but of late has neglected it. He has had no con. With jealous eyes at distance she had seen, nection with women for a considerable time, be- Whisp'ring with Jove, the filver-footed queen ; ing afraid of the consequences. He has often in Then impotent of tongue, her filence broke, his sleep involuntary emiffions, which generally Thus turbulent in rattling tone she spoke. Drgd. awaken him at the paroxysm; but what surprises 4. Without power of propagation. He told beau him most is, that often he has such without any Prim, 'who is thought impotent, that his mistress femen paffing forwards through the penis, which would not have him, because he is a sloven, and makes him think that at those times it goes back. had committed a rape. Tatler. wards into the bladder. This is not always the * IMPOTENTLY. adv. [from impotent.] case, for at other times the femen passes forwards. without power. At the time the semen seems to pass into the blad. Proud Cæsar, 'midst triumphal cars, der, he has the erection, the dream, and is The spoils of nations, and the pomp of wars, awaked with the fame mode of action, the same Ignobly vain, and impotently great, sensation, and the same pleasure, as when it par- Shew': Rome her Cato's figure drawn in state. ses through the urethra, whether dreaming or Pope. waking. My opinion is, that the same irritation * To IMPOUND. v. a. [in and pound. See takes place in the bulb of the urethra without the Pound.] 1. To inclose as in a pound; to fhut semen, that takes place there when the semen en- in; to confine.-The great care was rather how ters in consequence of all the natural preparatory to impound the rebels, that none of them might fteps, whereby the very iame actions are excited escape, than that any doubt was made to panas if it came into the passage: from which one quish them. Bacon. 2. To shut up in a pinfold. would suppose, that either femen is not secreted; England or if it be, that a retrograde motion takes place Hath taken and impounded as a stray in the actions of the acceleratores urinæ. But if The king. Shak. the first be the case, then we may suppose, that -Seeing him wander about, I took him up for a in the natural state the actions of those muscles do stray, and impounded him, with intention to restore not arise fimply from the stimulus of the semen in him to the right owner. Dryden. the part, but from their action being a termina- * TO IMPOWER. See EMPOWER. tion of a preceding one making part of a series of IMPRACTICABLE. (adj. impra&icable, Fr. actions. Thus they may depend upon the fric. in and practicable.) 1. Not to be performed; untion, or the imagination of a friction, on the pe. feasible; impoffible.—Had there not been ftill renis; the testicles not doing their part, and the maining bodies, the legitimate offsprings of the spasm in such cases arising from the friction and antediluvian earth, 'twould have been an extravanot from the secretion. In many of those cases of gant and impra&icable undertaking to have gone irregularity, when the erection is not strong, it about to determine any thing cc cerning it. Woodfall go off without the emision; and at other ward. To preach up the necesity of that which times an emission shall happen almost without an our experience tells us is utterly impraticable, erection; but these arise not from debility, but were to fright mankind with the terrible prof. affections of the mind. In many of the preceding pect of universal damnation. Rogers. 2. Untraccases, washing the penis, scrotum, and perinæum, table; unmanageable ; stubborn.with cold water, is often of service, and to ren. The fierce impra&icable nature der it colder than we find it in some seasons of the Is govern'd by a dainty-finger'd girl. Rowe. year, common falt may be added to it, and the IMPRACTICABLENESS. n. f. [from imparts washed when the salt is almost dissolved." practicable.] 1. Impossibility. I do not know a IMPOTENT. (adv. impotent, Fr. impotens, greater mark of an able minister than that of Lat.] 1. Weak; feeble; wanting force; wanting rightly adapting the several faculties of men, nor power.---We that are strong must bear the imbe.. is any thing more to be lamented than the imprace cility of the impotent, and not please ourselves. ticableness of doing this. Swift. 2. Untractable. Hooker. ness; stubbornness. Yet wealth is impotent TO IMPRECATE. v. a. (imprecor, Lat.) To To gain dominion, or to keep it gain'd. Miltox. call for evil upon himself or others. Although in dreadful whirls we hung, (1.) * IMPRECATION. n. f. limprecatio, Lat. High on the broken wave, imprecation, from imprecate.] Curse; prayer by I knew thou wert not low to hear, which any evil is wished to another or himself.Nor impotent to save Addison's Spectator. My mother Mall the horrid furies raise 2. Disabled by nature or disease. In those porches With imprecations. Chapman, lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, -Sir John Hotham, uncursed by any imprecation and withered. Fobn v. 3-There sat a certain man, of mine, paid his own and his eldest son's heads, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mo. King Charles ther's womb, who never had walked. A&s xiv With imprecations thus he fill'd the air, I have learn'd that fearful commenting And angry Neptune heard th' unrighteous Is leaden servitor to dull delay; pray'r. Pope. Delay leads impotent and snail-pac'd beggary. (2.) IMPRECATIONS, in antiquity. The an, Shak. cients invoked the Furies with prayers and pieces VOL. XII. Part I. F . a to destroy their enemies. See DiRÆ, EUMENIDES, Derham's Physico-Theology. 3. (Impregnation, Fr. and Furiæ. Saturation. Ainsworth. * IMPRECATORY. adj. [from imprecate.] (2.) IMPREGNATION. See CONCEPTION, Øiv. Containing wishes of evil. (3.) IMPREGNATION, in pharmacy, is used for * TO IMPREGN. v.a. (in and prægno, Latin.] communicating the virtues of one medicine to anTo fill with young; to fill with any matter or other, whether by mixture, coction, digestion, &c, quality; to make pregnant. * IMPREJUDICATE. adj. (in, pra, and judico, In her ears the found Lat.] Unprejudiced; not prepofrelied ; impartial. Yet rung of his perfuafive words, impregn'd - The solid reason of one man with imprejudicate With reason to her seeming. Milton. apprehenfions, begety as firm a belief as the au: Th’ unfruitful rock itself impregn’d by thee, thority or aggregated testimony of many hund. Forms lucid ftones. Thomson. reds. Brown, *IMPREGNABLE. adj. (imprenable, Fr.) 1. Not * IMPREPARATION. n. f. [in and prepara, to be formed; not to be taken. Two giants tion.] Unpreparedness; want of preparation.kept themselves in a castle, feated upon the top Impreparation and unreadiness when they find in of a rock, impregnable, because there was no com- us, they turn it to the foothing up of themselves, ing to it but by one narrow path, where one man's Honker. force was able to keep down an army. Sidney.-- * IMPRESS. n. f. [from the verb.] 1. Mark Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, made by pressure. -Which he hath given for fence impregnable, This weak impress of love is as a figure And with their helps alone defend ourselves. Trench'd in-ice, which with an hour's beat Shak. Diffolves to water. Shak. Halt thou not him, and all They have taken the imprepes of the insides Which he calls his, inclosed with a wall of these tells with that exquisite niceness, as Of ftrength impregnable?: Sandys. to expref3 even the finest lineainents of them. There the capitol thou seest, Woodward., 2. Effects of one subfiance on anAbove the rest lifting his fately head other.-How objects are represented to myself On the Tarpeian rock, her citadel I cannot be ignorant ; but in wliat manner they Impregnoble. Milton. are received, and what isprelles they make upon 2. Unihaken ; unmoved; unaffected ; invincible. the different organs of another, he' only knows -The man's affectious remain wholly uncon- that feels them. Glanville. 13, Mark of dikinc cerned and impregnable ; juk like a rock, which, tion; stamp.--God, surveying the words of the being plied continually by the waves, still throws creation, leaves us this general imprefs or chathem back again, but is not at all moved. South. racer upon them, that they were exceeding good. * IMPREGNABLY. adv. [from impregnable.] South. 4. Device; motto.In such a manner as to defy force or hoftility.-A To defcribe th' emblazon'd shields, calle strongly feated on a high rock joineth by an Impreles quaint, caparisons, and fteeds, ifthmus to the land, and is impregnably fortified. Bales, and tinsels trappings. Milton. Sandys. 5. Act of forcing into service ; compulfion; seiz* TO IMPREGNATE. v. a. (in and pregno, ure. Now commonly press.--Ajax was here the Lat.) s. To fill with young ; to make prolific. voluntary, and you as under an impress. Sbake-Hermaphrodites, although they include the speare's Troilus and Crepida.parts of both sexes, cannot impregnate themselves. Why such impress of Mip-wrights, whose fore Brown.-Christianity is of so prolific a nature, so task apt to impregnate the hearts and lives of its pro- Does not divide the Sunday from the week? selytes, that it is hard to imagine that any branch Shak. Mould want a due fertility. Decay of Piety. Your hips are not well mann'd; {Impregner, Fr.] To fill; to saturate. In the fol. Your mariners are muliteers, reapers, people lowing examples, imprégnate may be perhaps an Ingroft by swift impress. adjective * TO IMPRESS. v. a. lim"refium, Lat.] 1. To Impregnate, from their loins they shed print by pressure; to stamp: -A nimy juice. Dryden. When God from earth form') Adam in the With native earth their blood the monster's East, mix'd; Hc his own image on the clay impreft. Denbasi. The blood, endu'd with animating heat, The conquering chief his foo: imprefl Did in the impregnate earth new fons beget. On the trong neck of that destructive beaft. Dryden. Dryder (1.) * IMPREGNATION. n. S. (from impreg- 2. To fix deep. We mould dwell upon the arnate.] 1. The act of making prolific; fecunda- guments, and impress the motives of persuasion tion. They ought to refer matters unto counsel- upon our own hearts, 'till we feel the force of lors, which is the first begetting or impregnation ; them. Waits. but when they are elaborate in the womb of their 3. To mark, as impressed by a stamp.-couns I, and grow ripe to be brought forth, then So foul and ugly, that exceeding fear they take the matter back into their own hands. Their visages impres, when they approached Bacon. 2. That with which any thing is impreg Spenser. nated.-What could implant in the body such pe- 4. To force into service. This is generally now culiar impregnation's, as should have such power ? spoken and written press. Sbak. Dear. Macbeth fhall never vanquish'd be, until Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Shak. coal trade, and giving fecurity to go to the fishing next feafon. (1.) * IMPRESSION. n. f. [impreffio, Lat. impreffion, Fr.] 1. The act of preffing one body upon another.-Senfation is fuch an impreffion or motion, made in some part of the body, as produces fome perception in the understanding. Locke. Mark made by preffure: ftamp. 24. Shak. Like to a chaos, or unlick'd bear-whelp, That carries no impreffion like the dam. 3. Image fixed in the mind.-Were the offices of religion ftript of all the externa! decencies, they would not makea due impression on the mind. Atter. * IMPRESSIBLE. adj. [in and preffum, Lat.] What may be impreffed.-The difference of imble and not impressible, figurable and not figurable, are plebian notions. Bacon. IMPRESSING OF SEAMEN. The power of impreffing feamen for the fea fervice by the king's commiffion, has been a matter of great difpute, and fubmitted to with great reluctance. Sir Michael Fofter attempts to prove, that the practice ot impreffing, and granting powers to the admiralty for that purpose, is of very ancient date, and has been uniformly continued by a regular eries of precedents to the prefent time: whence te concludes it to be part of the common law. The difficulty arifes hence, that no ftatute has exprefsly declared this power to be in the crown, though many of them ftrongly imply it. The tute a Ric. II. c. 4. fpeaks of mariners being reted and retained for the king's fervice, as of a thing well known, and practifed without difpate; and provides a remedy against their running ay. By a later ftatute, if any waterman, who the river Thames, fhall hide himself during the execution of any commiffion of preffing for king's fervice, he is liable to heavy penalties. (2.) IMPRESSION (§ 1. def. 3.) is applied to the by another, (5 Elix. c. 5.) no fisherman fhall be fpecies of objects which are fupposed to make take by the queen's commiffion to ferve as a ma- fome mark on the fenfes, the mind, and the mer; but the commiffion fhall be firft brought to mory. The Peripatetics affert, that bodies emit uftices of the peace, inhabiting near the fea fpecies refembling them, which are conveyed to road where the mariners are to be taken, to the the common fenforium, and they are rendered intest that the juftices may choose out and re- telligible by the active intellect; and, when thus fuch a number of able-bodied men, as in fpiritualized, are called EXPRESSIONS, or express * the commiffion are contained, to serve her majefty. fpecies, as being expreffed from others. And by others, efpecial protections are allowed to en in particular circumftances, to prevent from being impreffed. Ferrymen are alfo to be privileged from being impreffed, at comaw. All which do moit evidently imply a power of impreffing to refide fomewhere; and if where, it muft, from the fpirit of our conftion, as well as from the frequent mention of king's commiffion, refide in the crown alone. The method of manning the navy can be confired as only defenfible from public neceflity, to The falfe reprefentations of the kingdom's enemies had made fome impreffion in the mind of the fucceffor. Swift. 4. Efficacious agency; operation; influence.--The king had made him high sheriff of Suffex, that he might the better make impression upon that county. Clarendon.-We lie open to the impreffions of flattery, which we admit without fcruple, because we think we deferve it. Atterbury.-Univerfal gravitation is above all mechanifm, and proceeds from a divine energy and impreffion. Bentley-There is a real knowledge of material things, when the thing itself, and the real action and impression thereof on our fenfes, is perceived. Cheyne. 5. Effect of an attack.-Such à defeat of near two hundred horfe, feconded with two thoufand foot, may furely endure a comparifon with any of the braveft impressions in ancient times. Wotton. 6. Edition; number printed at once: one courfe of printing.-To be diftracted with many opinions, makes men to be of the laft. impreffion, and full of change. Bacon.-For ten impreffions, which his works have had in fo many years, at prefent a hundred books are scarcely purchafed once a twelvemonth. Dryden. all private confiderations muft give way. The following perfons are exempted from being prefed: apprentices for three years; the malmate, and carpenter, and one man for every 10 tona, of veffels employed in the coal trade; der 18 years of age, and above 55; foreign merchant fhips and privateers; tandmen betag themfelves to fea for two years; feamen in the Greenland fishery, and harpooners employ#t, during the interval of the fishing feafon, in the (3.) IMPRESSION (§ 1. def. 6.) denotes the edition of a book, regarding the mechanical part only; whereas EDITION takes in alfo the care of the editor, who corrected or augmented the copy, adding notes, &c. to render the work more useful. * IMPRESSURE. n. f. [from imprefs.] The mark made by preffure; the dint; the impreffion. Lean but upon a rush, Shak. IMPRIMATUR, a Latin verb, fignifying, Let it be printed, much ufed on books printed in the 16th and 17th centuries, introducing copies of warrants for their publication, figned by the Lord Chancellor or other public officer, before the liberty of the prefs, that invaluable privilege of Britons, was thoroughly understood, and acknowledged.' Pope or Swift, (we forget which) ufes the word as a noun, in the following lines: F2 "As “ As if some learned dunce had said 'Tis right, out of their long imprisonment, and loosing the fet. " And imprimatur usher'd it to light.” ters of their souls. Watts. * To IMPRINT. v. a. (imprimer, Fr.) 1. To (2.) IMPRISONMENT. No person is to be imprimark upon any substance by pressure. One and foned but as the law directs, either by the command the same seal imprinted upon pieces of wax of dif- or order of a court of record, or by lawful warrant; ferent colours. Holder's Elements of Speech.-Hav- or the king's process, on which one may be law. ing surveyed the image of God in the foul of man, fully detained. At common law, a person could we are not to omit those characters of majesty not be imprisoned unless he were guilty of some that God imprinted upon the body. South.- force and violence, for which his body was sub She amidst his spacious meadows flows ; ject to imprisonment, as one of the highest execu. Inclines her urn upon his fatten'd lands, tions. Where the law gives power to imprison, And sees his num'rous herds imprint her fands. in such case it is justifiable, provided he that does Prior. it in pursuance of a statute, exactly pursues the 2. To stamp words upon paper by the use of statute in the manner of doing it; for otherwise it types. 3. To fix on the mind or memory. There will be deemed false imprisonment, and of conseis a kind of conveying of effectual and imprinting quence it is unjustifiable. Every warrant for compassages, amongst compliments, which is of fingu- mitment for imprisoning a person, ought to run, jar ule. Bacon. We have all those ideas in our “ till delivered by due course of law," and not understandings which we can make the objects of “ until farther order ;" which has been held ill: our thoughts, without the help of those senlible and thus it also is, where one is imprisoned on a qualities which first imprinted them. Locke.-Re- warrant not mentioning any cause for which he tention is the power to revive again in our minds is committed. See ARREST, Ś 1, 2; and Com. those ideas which, after imprinting, have disap- MITMENT, § 2. peared. Locke.—By familiar acquaintance he has (3.) IMPRISONMENT, FALSE. Every confinegot the ideas of those two different things distinctly ment of the person is an imprisonment, whether imprinted on his mind. Locke. 4. TO IMPRINT in it be in a common prison or in a private house, or is less proper. When we set before our eyes a in the stocks, or even by forcibly detaining one round globe, the idea imprinted in our mind is of in the public streets. Unlawful or falje imprisona flat circle variously shadowed. Locke. ment, consists in such confinement or detention * TO IMPRISON. v.a. (emprisoner, Fr. in and without sufficient authority: which authority may prison.) To shut up; to confine; to keep from' arise either from some process from the courts of liberty; to restrain in place. juftice; or from some warrant from a legal power le imprison'd was in chains remediless, to commit, under his hand and seal, and expres. For that Hyppolytus' rent corse he did redress. fing the cause of such commitment*; or from tome Spenser. Other special cause warranted, for the necessity of Now we are in the street, he first of all , the thing, either by common law or act of parlia. Improvidently proud, creeps to the wall; ment; such as the arresting of a felon by a priAnd so imorison'd and hemm'd in by me, vate person without warrant, the IMPRESSING of Sells for a little state his liberty. Donne. mariners for the public service, or the apprehendTry to imprison the refiftless wind; ing of waggoners for misbehaviour in the public So swift is guilt, so hard to be confin'd. Dryd. highways. False imprisonment also may arise by -If a man imprisons himself in his closet, and em. executing a lawful warrant or process at an unlaw. ploys reason to find out the nature of the corpo. ful time, as on a Sunday; or in a place privileged real world, without experiments, he will frame a from arrests, as in the verge of the king's court. scheme of chimeras. Watts. It is not improbable, The remedy is of two sorts; the one removing that all the virtual heat in the juices of vegetables, the injury, the other making fatisfa&tion for it . metals, and minerals, may be owing to the action The means of removing the actual injury of falle of the imprisoned rays. Cheyne. imprisonment are fourfold. 1. By writ of MAIN. (1.). * IMPRISONMENT. n. S. [emprisonne- PRIZE. 2. By writ De OTIO ET ATIA. 3. By writ mont, Fr.from imprison.] Confinement; clausure ; De Homine' REPLEGIANDO. 4. By writ of Ha. ftate of being shut in prison. It may be written BEAS CORPUS. See those articles. The satisfactory emprisonment. remedy for this injury of false imprisonment, is His finews waxen weak and raw, by an action of trespass vi et armis, usually called Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. an action of false imprisonment; which is generally, Spenfer. and almost unavoidably, accompanied with a Which shall I first bewail, charge of assault and battery allo; and therein Thy bondage or lost fight? the party shall recover damages for the injuries he Thou art become, O worst imprisonment ! has received ; and also the defendant is, as for all The dungeon of thyself. Milton. other injuries committed with force, or vi et ar. From retentive cage mis, liable to pay a fine to the king for the violaWhen fullen Philomel escapes, her notes tion of the public peace. She varies, and of paft imprisonment * IMPROBABILITY. n. f. [from improbable.) Sweetly complains. Philips. Unlikelihood ; difficult to be believed. The dif-Count Serini, ftill close prisoner in this castle, ficulty, and the improbability of attempting this lost his fenses by his long imprisonment and afflic- fuccessfully, is great. Hammond.- As to the im tions. Addison. It is well if they don't fix the probabilities of a spirit appearing, I boldly apfwer brand of herefy on the man who is leading them him, that a heroic poet is not tied to the bare representation representation of what is true, or exceeding pro. when the church land is in the hands of a lay. bable. Dryden. man, and an appropriation is when it is in the * IMPROBABLE. adj. [improbable, Fr. impro- bands of a bishop, college, or religious house, babilis, Lat. in and probable.] Unlikely; incredible. though sometimes these terms are confounded. -This account of party patches will appear im. Ayliffe.Having an impropriation in his estate, be probable to those who live at a distance from the took a course to dispose of it for the augmentation fashionable world. Addison. of the vicarage. Spelman. * IMPROBABLY. adv. (from improbable.) 1. (2.) IMPROPRIATION, in ecclesiastical law. See Without likelihood. 2. In a manner not to be ap- APPROPRIATION, $ 2. proved. Obsolete.-Aristotle tells us, if a drop * IMPROPRIATOR. n. f. [from impropriate.) of wine be put into ten thousand measures of wa. A layman that has the possession of the lands of ter, the wine being overpowered, will be turned the church.~Where the vicar leafes his glebe, the into water: he speaks very improbably. Bayle. tenant must pay the great tythes to the rector or * TO IMPROBATE. v. a. [in and probo, Lat.) impropriator. Azlife. Not to approve. Ainsworth. * IMPROPRIÉTY. n. improprieté French; (1.) * IMPROBATION. n. 1: (improbatio, Lat. improprius, Lat.] Upfitness; unsuitableness; inimprobation, Fr.) Act of disallowing. Ainsworth. accuracy; want of justice. These mighty ones, (2.) IMPROBATION, in Scots law, an action whose ambition could suffer them to be called brought for setting any deed or writing aside up- gods, would never be fattered into immortality; on the head of forgery. but the proudeft have been convinced of the im * IMPROBITY.n.s. (improbitas, improbus, La- propriety of that appellation. Brown.-Many gross tin. Want of honesty ; dimonefty; baleness. He improprieties, however authorised by practice, was perhaps excommunicable, yea, and cast out ought to be discarded. Swift. for notorious improbity. Hooker.-We balance * IMPROSPEROUS. adj. [in and prosperous.] the improbity of the one with the improbity. L'ES- Unhappy; unfortunate ; not successful.--This trange. method is in the design probable, how improsper, TO IMPROLIFICATE. v. a. (in and proli- ous foever the wickedness of men hath rendered fick.) To impregnate; to fecundate. A word the success of it. Hammond.- Our pride seduces not used.-A difficulty in eggs is how the fperm us at once into the guilt of bold, and punifhment of the cock improlificates, and makes the oval con. of improsperous rebels. Decay of Piety.-ception fruitful. Brown. Seven revolving years are wholly run, IMPROMPTU, a Latin word frequently used Since the improsperous voyage we begun. Drgd. among the French, and sometimes in English, to * IMPROSPEROUSLY. adv. (from improperfignify a piece made 'EXTEMPORE, or off-band, ous.] Unhappily; unsuccessfully; with ill fortune. without any previous meditation, by mere force - This experiment has been but very improsperand vivacity of imagination, oufy attempted. Bogle. * IMPROPER. adj. (impropre, French; im- IMPROVABLE. adj. [from improve.) Capaproprius, Latin.) 1. Not well adapted; unquali- ble of being advanced from a good to a better fied. As every science requires a peculiar genius, ftate; capable of melioration.-Adventures in so likewise there is a genius peculiarly improper knowledge are laudable, and the essays of weaker for every one. Burnet. 2. Unfit; not conducive heads afford improvable hints unto better. Brown. to the right end.-The methods used in an origi. -We have stock enough, and that too of so im. nal disease would be very improper in a gouty case. provable a nature, that is, capable of infinite ad. Arbuthnot... 3. Not just ; not accurate. vancement. Decay of Piety-Man is accommodaHe disappear'd, was rarified ; ted with moral principles, improvable by the exFor 'tis improper speech to fay he dy'd: ercise of his faculties. Hale.-Animals are not imHe was exhai'd. Dryden. provable beyond their proper genius: a dog will * IMPROPERLY. adv. (from improper.] s. never learn to mew, nor a cat to bark. Grew.-I Not fitly; incongruously. 2. Not juftly; not ac. have a fine spread of improvable lands, and am alcurately ready planting woods and draining marshes. Addis. Improperly we measure life by breath; * ÍŇPROŇABLENESS. 1. . [from improveSuch do not truly live who merit death. Dryd. ble.) Capableness of being made better, - They assuring me of their affiftance in correct- * IMPROVABLY. adv. (from improvable.) ing my faults where I spoke improperly, I was en. In a manner that admits of melioration. couraged. Dryden. (1.) *TO IMPROVE. v.a. (in and probus. Quas * TO IMPROPRIATE. v. a. [in and proprius.] probum facere. Skinner.) To advance any thing 1. To convert to private use; to seize to himself. nearer to perfection; to raise from good to bet-For the pardon of the rest, the king thought it ter. We amend a bad, but improve a good thing. pot fit it hould pass by parliament; the better, - I love not to improve the honour of the living being matter of grace, to impropriate the thanks by impairing that of the dead. Denbam. to himself. Bacon. 2. To put the possessions Heaven seems improv'd with a superior ray, of the church into the hands of laicks.-Mre And the bright arch reflects a double day. Pope. Gullton being poffeffed of the impropriate parson- 2. [in and prove; improuver, French ; improbo, age of Bardwell in Suffolk, did procure from the To disprove.) Now difused. Though the pro, king leave to annex the same to the vicarage. phet Jeremy was unjustly accused, yet doth not Spelman that improve any thing that I have said. Whitgifte, (1.) • IMPROPRIATION. n. S. (from impro- (2.) * TO IMPROVE. V. n. To advance in goodpriate.) An impropriation is properly so called aeloo We take care to improve in our frugality, and a a |