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Impeyan pheasant (ĭmpĭ�n fĕz�nt). [From Lady Impey, who attempted to naturalize the bird in England.] (Zoöl.) An Indian crested pheasant of the genus Lophophorus. Several species are known. Called also monaul, monal.
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☞ They are remarkable for the bright color and brilliant matallic hues of their plumage. The best known species (Lophophorus Impeyanus) has the neck of a brilliant metallic red, changing to golden yellow in certain lights.
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Imphee (ĭmfē), n. (Bot.) The African sugar cane (Holcus saccharatus), -- resembling the sorghum, or Chinese sugar cane.
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Impi (ĭmpĭ), n. [Zulu.] A body of Kaffir warriors; a body of native armed men. [South Africa]
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As early as 1862 he crossed assagais with and defeated a Matabili impi (war band). James Bryce.
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Impictured (ĭmpĭkt�rd; 135), a. Pictured; impressed. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Impierce (ĭmpērs), v. t. [Pref. im- in + pierce. Cf. .] To pierce; to penetrate. [Obs.] Drayton.
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Impierceable (ĭmpērsȧb'l) a. Not capable of being pierced; impenetrable. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Impiety (ĭmpī�t�), n.; pl. Impieties (ĭmpī�tĭz). [L. impietas, fr. impius impious; cf. F. impiété. See , .] 1. The quality of being impious; lack of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.
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2. An impious act; an act of wickedness.
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Those impieties for the which they are now visited. Shak.

Syn. -- Ungodliness; irreligion; unrighteousness; sinfulness; profaneness; wickedness; godlessness.
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Impignorate (ĭmpĭgn�rāt), v. t. [LL. impignoratus, p. pl of impignorare to pawn. See .] To pledge or pawn. [Obs.] Laing.
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Impignoration (ĭmpĭgn�rāshŭn), n. [LL. impignoratio: cf. F. impignoration.] The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned. [Obs.] Bailey.
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Imping (ĭmpĭng), n. [See to graft.] 1. The act or process of grafting or mending. [Archaic]
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2. (Falconry) The process of repairing broken feathers or a deficient wing.
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Impinge (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impinged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Impinging (?).] [L. impingere; pref. im- in + pangere to fix, strike; prob. akin to pacisci to agree, contract. See , and cf. .] To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to clash with; -- with on or upon.
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The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies. Sir I. Newton.
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But, in the present order of things, not to be employed without impinging on God's justice. Bp. Warburton.
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Impingement (?), n. The act of impinging.
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Impingent (?), a. [L. impingens, p. pr.] Striking against or upon.
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Impinguate (?), v. t. [L. impinguatus, p. p. of impinguare to fatten; pref. im- in + pinguis fat.] To fatten; to make fat. [Obs.] Bacon.
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Impinguation (?), n. The act of making fat, or the state of being fat or fattened. [Obs.]
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Impious (?), a. [L. impius; pref. im- not + pius piou. See .] Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language.
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When vice prevails, and impious men bear away,
The post of honor is a private station. Addison.

Syn. -- , , . Irreligious is negative, impious and profane are positive. An indifferent man may be irreligious; a profane man is irreverent in speech and conduct; an impious man is wickedly and boldly defiant in the strongest sense. Profane also has the milder sense of secular. C. J. Smith.

-- Impiously, adv. -- Impiousness, n.
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Impire (?), n. See . [Obs.] Huloet.
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impish (ĭmpĭsh), a. Having the qualities, or showing the characteristics, of an imp; naughtily or annoyingly playful; as, teasing and worrying with impish laughter.
Syn. -- elfish, elvish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish.
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Impishly, adv. In the manner of an imp.
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Impiteous (?), a. Pitiless; cruel. [Obs.]
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Implacability (?), n. [L. implacabilitas: cf. F. implacabilité.] The quality or state of being implacable.
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Implacable (?), a. [L. implacabilis; pref. im- not + placabilis: cf. F. implacable. See .] 1. Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince.
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I see thou art implacable. Milton.
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An object of implacable enmity. Macaulay.
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2. Incapable of being relieved or assuaged; inextinguishable. [R.]
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O! how I burn with implacable fire. Spenser.
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Which wrought them pain
Implacable, and many a dolorous groan. Milton.

Syn. -- Unappeasable; inexorable; irreconcilable; unrelenting; relentless; unyielding.
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Implacableness (?), n. The quality of being implacable; implacability.
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Implacably, adv. In an implacable manner.
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Implacental (?), a. (Zoöl.) Without a placenta, as marsupials and monotremes; nonplacental. -- n. A mammal having no placenta; a nonplacental mammal.
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Implacentalia (?), n. pl. [NL. See not, and .] (Zoöl.) A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed.
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Implant (?) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Implanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Implanting.] [Pref. im- in + plant: cf. F. implanter.] To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth.
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Minds well implanted with solid . . . breeding. Milton.
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Implantation (?), n. [Cf. F. implantation.] The act or process of implanting.
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Implate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Implated; p. pr. & vb. n. Implating.] To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.
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Implausibility (?), n. Lack of plausibility; the quality of being implausible.
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Implausible (?), a. [Pref. im- not + plausible: cf. F. implausible.] Not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed. “Implausible harangues.” Swift.

-- Implausibleness, n. -- Implausibly, adv.
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Impleach (?), v. t. To pleach; to interweave. [Obs.] Shak.
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Implead (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impleaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Impleading.] [Cf. .] (Law) To institute and prosecute a suit against, in court; to sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to impeach.
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Implead, v. i. To sue at law.
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Impleadable (?), a. Not admitting excuse, evasion, or plea; rigorous. [R.] T. Adams.
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Impleader (?), n. (Law) One who prosecutes or sues another.
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Impleasing (�), a. Unpleasing; displeasing. [Obs.] Overbury.
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Impledge (?), v. t. To pledge. Sir W. Scott.
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Implement (ĭmpl�m�nt), n. [LL. implementum accomplishment, fr. L. implere, impletum, to fill up, finish, complete; pref. im- in + plere to fill. The word was perh. confused with OF. empleier, emploier, to employ, F. employer, whence E. employ. See .] That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, tool, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war.
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Genius must have talent as its complement and implement. Coleridge.
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Implement, v. t. 1. To accomplish; to fulfill. [R.]
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Revenge . . . executed and implemented by the hand of Vanbeest Brown. Sir W. Scott.
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2. To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means of an implement or implements.
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The chief mechanical requisites of the barometer are implemented in such an instrument as the following. Nichol.
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3. (Scots Law) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.
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Implemental (?), a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, implements or their use; mechanical.
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Impletion (?), n. [L. impletio. See .] 1. The act of filling, or the state of being full. Sir T. Browne.
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2. That which fills up; filling. Coleridge.
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Implex (?), a. [L. implexus, p. p. of implectere to infold; pref. im- in + plectere to plait: cf. F implexe.] Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex.
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The fable of every poem is . . . 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 to good, or from good to bad. Addison.
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Implexion (?), n. [L. implexio.] Act of involving, or state of being involved; involution.
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Impliable (?), a. Not pliable; inflexible; unyielding.
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Implicate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Implicated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Implicating.] [L. implicatus, p. p. of implicare to involve; pref. im- in + plicare to fold. See , , and cf. , .] 1. To infold; to fold together; to interweave.
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The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley.
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2. To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; -- applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense; as, the evidence implicates many in this conspiracy; to be implicated in a crime, a discreditable transaction, a fault, etc.
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implicated adj. culpably involved; connected; -- of persons with respect to responsibility for events.
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implicating n. a charge that implicates someone (usually of wrongdoing).
Syn. -- implication.
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Implication (?), n. [L. implicatio: cf. F. implication.] 1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.
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Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. Boyle.
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2. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
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Whatever things, therefore, it was asserted that the king might do, it was a necessary implication that there were other things which he could not do. Hallam.
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implicational adj. arousing a mental association; evocative.
Syn. -- implicative, suggestive, suggestive of(predicate).
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Implicative (?), a. Tending to implicate.
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Implicatively, adv. By implication. Sir G. Buck.
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Implicit (?), a. [L. implicitus, p. p. of implicare to entwine, entangle, attach closely: cf. F. implicite. See .] 1. Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved. [Obs.] Milton.
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In his woolly fleece
I cling implicit. Pope.
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2. Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied; as, an implicit contract or agreement. South.
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3. Resting on another; trusting in the word or authority of another, without doubt or reserve; unquestioning; complete; as, implicit confidence; implicit obedience.
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Back again to implicit faith I fall. Donne.
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Coloq. Implicit function . (Math.) See under .
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Implicitly (?), adv. 1. In an implicit manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence.
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Not to dispute the methods of his providence, but humbly and implicitly to acquiesce in and adore them. Atterbury.
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2. By implication; impliedly; as, to deny the providence of God is implicitly to deny his existence. Bentley.
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Implicitness, n. State or quality of being implicit.
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Implicity (?), n. Implicitness. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
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Implied (?), a. Virtually involved or included; involved in substance; inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or expressed. See .
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Impliedly (?), adv. By implication or inference. Bp. Montagu.
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implode (?), v. i. To burst inward; contrasting with explode.
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Imploded (?), a. (Phon.) Formed by implosion. Ellis.
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Implodent (?), n. (Phon.) An implosive sound. Ellis.
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Imploration (?), n. [L. imploratio: cf. OF. imploration. See .] The act of imploring; earnest supplication. Bp. Hall.
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Implorator (?), n. One who implores. [Obs.]
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Mere implorators of unholy suits. Shak.
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Imploratory (?), a. Supplicatory; entreating. [R.] Carlyle.
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Implore (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Implored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Imploring.] [L. implorare; pref. im- in + plorare to cry aloud. See .] To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to pray to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urgency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought.
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Imploring all the gods that reign above. Pope.
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I kneel, and then implore her blessing. Shak.

Syn. -- To beseech; supplicate; crave; entreat; beg; solicit; petition; prey; request; adjure. See .
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Implore, v. i. To entreat; to beg; to prey.
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Implore, n. Imploration. [Obs.] Spencer.
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Implorer (?), n. One who implores.
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Imploring, a. That implores; beseeching; entreating. -- Imploringly, adv.
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Implosion (?), n. [Formed by substitution of pref. im- in for pref. ex- in explosion.] 1. A bursting inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.
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2. Hence: The inward-moving detonation wave cause by detonation of explosives arrayed spherically around a core; -- a technique used in atomic bombs to compress fissionable material to allow a chain reaction time to produce an explosion of the fissionable material.
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3. (Phon.) A sudden compression of the air in the mouth, simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the organs in uttering p, t, or k, at the end of a syllable (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§159, 189); also, a similar compression made by an upward thrust of the larynx without any accompanying explosive action, as in the peculiar sound of b, d, and g, heard in Southern Germany. H. Sweet.
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Implosive (?), a. (Phon.) Formed by implosion. -- n. An implosive sound, an implodent. -- Implosively, adv. H. Sweet.
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Implumed (?), a. Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless. [R.] Drayton.
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Implunge (?), v. t. To plunge. Fuller.
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Impluvium (?), n. [L., fr. impluere to rain into; pref. im- in + pluere to rain.] (Arch.) In Roman dwellings, a cistern or tank, set in the atrium or peristyle to recieve the water from the roof, by means of the compluvium; generally made ornamental with flowers and works of art around its birm.
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Imply (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Implied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Implying.] [From the same source as employ. See , , and cf. , .] 1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. [Obs.] “His head in curls implied.” Chapman.
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2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting.
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Where a malicious act is proved, a malicious intention is implied. Bp. Sherlock.
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When a man employs a laborer to work for him, . . . the act of hiring implies an obligation and a promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward for his services. Blackstone.
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3. To refer, ascribe, or attribute. [Obs.]
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Whence might this distaste arise?
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If [from] neither your perverse and peevish will.
To which I most imply it. J. Webster.

Syn. -- To involve; include; comprise; import; mean; denote; signify; betoken. See .
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Impoison (?), v. t. [Cf. .] To poison; to imbitter; to impair.
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Impoisoner (?), n. A poisoner. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
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Impoisonment (?), n. [Cf. .] The act of poisoning or impoisoning. [Obs.] Pope.

{ Impolarily (?), Impolarly (?), } adv. Not according to or in, the direction of the poles. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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Impolicy (?), n. The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.
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Impolite (?), a. [L. impolitus unpolishied, pref. im- not + politus, p. p. of polire to polish, refine. See .] Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude. -- Impolitely, adv. -- Impoliteness, n.
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Impolitic (?), a. [Pref. im- not + politic; cf. F. impolitique.] Not politic; contrary to, or wanting in, policy; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; inexpedient; as, an impolitic ruler, law, or measure.
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The most unjust and impolitic of all things, unequal taxation. Burke.

Syn. -- Indiscreet; inexpedient; undiplomatic.
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