Dictionary: IMPH – IMPO

• IMPH!
int. 1844 Sc. – well? really, yes, hm!  
 
• IMPHRYGIATE
vb. 1592 obs. rare – to embroider, to work in embroidery
 
• IMPIATE
vb. 1623 obs. rare – to pollute, to defile  
 
• IMPIATION
n. 1658 obs. – defilement  
 
• IMPICATE
vb. 1623 obs. rare  – to cover with pitch  
 
• IMPIDENT
adj. 1. 1827 Sc. – impudent  
adj. 2. Bk1902 Eng. dial. – in good spirits  
 
• IMPIGNERATE
vb. a1639 chiefly Sc. – to place in pawn; to pledge, to pawn, to mortgage 
 
• IMPIGNORATE
adj. 1548 obs. – pledged, pawned, mortgaged
vb. a1639 chiefly Sc. – to place in pawn; to pledge, to pawn, to mortgage
 
• IMPIGNORATION
n. 1598 – pledging, pawning, mortgage  
 
• IMPIGRITY
n. 1623 obs. rare – quickness, diligence  
 
• IMPIGROUS
adj. 1656 obs. rare – diligent, quick, ready, not slow  
 
• IMPILLOR
vb. 1645 obs. rare – to put in the pillory
 
• IMPIMPI
n. 1960s S. Afr. sl. – a police informer  
 
• IMPINGENT
adj. 1759 rare – impinging
 
• IMPINGUATE
vb. 1620 obs. – to make fat; to fatten  
 
• IMPINGUATING
adj. 1620 obs.- fattening
 
• IMPINGUATION
n. 1640 obs. – fattening; becoming fat
 
• IMPINGUE
vb. 1623 obs. rare – to make fat
 
• IMPITEOUS
adj. 1877 – ruthless, pitiless  
 
• IMPITTENCE
n. 1896 Eng. dial. – impudence, impertinence, forwardness  
 
• IMPITY
adj. 1967 Amer. dial. – impudent, uppity  
 
• IMPIXLOCATED
adj. 1930s sl. – tipsy  
 
• IMPIXOCATED
adj. Bk2009 sl. – drunk  
 
• IMPLACACY
n. c1660 obs. rare – unappeased state or condition
 
• IMPLAIN
vb. c1420 obs. rare – to make smooth with plaster; to plaster smooth 
 
• IMPLANE
vb. 1623 obs. – to deceive
 
• IMPLANITUDE
n. 1597 obs. – unevenness, unlevelness
 
• IMPLANTATE
adj. 1650 obs. rare – implanted
 
• IMPLAUSIBLE
adj. 1602 obs. – not worthy of applause; personally unacceptable  
 
• IMPLEACH
vb. 1597 poetic usage, rare – to entwine, to interweave  
 
• IMPLEASING
adj. 1602 obs. rare – unpleasing, unpleasant
 
• IMPLEFY
vb. 1623 obs. rare – to fill  
 
• IMPLEMENT
n. 1. 1632 obs. rare – something necessary to make a thing complete; an essential or important constituent part
n. 2. 1690 sl. – a fool easily engaged in any enterprise, though difficult or dangerous  
vb. 1714 Sc. obs. – to fulfil, to perform
 
• IMPLESE
vb. c1375 Sc. obs. – to please
 
• IMPLETE
adj. 1598 obs. – filled, replete with something  
vb. 1862 US – to fill  
 
• IMPLETION
n. 1. 1583 – the act of filling, the condition of being filled; fullness  
n. 2. 1615 – fulfilment, accomplishment  
 
• IMPLETIVE
adj. 1647 obs. rare – having the quality of filling
 
• IMPLETORY
adj. 1647 obs. rare – characterized by fulfilment
 
• IMPLEX
adj. 1710 obs. rare – involved; having a complicated plot
vb. 1635 obs. rare – to entwine  
 
• IMPLEXED
adj. a1619 obs. – involved, complicated
 
• IMPLEXION
n. 1678 obs. rare – complication, intertwining
 
• IMPLEXURE
n. 1578 obs. rare – an enfolding, a fold
 
• IMPLIABLE
adj. a1734 rare – not pliable; inflexible
 
• IMPLIAL
n. 1846 rare – an act of implying; implication
 
• IMPLIANCE
n. 1677 obs. rare – the act of implying; implication  
 
• IMPLICAMENT
n. c1450 obs. rare – entanglement
 
• IMPLICANCY
n. 1638 obs. rare – entanglement, confusion; contradiction of terms
 
• IMPLICATE
adj. 1. 1536 rare – intertwined, twisted together
adj. 2. 1555 obs. – involved, intricate
n. 1. 1638 obs. –  entanglement, confusion
n. 2. 1881 – that which is implied or involved  
vb. 1. 1610 – to intertwine; to wreathe, to twist, or knit together; to entwine, to entangle  
vb. 2. 1625 obs. – to entangle mentally, to confuse
 
• IMPLICATELY
adv. c1555 obs. – by implication
 
• IMPLICATENESS
n. 1685 obs. rare – intricacy
 
• IMPLICATIVE
adj. 1602 – tending to imply or implicate  
n. 1589 obs. rare – that which implies; a statement or writing implying something more than it expressly states
 
• IMPLICATIVELY
adv. 1579 – by implication  
 
• IMPLICATORY
adj. 1642 obs. rare – of entangling nature or character
 
• IMPLICIT
adj. 1608 obs. – entangled, entwined, folded, or twisted together; involved
 
• IMPLICITLY
adv. 1635 obs. – in an involved or confused manner
 
• IMPLICITY
n. 1602 obs. rare – entanglement, complication, involution
 
• IMPLIFY
vb. Bk1902 Eng. dial. – to implicate  
 
• IMPLING
n. 1780 rare – a little imp
 
• IMPLOD
vb. 1609 obs. rare – to cause to plod, to involve in toilsome labour
 
• IMPLORABLE
adj. 1535 obs. – lamentable; deplorable
 
• IMPLORATION
n. 1607 obs. rare – deploring; lamentation
 
• IMPLORATOR
n. 1602 obs. rare – one who implores or supplicates
 
• IMPLORATORY
adj. 1832 rare – of imploring or beseeching nature
 
• IMPLORE
n. 1590 obs. rare – an act of imploring; imploration, entreaty  
 
• IMPLOREMENT
n. 1611 obs. rare – imploration
 
• IMPLOY
vb. c1460 obs. – to employ 
 
• IMPLOYABLE
adj. 1603 obs. rare – inflexible
 
• IMPLOYMENT
n. 1598 obs. rare – implication, entanglement
 
• IMPLUME
adj. 1536 obs. rare – of a bird: unfeathered, unfledged
vb. 1604 obs. rare – to pull off the feathers
 
• IMPLUMED
adj. 1604 rare – unfeathered, unfledged; deprived of feathers
 
• IMPLUMOUS
adj. 1755 obs. rare – unfeathered, unfledged; deprived of feathers
 
• IMPLUNGE
vb. 1590 rare – to plunge in or into
 
• IMPLUVIOUS
adj. 1656 obs. rare – wet with rain
 
• IMPLY
vb. 1. c1374 obs. – to enfold, to enwrap, to entangle, to involve 
vb. 2. a1533 obs. – to employ
 
• IMPLYMENT
n. 1614 obs. – employment
 
• IMPOIGNANT
adj. 1733 obs. rare – not sharp or piquant, insipid
 
• IMPOLISHED
adj. 1583 obs. – unpolished; devoid of polish; rude, unrefined  
 
• IMPOLITE
adj. 1. 1612 obs. – wanting polish or refinement; unpolished, rude, rough
adj. 2. 1621 obs. – not polished; wanting polish or smoothness of surface
 
• IMPOLITED
adj. 1597 obs. – wanting polish or refinement; unpolished, rude, rough
 
• IMPOLITICAL
adj. 1748 obs. – not politic; not according to good policy; unsuitable for the end proposed or desired; inexpedient  
 
• IMPOLLUTE
adj. 1382 obs. – unpolluted, undefiled
 
• IMPOLLUTED
adj. 1548 obs. – unpolluted, undefiled
 
• IMPOLLUTION
n. 1611 obs. rare – the state of being unpolluted or undefiled
 
• IMPONDERATE
vb. 1667 obs. – to place a weight upon; to weight, to load
 
• IMPONDEROUS
adj. 1. 1646 rare – without weight; imponderable
adj. 2. 1851 – having no appreciable weight; extremely light  
 
• IMPONE
vb. 1. 1529 obs. – to place or set upon something; to impose  
vb. 2. a1600 obs. – to ‘lay’ state, to wager
vb. 3. 1640 obs. – to impose upon
 
• IMPONENT
adj. a1882 – that imposes 
n. 1842 – one who imposes  
 
• IMPOOR
vb. 1613 obs. – to make poor; to impoverish
 
• IMPOPULAR
adj. 1721 obs. – unpopular
 
• IMPOPULARLY
adv. 1736 obs. – unpopularly
 
• IMPORCATE
vb. 1623 obs. rare – to make a ridge in ploughing of land
 
• IMPORCATION
 n. 1656 obs. rare – a making a ridge in ploughing land
 
• IMPORT
n. 1926 US college sl. – a date or partner brought from elsewhere (outside the college town itself) to attend a party or dance  
vb. 1. 1550 obs. – to bring about, to cause, to occasion; to involve as a consequence or result  
vb. 2. 1565 obs. – to convey to another, to communicate information etc.  
vb. 3. 1598 obs. – to obtain, to gain, to win a victory
vb. 4. 1624 obs. – to conquer, to overcome
vb. 5. 1649 obs. – to induce a person to do something
vb. 6. 1652 obs. – to influence in feeling; to ‘carry away’, to ‘transport’
 
• IMPORTABLE
adj. 1. c1386 obs. – too grievous or painful to be borne; unbearable, unendurable
adj. 2. 1475 obs. – that cannot be carried or borne
 
• IMPORTABLENESS
n. 1677 obs. – unbearableness
 
• IMPORTABLY
adv. a1420 obs. – unbearably, intolerably 
 
• IMPORTANCE
n. 1. 1552 obs. – signification, meaning, purport
n. 2. 1647 sl. – a wife
n. 3. 1691 obs. – bearing, consequence  
 
• IMPORTANCY
n. 1. 1540 obs. – the quality of being important; importance
n. 2. 1598-9 obs. – urgency, importunity
n. 3. 1623 obs. – an important matter  
 
• IMPORTING
adj. 1579 obs. – of much import; important  
 
• IMPORTLESS
adj. 1606 obs. rare – without import or significance; trivial, unimportant; meaningless  
 
• IMPORTMENT
n. 1. a1624 obs. – signification, meaning, purport  
n. 2. 1658 obs. – importance, consequence  
 
• IMPORTRAITURE
n. 1836 rare – the act of portraying in or upon something; a portrait or description
 
• IMPORTRAY
vb. 1580 obs. – to portray or depict in or upon something
 
• IMPORTUNABLE
adj. 1. 1482 obs. – burdensome, onerous, grievous, heavy  
adj. 2. 1566 obs. – troublesome  
 
• IMPORTUNABLY
adv. 1502 obs. – persistently, pertinaciously; importunately  
 
• IMPORTUNACY
n. 1548 – pertinacity; pressing solicitation  
 
• IMPORTUNANCE
n. 1546 – ? grievousness, gravity, seriousness  
 
• IMPORTUNATE
adj. 1. 1477 – persistent or pressing in solicitation; pertinacious, persistent, persevering  
adj. 2. 1529 obs. – inopportune, unseasonable, untimely
adj. 3. c1540 obs. – burdensome; grievous, grave 
adj. 4. 1542-3 obs. – pressing, urgent; busy
adj. 5. 1613 obs. – troublesome; persistently troublesome
n. 1881 – one who requests or petitions  
vb. a1598 – to solicit persistently; to urge, to importune 
 
• IMPORTUNATELY
adv. 1. 1529 obs. – inopportunely, untimely, unseasonably
adv. 2. 1564 obs. – in a burdensome or grievous way; grievously, troublesomely
adv. 3. 1568 – with pressing or persistent action or purpose; pressingly  
adv. 4. 1660 obs. – gravely, exceedingly  
 
• IMPORTUNATOR
n. 1604 – one who importunes, or solicits importunately  
 
• IMPORTUNE
adj. 1. c1400 obs. – troublesome, burdensome; vexatious; grievous, heavy, severe, exacting
adj. 2. c1425 obs. – inopportune, untimely; unseasonable, unfit
adj. 3. 1447 – persistent or pressing in solicitation; pertinacious; irksome through persistency of request  
adj. 4. c1450 obs. – pressing, urgent; busy 
n. 1589 obs. – one who is importune or troublesome in soliciting
vb. 1. 1530 – to solicit pressingly and persistently; to ply or beset with requests or petitions  
vb. 2. 1578 obs. – to burden; to be troublesome or wearisome to; to trouble, to worry, to pester, to annoy
vb. 3. 1588 – to ask for a thing urgently and persistently; to crave or beg for
vb. 4. 1603 obs. – to press, to urge, to impel
 
• IMPORTUNELY
adv. 1. c1425 obs. – inopportunely, unseasonably
adv. 2. 1464 rare – with urgent and persistent solicitation
adv. 3. 1502 obs. – pressingly, persistently, pertinaciously
adv. 4. a1656 obs. – grievously, troublesomely 
 
• IMPORTUNEMENT
n. 1635 obs. – earnest solicitation, a beseeching
 
• IMPORTUNITY
n. 1. c1460 – troublesome pertinacity in solicitation 
n. 2. 1475 obs. – burdensomeness, trouble
n. 3. 1489 obs. – the condition of being unseasonable or inopportune; unseasonableness; an unsuitable time
n. 4. 1663 obs. – pertinacity or constancy of trouble  
 
• IMPORTUNOUS
adj. 1598 obs. rare – burdensome, pestering
 
• IMPORTUOUS
adj. 1656 obs. rare – without a port or haven
 
• IMPORTURATE
adj. 1501 Sc. obs. – portrayed in or upon something
 
• IMPOS
adj. 1900s sl. – impossible  
 
• IMPOSABLE
adj. a1734 rare – capable of being imposed upon or cheated; gullible, dupable
 
• IMPOSAL
n. 1641 obs. rare – the act of imposing; imposition
 
• IMPOSANT
adj. 1502 obs. rare – one who imputes or charges  
 
• IMPOSE
n. 1591 obs. rare – the imposition or laying on of a charge, duty, or task
vb. 1. 1484 obs. – to lay a crime, etc. to the account of; to impute, to charge
vb. 2. 1597 arch. – to lay on or set on; to place or set in a position; to put, to place, to deposit  
vb. 3. 1617 rare or obs. – to place in command or office; to appoint or set up authoritatively  
 
• IMPOSEMENT
n. 1664 rare – the act of imposing; imposition  
 
• IMPOSITION
n. 1. c1374 obs. – the levying of a tax; taxation
n. 2. 1597 rare – the act of putting, placing, or laying on; also, a layer over something  
n. 3. 1611 obs. – imputation, accusation, charge
n. 4. 1746 – a literary exercise or task imposed as a punishment at school or college  
 
• IMPOSITIVE
adj. c1856 rare – not positive 
 
• IMPOSITOR
n. 1916 Amer. dial. – an impostor  
 
• IMPOSSIBILIFICATION
n. 1818 nonce word – a rendering impossible  
 
• IMPOSSIBILITATE
vb. 1633 rare – to render impossible  
 
• IMPOSSIBILITY
n. c1450 obs. – impotence, inability 
 
• IMPOSSIBLE
adj. Bk1902 Eng. dial. – unsurpassable  
 
• IMPOSSIBLENESS
n. 1447 rare – impossibility  
 
• IMPOST
n. 1. 1730 obs. rare – the hanging stile of a door or gate; hence, the leaf of a door or gate
n. 2. 1883 racing sl. – the weight which a horse has to carry in a handicap race  
 
• IMPOSTERIOUS
adj. 1633 obs. rare – of the nature of an imposture; false, fraudulent
 
• IMPOSTEROUS
adj. 1. 1562 obs. – of the nature of an imposture; false, fraudulent
adj. 2. a1626 obs. – having the character of an impostor
 
• IMPOSTEROUSLY
adv. 1657 obs. – in a fraudulent manner
 
• IMPOSTERY
n. 1656 obs. rare – imposture, cheating, fraud
 
• IMPOSTHUME
n. 1565 – moral corruption, defilement  
 
• IMPOSTORIOUS
adj. 1623 obs. rare – having the character of an impostor or imposture; fraudulent
 
• IMPOSTORISM
n. 1623 obs. rare – imposture, cheating, fraud
 
• IMPOSTOROUS
adj. 1. 1548 obs. – of the nature of an imposture, false, fraudulent
adj. 2. 1611 – having the character of an impostor; practising imposture  
 
• IMPOSTORY
n. 1653 obs. rare – imposture, cheating, fraud
 
• IMPOSTRATE
adj. 1632 obs. rare – false, fraudulent  
 
• IMPOSTRESS
n. 1614 rare – a female impostor
 
• IMPOSTRIX
n. 1655 obs. rare – a female impostor
 
• IMPOSTROUS
adj. 1. 1612 – having the character of an impostor  
adj. 2. 1635 – false, fraudulent  
 
• IMPOSTRY
n. 1585 – imposture, cheating, fraud  
 
• IMPOST-TAKER
n. 1620 UK criminals’ sl. obs. – one who stands by and lends money to a gambler at a very high interest or premium
 
• IMPOSTUME
n. 1. 1565 – moral corruption, defilement  
n. 2. 1621 obs. – a person swollen with pride or insolence
n. 3. 1710 US – an abscess
 
• IMPOSTURAGE
n. 1654 obs. rare – imposture, cheating, fraud
 
• IMPOSTURAL
adj. 1588 obs. rare – having the character of an impostor; practising imposture  
 
• IMPOSTURE
n. 1643 obs. – the deception of unreal or feigned appearances; illusion
vb. 1622 obs. – to practise imposture; to impose upon, to deceive; to act fraudulently, to cheat
 
• IMPOSTURED
adj. 1. 1619 obs. – falsified, adulterated, sham  
adj. 2. 1648 obs. – false, fraudulent
 
• IMPOSTURIOUS
adj. a1600 obs. rare – false, fraudulent 
 
• IMPOSTURISM
n. a1640 obs. rare – the practice of imposture; cheating, fraud
 
• IMPOSTURIZE
vb. 1. 1603 obs. – to practice imposture; to act fraudulently, to cheat
vb. 2. 1772 nonce use obs. – to mimic the postures of
 
• IMPOSTUROUS
adj. 1. 1608 rare – of the nature of imposture; deceptive, fraudulent
adj. 2. 1611 obs. – given to practising imposture; having the character of an impostor
 
• IMPOSTURY
n. 1615 obs. – imposture, cheating, fraud
 
• IMPOSURE
n. 1682-3 rare – an imposing; a laying on
 
• IMPOSURY
n. 1892 Ireland – imposition  
 
• IMPOT
n. 1746 colloq. – a literary exercise or task imposed as a punishment at school or college  
 
• IMPOTABLE
adj. 1608 – undrinkable  
 
• IMPOTE
vb. 1721 obs. rare – to drink heavily  
 
• IMPOTENCE
n. 1634 obs. – lack of self-restraint, violent passion  
 
• IMPOTENCY
n. 1542 obs. – lack of self-restraint, violent passion  
 
• IMPOTENT
adj. 1596 obs. – unable to restrain oneself; unrestrained, headlong, passionate  
 
• IMPOTENTIAL
adj. 1649 obs. rare – powerless, helpless, impotent  
 
• IMPOTENTLY
adv. 1621 obs. – without self-restraint; ungovernably, unrestrainedly  
 
• IMPOTENTNESS
n. 1530 obs. rare – impotence, utter inability, powerlessness  
 
• IMPOTIONATE
adj. 1583 obs. rare  – poisoned  
vb. 1563-87 obs. rare – to poison  
 
• IMPOUCH
vb. 1611 obs. rare – to put into a pouch, bag, or pocket
 
• IMPOUNDAGE
n. 1611 obs. – the act of impounding
 
• IMPOVER
vb. 1535 obs. rare – to impoverish  
 
• IMPOVERISH
vb. 1611 obs. – to reduce, to diminish wealth or a stock of anything  
 
• IMPOVERISHLY
adv. 1847 rare – so as to impoverish