• IMPRACTICABLE
n. 1829 – an obstinate or stubborn person
• IMPRAVABLE
adj. 1542 obs. – incorruptible
• IMPRECATE
vb. 1616 rare – to invoke evil upon a person; to curse
• IMPRECATOR
n. 1845 – one who invokes evil
• IMPRECIABLE
adj. 1502 obs. – invaluable; beyond price
• IMPREGN
vb. c1540 now only poetic usage – to impregnate
• IMPREHEND
vb. 1590 obs. rare – to take in, to comprise, to incorporate, to include
• IMPREHENSIBLE
adj. 1622 obs. rare – not to be grasped or seized; not to be apprehended; unintelligible, incomprehensible
• IMPREHENSION
n. 1611 obs. rare – undertaking
• IMPREJUDICATE
adj. 1640 obs. – unprejudiced
• IMPREJUDICATELY
adv. 1654 obs. – without prejudice
• IMPREJUDICE
n. 1806 obs. – absence of prejudice; unprejudiced opinion
• IMPREMEDITATE
adj. 1647 obs. rare – unpremeditated
• IMPREMEDITATION
n. 1611 obs. – want of premeditation
• IMPREPARATION
n. 1597 obs. – want of preparation; unpreparedness
• IMPREPARING
n. 1530 obs. rare – want of preparation; unpreparedness
• IMPRESA
n. 1. 1589 obs. – an emblem or device, usually accompanied by an appropriate motto
n. 2. 1622 obs. – the sentence accompanying an emblem; hence, a motto, maxim, proverb
• IMPRESARIO
n. 1746 – one who organizes public entertainments; the manager of an operatic or concert company
• IMPRESCIENCE
n. a1859 – want of foreknowledge
• IMPRESCRIBABLE
adj. 1887 – that cannot in any circumstances by legally taken away or abandoned; not removable
• IMPRESCRIPTIBILITY
n. 1797 rare – the quality of being irremovable
• IMPRESCRIPTIBLE
adj. 1563-87 – that cannot in any circumstances by legally taken away or abandoned; not removable
• IMPRESE
n. 1. 1588 obs. – an emblem or device
n. 2. 1614 obs. –a motto
• IMPRESS
n. 1. 1600 obs. –money advanced, pay in advance
n. 2. 1611 obs. – a motto, sentence
n. 3. 1623 obs. – an emblem or device
n. 4. 1695 obs. rare – a cast, mould
vb. 1. c1386 obs. – to press or throng about
vb. 2. 1665 obs. rare – to advance money
• IMPRESSABLE
adj. 1865-6 rare – liable to be impressed into service
• IMPRESSED
adj. 1931 Amer. dial. – impelled, moved
• IMPRESSION
n. 1. 1402 obs. – a charge, onset, attack, assault
n. 2. c1470 obs. rare – oppression
n. 3. 1509 rare – the process of printing
n. 4. 1613 obs. – a mark, trace, indication
• IMPRESSIONLESS
adj. 1864 rare – void of impressions; unimpressible
• IMPRESSMENT
n. 1854 rare – earnestness, ardour
• IMPRESSOR
n. 1781 obs. rare – one who impresses or takes by force for the public service
• IMPRESSURE
n. 1680 obs. rare – the act or practice of impressing or forcibly taking for the public service
• IMPREST
adj. 1570 obs. – of money: lent or paid in advance; advanced, esp. to soldiers, sailors, and public officials
n. 1. 1610 obs. – the act or practice of impressing or forcibly taking for the public service
n. 2. 1686 obs. – an advance, a loan
vb. 1. 1565 obs. – to advance or lend money
vb. 2. 1645 obs. – to impress for the army or navy
• IMPRESTABLE
adj. 1. 1683 obs. rare – that cannot be performed or rendered; impossible to do
adj. 2. 1683 Sc. obs. – impracticable
• IMPREST-BILL
n. 1615 obs. – an order authorizing a person to draw money in advance
• IMPRETIABLE
adj. 1638 obs. rare – invaluable, priceless
• IMPREVALENCE
n. 1828 obs. rare – want of prevailing power; lack of power or authority
• IMPREVALENCY
n. a1656 obs. rare – want of prevailing power; lack of power or authority
• IMPREVARICABLE
adj. 1644 obs. rare – that cannot be deviated from; invariable
• IMPREVE
vb. 1. 1488 Sc. obs. – to disallow; to disprove
vb. 2. 1553 Sc. obs. – to rebuke, to reprove
• IMPREVISIBLE
adj. 1887 rare – that cannot be foreseen, unforeseeable
• IMPREVISION
n. 1883 rare – want of foresight; improvidence; waste of money, extravagance
• IMPRIDE
vb. c1425 obs. rare – to imbue with pride, to make proud
• IMPRIEVE
vb. 1. 1488 Sc. obs. – to disallow; to disprove
vb. 2. 1553 Sc. obs. – to rebuke, to reprove
• IMPRIMATURE
n. 1762 obs. – printing; imprint, impression
• IMPRIME
vb. 1637 obs. – to begin, to commence, to initiate, to enter upon
• IMPRIMENT
n. 1762 obs. rare – something that impresses or imprints
• IMPRIMERY
n. 1. 1663 obs. – a printing office or printing house
n. 2. 1674 obs. – a print or impression
n. 3. 1681 obs. – printing
• IMPRIMING
n. c1633 – beginning, commencement
• IMPRINCIPIATE
adj. 1683 obs. rare – without a beginning or origin
• IMPRINT
n. c1489 obs. – an onset, assault, charge
• IMPRINTING
adj. c1592 obs. – that imprints or impresses something on the mind, impressive
n. c1440 obs. – printing of books
• IMPRINTINGLY
adv. 1594 obs. – impressively
• IMPRISON
n. 1509 obs. rare – imprisonment
• IMPRIVACY
vb. a1670 obs. rare – to place in privacy; to secrete
• IMPRO
n. Bk2002 Aust. sl. – improvisation
• IMPROACHABLE
adj. 1571 obs. – unapproachable
• IMPROBABILIZE
vb. 1820 rare – to render improbable
• IMPROBATE
adj. 1596 obs. rare – wicked
vb. 1656 obs. rare – to disapprove, to disallow
• IMPROBATION
n. 1. 1526 obs. – reproach
n. 2. 1551 obs. rare – disproof, confutation, refutation
n. 3. 1656 obs. – disapprobation, disapproval
• IMPROBATIVE
adj. 1. 1754 – capable of being refuted, liable to disproof; not proved to be true or genuine
adj. 2. 1876 – having the function of disproving; tending to refute
• IMPROBATORY
adj. 1828 – having the function of disproving; tending to refute
• IMPROBE
n. 1484 obs. rare – a wicked or evil person
• IMPROBITY
n. 1. c1380 obs. – persistency, perseverance
n. 2. 1594 – wickedness, evil, lack of principle or integrity
• IMPROBOUS
adj. 1657 obs. rare – wicked, unprincipled
• IMPROBOUSLY
adv. 1657 obs. – wickedly, violently
• IMPROBRATION
n. 1526 obs. rare – reproach, reviling
• IMPROCERITY
n. 1658 obs. – lowness, want of tallness
• IMPROCEROUS
adj. 1656 obs. rare – low of stature, not tall
• IMPROCREABILITY
n. 1658 obs. – barrenness, inability to procreate
• IMPROCREABLE
adj. 1623 obs. rare – unable to procreate, not begotten
• IMPROCURABILITY
n. 1876 rare – the condition of being unprocurable or unobtainable
• IMPRODUCIBLE
adj. 1704 rare – incapable of being produced
• IMPROFICIENCE
n. 1605 obs. rare – lack of proficiency; unskilfulness, backwardness
• IMPROFICIENCY
n. 1647 rare – lack of proficiency; unskilfulness, backwardness
• IMPROFICUOUS
adj. 1650 obs. rare – unprofitable, profitless, unrewarding
• IMPROFITABLE
adj. a1325 obs. – unprofitable, profitless, unrewarding
• IMPROFITABLENESS
n. a1643 obs. – unprofitableness, uselessness
• IMPROLIFIC
adj. a1661 obs. – unprolific, infertile
• IMPROLIFICAL
adj. 1646 obs. – unprolific, infertile
• IMPROLIFICATE
vb. 1646 obs. – to render prolific, to fertilize
• IMPROMISCUOUS
adj. 1656 obs. rare – unmixed, unmingled, not combined
• IMPROMPT
adj. 1759 obs. – unprepared, unready
• IMPROMPTITUDE
n. 1887 – want of quickness in action; slowness to act; unreadiness, unpreparedness
• IMPROMPTUARY
adj. 1802 – impromptu, unplanned, improvised
• IMPROOF
n. 1. 1590 obs. rare – rebuke, reproof, censure
n. 2. 1641 obs. rare – disproof, refutation
• IMPROPER
vb. 1. c1380 obs. – to assign as a proper or private possession, to appropriate to an individual
vb. 2. 1791 nonce usage obs. – to behave improperly
• IMPROPERATE
vb. 1. 1623 obs. rare – to reproach; to upbraid one with a fault
vb. 2. 1656 obs. rare – to hasten in
• IMPROPERATION
n. 1. 1502 obs. – the act of upbraiding or reviling; a reproach, a taunt
n. 2. 1658 obs. rare – a hastening in, making haste
• IMPROPERTY
n. 1555 obs. rare – impropriety, unfittingness, unsuitability, inappropriateness
• IMPROPERY
n. 1542 obs. – reproach, upbraiding
• IMPROPITIOUS
adj. 1638 obs. rare – unfavourable, disadvantageous
• IMPROPRIATE
adj. a1600 obs. – appropriate to some particular person or persons
vb. 1567 obs. – to make proper or peculiar to some person or thing; to make one’s own; to appropriate
• IMPROPRIATION
n. 1. 1611 obs. – appropriation
n. 2. 1651 obs. – something appropriated to a private owner; a property
• IMPROPRIATOR
n. 1631 obs. rare – one to whom anything is appropriated; a proprietor, owner; one who appropriates or arrogates something to himself
• IMPROPRIOUS
adj. 1688 obs. rare – ? lacking a proper form of its own
• IMPROPRY
vb. 1526 obs. – to appropriate
• IMPROSPERITY
n. 1528 obs. – want of, or the opposite of prosperity; bad fortune, ill success, adversity; unprosperousness
• IMPROSPEROUS
adj. 1. 1598 obs. – of fortune, etc.: adverse to prosperity, unfavourable
adj. 2. 1602 obs. – not prosperous or thriving; unfortunate, unlucky, unsuccessful
• IMPROSPEROUSLY
adv. 1594 obs. – unsuccessfully
• IMPROVABLE
adj. 1604 obs. rare – capable of being disproved or refuted; worthy of disapproval
• IMPROVATORY
adj. 1835 nonce word – of improving nature or tendency
• IMPROVE
vb. 1. c1449 obs. – to prove to be wrong; to disprove, to refute, to confute a person, a statement, etc.
vb. 2. 1509 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – to make greater in amount or degree; to increase, to augment, to magnify, to enlarge, to intensify; to grow larger
vb. 3. 1526 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – to disapprove as bad; to disallow; to reprove, to rebuke; to blame, to censure, to condemn
vb. 4. 1548 obs. – to enhance the monetary value; to raise the price or amount of
vb. 5. 1613 obs. – to prove, to establish, to demonstrate, to show to be true or real
vb. 6. 1615 obs. – to increase or augment what is evil; to aggravate, to make worse
vb. 7. 1702 obs. – to approve, to sanction, to countenance
vb. 8. 1741 Sc. obs. – to disapprove, to disallow
vb. 9. 1888 Eng. dial. – to learn one’s trade as an apprentice
• IMPROVED
adj. 1690 obs. – made greater, increased, enhanced; aggravated
• IMPROVED SCOT
n. 1987 Can. sl. – in Hudson Bay: a person of mixed Scottish and Indian blood
• IMPROVEMENT
n. 1. 1453 obs. – the turning of a thing to profit or good account; profitable management or use; making the most of a thing for one’s own profit
n. 2. 1548 obs. – increase, enlargement, growth, development, advancement
n. 3. 1607 obs. – intensification or aggravation of evil
n. 4. 1686 obs. rare – use; practice
n. 5. 1703 US obs. – employment, occupation
• IMPROVER
n. 1. 1611 obs. rare – one who disproves, a confuter
n. 2. 1885 Eng. dial. – a deacon; one who is learning the profession of a clergyman
• IMPROVERESS
n. 1744 – a female who improves something
• IMPROVIDED
adj. 1. 1548 obs. – unprovided; unprepared
adj. 2. 1590 obs. – unforeseen; unlooked for
• IMPROVIDENCE
n. 1598- want of foresight; thriftlessness, waste of money, extravagance
• IMPROVIDENT
adj. 1. 1514 – unforeseeing; that does not foresee or forecast the future, without foresight
adj. 2. 1591 – imprudent, heedless; unwary
adj. 3. 1624 – thriftless, extravagant, spendthrift
• IMPROVIDENTIAL
adj. 1. a1684 obs. rare – not capable of being predicted
adj. 2. 1819 obs. rare – thriftless, extravagant, spendthrift
• IMPROVIDENTIALLY
adv. 1. 1797 obs. – without foresight
adv. 2. 1819 obs. – thriftlessly, without thought of the future, extravagantly
• IMPROVIDENTLY
adv. 1. 1607 – without foresight
adv. 2. 1868 – thriftlessly, extravagantly, without thought of the future
adv. 3. 1885 rare – in an unforeseen or unanticipated manner
• IMPROVING
n. c1449 obs. – disproving; refutation
• IMPROVISATE
adj. 1847 rare – improvised; unpremeditated, impromptu
vb. 1. 1832 – to improvise; to do without planning
vb. 2. 1838 – to ad lib, to speak extempore
• IMPROVISATIZE
vb. 1847 rare – to improvise, to do without planning
• IMPROVISATOR
n. 1795 – one who improvises or composes extempore
• IMPROVISATORIAL
adj. 1822 – having the power of extempore composition or oratory; improvising
• IMPROVISATORIZE
vb. 1828 rare – to improvise, to ad lib, to speak extempore
• IMPROVISATORY
adj. 1806 – having the power of extempore composition or oratory; improvising
• IMPROVISATRICE
n. 1804 – a woman who improvises
• IMPROVISEDLY
adv. c1568 obs. – without forethought, imprudently, precipitately
• IMPROVISION
n. 1646 obs. – want of forethought, lack of foresight
• IMPROVISO
adj. 1786 obs. – improvised, extempore
vb. 1835 nonce usage obs. – to improvise
• IMPRUDENCY
n. 1576 obs. – imprudence, incautiousness, indiscretion, rashness
• IMPRUDENT
n. 1753 obs. – a rash, heedless, or incautious person; one who is indiscreet
• IMPRUDENTIAL
adj. 1649 obs. rare – imprudent, incautious, rash, heedless, indiscreet
• IMPSE
n. Bk1902 Eng. dial. – image. model
• IMPS FILE
n. 1976 UK sl. – a journalists’ dossier on an important person or persons
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