Impropriation (n.) The act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation.
Impropriation (n.) A benefice in the hands of a layman, or of a lay corporation.
Impropriator (n.) One who impropriates; specifically, a layman in possession of church property.
-trixes (pl. ) of Impropriatrix
-trices (pl. ) of Impropriatrix
Impropriatrix (n.) A female impropriator.
Improprieties (pl. ) of Impropriety
Impropriety (n.) The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, impropriety of behavior or manners.
Impropriety (n.) That which is improper; an unsuitable or improper act, or an inaccurate use of language.
Improsperity (n.) Want of prosperity.
Improsperous (a.) Not prosperous.
Improvability (n.) The state or quality of being improvable; improvableness.
Improvable (a.) Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities.
Improvable (a.) Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous.
Improve (v. t.) To disprove or make void; to refute.
Improve (v. t.) To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence.
Improved (imp. & p. p.) of Improve
Improving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Improve
Improve (v. t.) To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land.
Improve (v. t.) To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means.
Improve (v. t.) To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad.
Improve (v. i.) To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.
Improve (v. i.) To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.
Improve (v. i.) To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves.
Improvement (n.) The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.
Improvement (n.) The act of making profitable use or applicaton of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
Improvement (n.) The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.
Improvement (n.) Increase; growth; progress; advance.
Improvement (n.) Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
Improvement (n.) A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
Improver (n.) One who, or that which, improves.
Improvided (a.) Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against; unprepared.
Improvidence (n.) The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.
Improvident (a.) Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man.
Improvidentially (adv.) Improvidently.
Improvidently (adv.) In a improvident manner.
Improving (a.) Tending to improve, beneficial; growing better.
Improvisate (a.) Unpremeditated; impromptu; extempore.
Improvisated (imp. & p. p.) of Improvisate
Improvisating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Improvisate
Improvisate (v. t. & i.) To improvise; to extemporize.
Improvisation (n.) The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.
Improvisation (n.) That which is improvised; an impromptu.
Improvisatize (v. t. & i.) Same as Improvisate.
Improvisator (n.) An improviser, or improvvisatore.
Improvisatore (n.) See Improvvisatore.
Improvisatorial (a.) Alt. of Improvisatory
Improvisatory (a.) Of or pertaining to improvisation or extemporaneous composition.
Improvisatrice (n.) See Improvvisatrice.
Improvised (imp. & p. p.) of Improvise
Improvising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Improvise
Improvise (v. t.) To compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously.
Improvise (v. t.) To bring about, arrange, or make, on a sudden, or without previous preparation.
Improvise (v. t.) To invent, or provide, offhand, or on the spur of the moment; as, he improvised a hammer out of a stone.
Improvise (v. i.) To produce or render extemporaneous compositions, especially in verse or in music, without previous preparation; hence, to do anything offhand.
Improviser (n.) One who improvises.
Improvision (n.) Improvidence.
Improviso (a.) Not prepared or mediated beforehand; extemporaneous.
Improvvisatori (pl. ) of Improvvisatore
Improvvisatore (n.) One who composes and sings or recites rhymes and short poems extemporaneously.
Improvvisatrici (pl. ) of Improvvisatrice
Improvvisatrice (n.) A female improvvisatore.
Imprudence (n.) The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; reshness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence.
Imprudent (a.) Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper.
Impuberal (a.) Not having arrived at puberty; immature.
Impuberty (n.) The condition of not having reached puberty, or the age of ability to reproduce one's species; want of age at which the marriage contract can be legally entered into.
Impudence (n.) The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; want of modesty.
Impudency (n.) Impudence.
Impudent (a.) Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy.
Impudently (adv.) In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly.
Impudicity (n.) Immodesty.
Impugned (imp. & p. p.) of Impugn
Impugning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impugn
Impugn (v. t.) To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose.
Impugnable (a.) Capable of being impugned; that may be gainsaid.
Impugnation (n.) Act of impugning; opposition; attack.
Impugner (n.) One who impugns.
Impugnment (n.) The act of impugning, or the state of being impugned.
Impuissance (n.) Lack of power; inability.
Impuissant (a.) Weak; impotent; feeble.
Impulse (n.) The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately.
Impulse (n.) The effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force.
Impulse (n.) The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body.
Impulse (n.) A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will.
Impulse (v. t.) To impel; to incite.
Impulsion (n.) The act of impelling or driving onward, or the state of being impelled; the sudden or momentary agency of a body in motion on another body; also, the impelling force, or impulse.
Impulsion (n.) Influence acting unexpectedly or temporarily on the mind; sudden motive or influence; impulse.
Impulsive (a.) Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.
Impulsive (a.) Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings.
Impulsive (a.) Acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous; -- said of forces.
Impulsive (n.) That which impels or gives an impulse; an impelling agent.
Impulsively (adv.) In an impulsive manner.
Impulsiveness (n.) The quality of being impulsive.
Impulsor (n.) One who, or that which, impels; an inciter.
Impunctate (a.) Not punctuate or dotted.
Impunctual (a.) Not punctual.
Impunctuality (n.) Neglect of, or failure in, punctuality.
Impune (a.) Unpunished.
Impunibly (adv.) Without punishment; with impunity.
Impunity (n.) Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss.