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fhndiog with

Ag~memnon;

and the advanlages that

arterwarJs accrued

the:n from their union. TIIC

lliad is dividcd in:o twenty-four books, or rhapCodics,

which are

m~rked

with the letters of Ihe alphabet.

ILlúM, in

~nalomy.

Sce ANA'r. p.

260.

1LLENOIS, Ihe inhabitants of acountry conliguous to

the illeoois·lake, in Canada, in north America, which

is filualcd between

88"

and

of W. Ion. and be·

tween

.¡

and

46°

of N. IH.

ILLER, a river of Germany, which rifing inthe moun·

tains of Tyrol, runs oonh through Swabia, and falls

into the Danubeat Ulm.

ILMEN, a Iake in the province of Great Novogrod, in

Rullia, in

34°

E.lon. aod

58°

N. lat.

ILMINSTER, amarket·towo of Somerfetlhire, tweoty–

four miles (outh·wefl of Wells.

IMAGE, iDa religious feo fe, is an artificial repreferi.

rarion or fimilitude of fome perfon or thiog, uCed ei·

ther by way of decoration and ornament, or as

ao objeét of religious worlhip aod veneration

which laH fenfe, it is ufed indiffereorly wirh the word

idol.

IMAGINATION, a power or faculty of the mind,

whereby it conceives aod (orms ideas of things como

municated tOit by the outward orgaos of fenfe. See

METAPHYSICS.

IMAN, a name applied by the Mahomeraos

him who

he~d

of thecoogregations in their mofques

aod, by

way of eminence, to him who has the fupreme autho·

rity bOlh in refpeét

fpirituals and temporals.

H"mECILLlTY, alanguid, infirm flateof body

which,

beiog greatly impaired, is nOI able

perform ils uCual

exercifes and funétioDs.

1MBIBING, the allion of a dry porous body, tbar ab·

forbs or lakes up a moifl or fluid one: thus, fugar im–

bibes water

a fpunge, the moiflure of the air,

&e.

IMBRICATED, amoDg bOlaoins. See BOTANv, p.

IMENSTAT, a town of Germany, in rhe cirele of

Swabia; fitumd in E. Ion.

10°

8'.

N. lato

47° 26',.

IMITATlON, the alls of doiog or IIriving to copy af·

ter, or beco

like to, another perfon Or thing.

Du Bos obferres, rhat the principal merit of poems

.and pillures confiUs in the imiratioo of fuch objcé13

as IVould have excited real pallioos

and Ihat the paC–

lions which thde imitations give rife tO, are ooly fu·

perficial, and not fo flrong as that of the objell imitaled,

aDd are therefore foon elTaced. He .Ifo maiotaios,

that the imitation of tragie objells in poems and pie.

tmes, afford

moa

pleafure: we lineo, therefore, with

pleafure to Ibofe unhappy meo \Vho make a redtal of

their misfonunes by means of a painter's pencil, or of

poet's nrfes

but, as Diogcnes Laenius obferves,

it woula amiél us extremely, IVere we tO bear tbem

bew'ailing thei r Cad di{aUers in pcrfon.

lMMACULflTE; fomelhing.without lIain, chieflr ap'

plied

the conception of tbe holy virgio.

IMMATERIAL, fomelhingdcvoid of maller, or thal is

pure (pirit: thus God, angeh, and the humaD foul, are

immaterial beings.

lMMEDJATE, wbateyer i5 capable of produciog

ef·

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fell

without Ihe inlerVeotion of eXlernal means

tha,

we fay, ao immcdiate cauCe, iD oppofitioo to 'amedialc

or remote onc.

IMMENSITY, an uolimited extenfion, or which no

fioite and delerminate Cpace, repeatcd ever fo often,

can equa!.

IMMERSION, rhat aél by whieh aoy Ihing is plunged

into water or other fluid.

It is ufed in eheminr) for a fpecies

caleinarioD,

wheo aoy body is immerfed in a Huid to be eorroded'

or it is

fpecies oflotion, as when a fubnance is plun:

ged into any flu!d iD

or~er

deprive il of abad quali–

ty, or eommuDteate ro It a good one.

IMMER SION, in anronomy, is when a llar or planet is fo

near the fun with regard to our obfervations, thar we

eannot fee ir·

b~ing,

as it were, inveloped and hid io

the rays of that laminary. It alfo deootes the begiD'

oing of an eclipfe of the moon, or that momenl wheo

the moonbegins to be darkeDed, and tO eoter iDlo !he

lhadow ohhe emh.

IMMORTAL, thar whichwilllafl ro al! eternitr,

ha·

viog in it no principie of alterarion or corruption:

thus God and the human Coul are immonal,

IMMUNlTY, a privilege or exemptioo from Come

o/lice, dUly, or impofiliop, as ao exemptioo from

tolls,

be.

Immuoity is more panicularly underllood of Ihe li·

berties granted to eilies and eommunities.

IMPALED, in heraldrn when Ihe eoats of amaD and

his wife who is oot an heirefs are borne io the fame

efeulcheon, they mufl be marlhalled in pale

the huf·

band's on the right fide, and the wife's 00 Ihe lefl :

and this the heralds' eall b;uoo and feme, two coats

impalled.

a mao has had IWO \Vives, he mayimpale his coat

iD the middle betweeo theirs

and if he has had more

than two, they are

be marlhalled

each fide ofbi,

. in their proper order.

IMPALPABLE, thal whofe parts are fo extremely mi·

nute thal they eannOI be difiinguilhed by the feofes,

parrieularly by that of feeliog.

IMPANATION, a termufed by di,ines, to fignify Ihe

opioion of the Lutherans with regard to tbe eucharin,

\Vho believe thal the

fpe~ies

of bread and wine re·

maio together with Ihe body of our Saviour after coo·

fecration.

IMPANNELLING, in law, fignifies Ihe writing down

or enleriog into a parchment, ¡ill or fchedule, the

names of a jury fummoned by the lheriEr to appear for

fueh publie fervices as juries are employed in.

IMPARLANCE. in law, a petilion in coun for a

day

tO eonfider or advife whal anfIVer the defcndanr lha/l

make to the plaintilf's aétion

and is the conlinuance of

Ihe eaufe li/l

aooth.er

day, or a longer time givcn by

the eotlrt.

IMPASTATION, the mixtion of ,arious marerials of

diErercnt colours anJ confincncies, baked or bound too

gether with fOOlecement, and hardened either by

!he

air or by fire.

lMPATIENS, in botany, a geous of Ihe fyngenefia mo'

nogynia claf!. Tite calix ,0nGIIs

tIVO !caves, and

the