importune, grievous, severe. Spenser, F. Q, i. 12. 16; ii. 6. 29; importunate, Bacon, Essay 9. L. importunus, troublesome.
imposterous, impostorous, deceitful, like an impostor. Beaumont and Fl., Woman-hater, iii. 2 (Duke); Middleton, Mayor of Queenborough, ii. 3 (Horsus).
impostumation, a tumour. Bacon, Essay 15, § 14. From impostume (imposthume).
impotence, want of self-restraint, ungovernable passion. Massinger, A Very Woman, ii. 1 (Antonio).
impotent, unable to restrain oneself, unrestrained. Spenser, F. Q. v. 12. 1; Massinger, Unnatural Combat, iii. 2. 37. L. impotens, powerless. See Trench, Select Glossary (s.v.).
imprest, advance-pay of soldiers or sailors. Dekker, Shoemakers’ Holiday, i. 1 (L. Mayor); imprest money, money advanced, a loan, B. Jonson, Magnetic Lady, iv. 1 (Compass). Ital. impresto, a loan; imprestare, to lend (Florio).
improperation, a reproach, a taunt. Sir T. Browne, Rel. Medici, pt. i, § 3. Deriv. of Late L. improperare, to reproach (Vulgate, Rom. xv. 3).
improve, to use for advantage, to turn to account. Jul. Caesar, ii. 1. 159.
improved, approved. Middleton, The Widow, i. 1 (Brandino).
impuissance, want of power, weakness. Bacon, Henry VII (ed. Lumby, p. 92).