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eing imperious; arrogance; haughtiness. Imperiousness and severity is but an ill way of treating men who have reason of their own to guide them. Locke.

Supplicatory; entreating. [R.] Carlyle.

That implores; beseeching; entreating. -- Im*plor"ing*ly, adv.

ve, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition. Shak.

Imposture; cheating. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating. From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. Johnson.

The act of creating a corporation.

antities and their differences or increments. It differs from the method of fluxions in treating these differences as finite, instead of infinitely small, and is equivalent to the calculus of finite differences.

The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions of the mouth in eating.

A division of the Cheiroptera, including the common or insect- eating bats.

Pertaining to, or treating of, institutions; as, institutional legends. Institutional writers as Rousseau. J. S. Mill.

Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.

eing intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking.

ion, textbooks, proof of usage, and from recitals in treaties. It is called public when treating of the relations of sovereign powers, and private when of the relations of persons of different nationalities. International law is now, by the better opinion, part of the common law of the land. Cf. Conflict of laws, under…

The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts. Invention of the cross (Eccl.), a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior's cross by St. Helena.

esembling it in its salts. It is obtained as a colorless, mobile, unstable liquid by the heating cyanuric acid. Called technically carbimide.

gular axes, are equal to one another. This kind of projection is principally used in delineating buildings or machinery, in which the principal lines are parallel to three rectangular axes, and the principal planes are parallel to three rectangular planes passing through the three axes.

The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal. Mayne.

Repeating; iterating; as, an iterant echo. Bacon.

Repeating. Cotgrave. -- It"er*a*tive*ly, adv.