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The quality of being importunate; importunateness.

gent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell.

One who importunes; an importuner. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

e, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. [Obs.] And their importune fates all satisfied. Spenser. Of all other affections it [envy] is the most importune and continual. Bacon.

In an importune manner. [Obs.]

One who importunes.

The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity. O'ercome with importunity and tears. Milton.

Without a port or harbor. [R.]

Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.

Quality of being imposable.

To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit. Cakes of salt and barley [she] did impose Within a wicker basket. Chapman.

Imposition. [Obs.]

One who imposes. The imposers of these oaths might repent. Walton.

Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. "Large and imposing edifices." Bp. Hobart.

In an imposing manner.

The quality of being imposing.

The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like. "From imposition of strict laws." Milton. Made more solemn by the imposition of hands. Hammond.

The quality of being impossible; impracticability. They confound difficulty with impossibility. South.

things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible. With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Matt. xix. 26. Without faith it is impossible to please him. Heb. xi. 6. Impossible quantity (Math.), an imagnary quantity. See Imagin…

Not possibly. Sir. T. North.