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through his thoughts. Fairfax. Being the right idea of your father Both in your form and nobleness of mind. Shak. This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [the senses] to the imagination, and lodged there for the view and observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and properly calle…

Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous.

Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened everywhere. Drayton.

One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor. [Obs.] Praxiteles was ennobled for a rare imager. Holland.

truct; as, to impede the advance of troops. Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will. Logfellow.

n must needs abide. Shak. Death is the penalty imposed. Milton. Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws. Waller.

imprese, as the Italians call it, is a device in picture with his motto or word, borne by noble or learned personages. Camden.

which incites to action; that which rouses or prompts; incitement; motive; incentive. The noblest incitation to honest attempts. Tatler.

That which is indivisible. By atom, nobody will imagine we intend to express a perfect indivisible, but only the least sort of natural bodies. Digby.

To clasp with the arms; to embrace. Noble Banquo, . . . let me infold thee, And hold thee to my heart. Shak.

The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law. I. Watts.

To generate or produce within; to begete; to engener; to occasion; to cause. Mede. Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul. Sir M. Hale.

Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown.

The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn. [Eng.]

utward; as, an spirit or its phenomena. This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man,the nobler part. Milton.

cord by which the wearer may grasp it, which cord passes through an ornamental button or knob called a netsuke.

deity . . . Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed By four cherubic shapes. Milton. A noble performance, instinct with sound principle. Brougham.

ut the middle of the fourth century from the building of Rome, it was declared lawful for nobles and plebeians to intermarry. Swift.

ls which the canon law requires between the reception of the various degrees of orders. Nonobservance of the interstices . . . is a sin. Addis & Arnold.