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To palsy; to paralyze; to deaden. [R.]

Embodied in bread, esp. in the bread of the eucharist. [Obs.] Cranmer.

Embodiment in bread; the supposed real presence and union of Christ's material body and blood with the substance of the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; -- distinguished from transubstantiation, which supposes a miraculous change of the substance of the elements. It is akin to consubstantiati…

One who holds the doctrine of impanation.

To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice. Blackstone.

The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled.

To put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy. "Imparadised in one another's arms." Milton.

Unparalleled. [Obs.]

Unpardonable. [Obs.] South.

Having an odd number of fingers or toes, either one, three, or five, as in the horse, tapir, rhinoceros, etc.

Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.

Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.

congruity. In this region of merely intellectual notion we are at once encountered by the imparity of the object and the faculty employed upon it. I. Taylor.

To inclose for a park; to sever from a common; hence, to inclose or shut up. They . . . impark them [the sheep] within hurdles. Holland.

To hold discourse; to parley. [Obs.] Sir. T. North.

Mutual discourse; conference. [Obs.]

Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession. -- n.

are or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warmth. Well may he then to you his cares impart. Dryden.

Impartation.

The act of imparting, or the thing imparted. The necessity of this impartation. I. Taylor.