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Lack of power; inability. Bacon. Their own impuissance and weakness. Holland.

Weak; impotent; feeble.

The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately. All spontaneous animal motion is performed by mechanical impulse. S. Clarke.

The act of impelling or driving onward, or the state of being impelled; the sudden or momentary agency of a body in motion on another body; also, the impelling force, or impulse. "The impulsion of the air." Bacon.

Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent. Poor men! poor papers! We and they Do some impulsive force obey. Prior.

In an impulsive manner.

The quality of being impulsive.

One who, or that which, impels; an inciter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Not punctuate or dotted.

Not punctual. [R.]

Neglect of, or failure in, punctuality. [R.] A. Hamilton.

Unpunished. [R.]

Without punishment; with impunity. [Obs.] J. Ellis.

Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss. Heaven, though slow to wrath, Is neimpunity defied. Cowper. The impunity and also the recompense. Holland.

Defilement; obscuration. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

lean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.

In an impure manner.

The quality or condition of being impure; impurity. Milton.

The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration. Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit. Buckminster.

To color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; to purple; as, a field impurpled with blood. Impurpled with celestial roses, smiled. Milton. The silken fleece impurpled for the loom. Pope.