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Imaginative. [Obs.] Holland.

s. Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination. Glanvill. Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present, or as if they were present. Bacon.

Pertaining to, involving, or caused by, imagination.

Idealism. J. Grote.

Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word. In all the higher departments of imaginative art, nature still constitues an important element. Mure.

A flowing or entering in; -- opposed to emanation. [R.] Good.

Not having a distinctive margin or border. Grey.

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

y 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 consubstantiation.

One who holds the doctrine of impanation.

Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.

Strongly affected. Smart.

Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins. -- n.

To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth. Benedict impersonated his age. Milman.

The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.

One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.

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

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

To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate.

The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.