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To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.

Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern.

An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.

Imbricate.

A hit or thrust. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Failure to mortify the passions. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

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

To infold; to fold together; to interweave. The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley.

The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. Boyle.

Tending to implicate.

By implication. Sir G. Buck.

To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous. Imprecate the vengeance of Heaven on the guilty empire. Mickle.

The act of imprecating, or unvoking evil upon any one; a player that a curse or calamnity may fall on any one; a curse. Men cowered like slaves before such horrid imprecations. Motley.

Of the nature of, or containing, imprecation; invokingevil; as, the imprecatory psalms.

Not prejuged; unprejudiced; impartial. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To impregnate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.

Inauspicious [Obs.] Sir G. Buck.

The act of assuming, or state of being clothed with, flesh; incarnation.

The act of linking together; enchaining. [R.] Goldsmith.