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The doctrine taught by Schelling, that matter and mind, and subject and object, are identical in the Absolute; -- called also the system or doctrine of identity.

y idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Matt. xii. 36. Down their idle weapons dropped. Milton. This idle story became important. Macaulay.

serve thy care. Pope. If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. Matt. iv. 3.

in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, or iliac, passion.

To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify. [Obs.] Matter to me of glory, whom their hate Illustrates. Milton.

nce. Even like a stony image, cold and numb. Shak. Whose is this image and superscription Matt. xxii. 20. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Shak. And God created man in his own image. Gen. i. 27.

God with us; -- an appellation of the Christ. Is. vii. 14. Matt. i. 23.

Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker.

In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance.

. . touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Matt. viii. 3.

and in it immerged a quantity of the leaves of senna. Boyle. Their souls are immerged in matter. Jer. Taylor.

Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. [Obs.] "Things immerse in matter." Bacon.

xcess of praise. Pope. The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him. Addison. Dryden was poor and impatient of poverty. Macaulay.

That property in virtue of which two portions of matter can not at the same time occupy the same portion of space.

Impertinence. [R.] O, matter and impertinency mixed! Reason in madness! Shak.

Not pertinent; not pertaining to the matter in hand; having no bearing on the subject; not to the point; irrelevant; inapplicable. Things that are impertinent to us. Tillotson. How impertinent that grief was which served no end! Jer. Taylor.

Subject; matter. [Obs.] Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature. Shak.

ticable; not feasible. With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Matt. xix. 26. Without faith it is impossible to please him. Heb. xi. 6. Impossible quantity (Math.), an imagnary quantity. See Imaginary.

A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.

That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient. Foul impurities reigned among the monkish clergy. Atterbury.