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The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness. Shak.

Freedom from mixture; purity. [R.] W. Montagu.

Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.

The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as, impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc. Impartiality strips the mind of prejudice and passion. South.

n; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct. And doth impeach the freedom of the state. Shak.

e; a skew arch. -- Imperfect cadence (Mus.), one not ending with the tonic, but with the dominant or some other chord; one not giving complete rest; a half close. -- Imperfect consonances (Mus.), chords like the third and sixth, whose ratios are less simple than those of the fifth and forth. -- Imperfect flower (Bot…

Supreme power; absolute dominion; empire.

Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness; quietude. W. Montagu.

ow. A hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved. Addison. The court seldom fails to improve the oppotunity. Blackstone. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour. I. Watts. Those moments were diligently improved. Gibbon. True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to impr…

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

Freedom from affectation; naturalness. [R.]

ure by appropriate ceremonies. At his regal inauguration, his old father resigned the kingdom to him. Sir T. Browne.

f uniting lands, rights, or revenues, to the ecclesiastical chamber, i. e., to the pope's domain.

Freedom from confusion; distinctness. [Obs.] Bacon.

Freedom or exemption from decay or corruption.

The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self- subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope.…

Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias. He . . . is far from such indifference and equity as ought and must be in judges which he saith I assign. Sir T. More.

irly; wrongly. To tax it indirectly by taxing their expense. A. Smith. Your crown and kingdom indirectly held. Shak.

Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose; apathy; indifference.

Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [Obs.] I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough.