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Having a redundant syllable; exceeding the common measure. Hypermetrical verse (Gr. & Lat. Pros.), a verse which contains a syllable more than the ordinary measure.

One who is versed in hypnology.

A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."

Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.

One of several species of wild goats having very large, recurved horns, transversely ridged in front; -- called also steinbok.

One versed in, or who studies, ichthyology.

One who treats of ideas; one who theorizes or idealizes; one versed in the science of ideas, or who advocates the doctrines of ideology.

ots, of the vulgar people, and of the simpler sort, while he was rejected, despised, and persecuted even to death by the high priests, lawyers, scribes, doctors, and rabbis. C. Blount.

Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow.

roposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc. Illative conversion (Logic), a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true. -- Illative sense (Metaph.), the faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the conditions and determines upon t…

To plungel into, under, or within anything especially a fuid; to dip; to immerse. See Immerse. We took . . . lukewarm water, and in it immerged a quantity of the leaves of senna. Boyle. Their souls are immerged in matter. Jer. Taylor.

Capable of being immersed.

The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.

Time given to a party to talk or converse with his opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an amicable adjustment of the suit. The actual object, however, has long been merely to obtain further time to plead, answer to the allegations of the opposite party.

The quality of being imperishable: indstructibility. "The imperishability of the universe." Milman.

ascribe, or attribute. [Obs.] Whence might this distaste arise If [from] neither your perverse and peevish will. To which I most imply it. J. Webster.

Offhand; without previous study; extemporaneous; extempore; as, an impromptu verse.

To compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously.

le of holding a certain quantity of liquid; incapable of endurance, of comprehension, of perseverance, of reform, etc.

Not conversant; not acquainted; not versed; unfamiliar.