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Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity (Alg.), an algebraic expression which involves the impossible operation of taking…

hodical; without method or systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused. Addison.

Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

en with what life remains, impaled, and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake. Addison.

patient 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.

e. When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station. Addison.

mplex, when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad. Addison.

iv. 8. O most lame and impotent conclusion! Shak. Not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. Addison.

To become pregnant. Addison.

or done offhand, at the moment, or without previous study; an extemporaneous composition, address, or remark.

by the exercise of his faculties. Sir M. Hale. I have a fine spread of improvable lands. Addison.

committed to us. Barrow. 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 opi…

ld. The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet. Addison.

Let us be careful to guard ourselves against these groundless imputation of our enemies. Addison.

ve; to end in death; to put our trust in God. He would not plunge his brother in despair. Addison. She had no jewels to deposit in their caskets. Fielding.

nfinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact. Addison.

Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.

To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community. Addison.

Incognito. [Colloq.] Depend upon it -- he'll remain incog. Addison.

of our corruption, that therinconsiderate among us as to sacrifice morality to politics. Addison.