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Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.

Pertaining to a governor, or to government.

The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon; dog's-grass.

Historical. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Situated below an artery; applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off below the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.

A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.

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

The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible.

One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.

The state or quality of being immaterial or incorporeal; as, the immateriality of the soul.

To render immaterial or incorporeal. Immateralized spirits. Glanvill.

In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance.

The state or quality of being immaterial; immateriality.

reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial. "Immemorial elms." Tennyson. "Immemorial usage or custom." Sir M. Hale. Time immemorial (Eng. Law.), a time antedating (legal) history, and beyond "legal memory" so called; formerly an indefinite time, but in 1276 this time…

Beyond memory. Bentley.

Of or pertaining to the title or office of imperator. "Imperatorial laurels." C. Merivale.

Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict. The last That wore the imperial diadem of Rome. Shak.

The power or character of an emperor; imperial authority; the spirit of empire. Roman imperialism had divided the world. C. H. Pearson.

One who serves an emperor; one who favors imperialism.

Imperial power.