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An impassable road or way; a blind alley; cul-de-sac; fig., a position or predicament affording no escape.

The quality or condition of being impassible; insusceptibility of injury from external things.

Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation. "Impassible to the critic." Sir W. Scott. Secure of death, I should contemn thy dart Though naked, and impassible depart. Dryden.

Impassibility.

To move or affect strongly with passion. [Archaic] Chapman.

Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.

To affect powerfully; to arouse the passions of. Dr. H. More.

Actuated or characterized by passion or zeal; showing warmth of feeling; ardent; animated; excited; as, an impassioned orator or discourse.

Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.

The quality of being insusceptible of feeling, pain, or suffering; impassiveness.

The act of making into paste; that which is formed into a paste or mixture; specifically, a combination of different substances by means of cements.

To knead; to make into paste; to concrete. "Blood . . . baked and impasted." Shak.

The laying on of colors to produce impasto.

The thickness of the layer or body of pigment applied by the painter to his canvas with especial reference to the juxtaposition of different colors and tints in forming a harmonious whole. Fairholt.

To place in a pasture; to foster. [R.] T. Adams.

See Encompass.

Want of compassion or pity. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.

An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called also lampers.

Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle.