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The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity. O'ercome with importunity and tears. Milton.

The act of impressing or making.

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors. The great scandal of our naval service -- impressment -- died a protracted death. J. H. Burton.

A series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our Lord with his people; -- sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual. Grove.

Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative. -- In*cep"tive*ly, adv.

Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb. "Some inchoative or imperfect rays." W. Montagu. -- n.

A teaching and impressing by frequent repetitions. Bp. Hall.

Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or manner.

To point out with the finger; to indicate. [Obs.] The depressing this finger, . . . in the right hand indigitate six hundred. Sir T. Browne.

Incapable of being eluded or evaded; unvoidable. Most pressing reasons and ineludible demonstrations. Glanvill.

Not expressing meaning; not significant.

se to give way; to hold to something firmly or determinedly; to be persistent, urgent, or pressing; to persist in demanding; -- followed by on, upon, or that; as, he insisted on these conditions; he insisted on going at once; he insists that he must have money. Insisting on the old prerogative. Shak. Without further in…

The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.

The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. Undertook at her instance to restore them. Sir W. Scott.

Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. Rom. xii. 12. I am beginning to be very instant for some sort of occupation. Carlyle.

With urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly. "They besought him instantly." Luke vii. 4.

Applied to a case expressing means or agency; as, the instrumental case. This is found in Sanskrit as a separate case, but in Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms. Instrumental errors, those er…

An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.

Containing, expressing, or implying a question; as, an interrogatory sentence.