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are or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warmth. Well may he then to you his cares impart. Dryden.

Impartation.

The act of imparting, or the thing imparted. The necessity of this impartation. I. Taylor.

One who imparts.

ng all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.

One who is impartial. [R.] Boyle.

The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as, impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc. Impartiality strips the mind of prejudice and passion. South.

In an impartial manner.

Impartiality. Sir W. Temple.

The quality of being impartible; communicability. Blackstone.

Capable of being imparted or communicated.

The act of imparting, or that which is imparted, communicated, or disclosed. [R.] It beckons you to go away with it, As if it some impartment did desire To you alone. Shak.

Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.

hiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder.

A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.

A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine; a fly wheel.

The act of imparting balsamic properties.

Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. "The beatific vision." South. -- Be`a*tif"ic*al*ly, adv.