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IMPERSONAL VERB

Volume 2 · 60 words · 1771 Edition

in grammar, a verb to which the nominative of any certain person cannot be prefixed; or, as others define it, a verb destitute of the two first and primary persons, as decet, eperet, &c.

IMPEVIOUS, a thing not to be pervaded nor passed thro', either by reason of the closeness of its pores, or the particular configuration of its parts.