Impending
(Im*pend"ing), a. Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening.
An impending brow.
Hawthorne.
And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall.
Pope. Syn. — Imminent; threatening. See Imminent.
Impenetrability
(Im*pen`e*tra*bil"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. impénétrabilité.]
1. Quality of being impenetrable.
2. (Physics) That property in virtue of which two portions of matter can not at the same time occupy
the same portion of space.
3. Insusceptibility of intellectual or emotional impression; obtuseness; stupidity; coldness.
Impenetrable
(Im*pen"e*tra*ble) a. [L. impenetrabilis; pref. im- not + penetrabilis penetrable: cf. F.
impénétrable.]
1. Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as,
an impenetrable shield.
Highest woods impenetrable
To star or sunlight.
Milton. 2. (Physics) Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at
the same time.
3. Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.; unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments
or motives; as, an impenetrable mind, or heart.
They will be credulous in all affairs of life, but impenetrable by a sermon of the gospel.
Jer. Taylor. Impenetrableness
(Im*pen"e*tra*ble*ness) n. The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.
Impenetrably
(Im*pen"e*tra*bly), adv. In an impenetrable manner or state; imperviously. "Impenetrably
armed." Milton. "Impenetrably dull." Pope.
Impenitence
(Im*pen"i*tence) n. [L. impenitentia: cf. F. impénitence.] The condition of being impenitent; failure
or refusal to repent; hardness of heart.
He will advance from one degree of wickedness and impenitence to another.
Rogers. Impenitency
(Im*pen"i*ten*cy) n. Impenitence. Milton.
Impenitent
(Im*pen"i*tent) a. [L. impaenitens; pref. im- not + paenitens penitens: cf. F. impénitent.
See Penitent.] Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart. "They . . . died impenitent."
Milton. "A careless and impenitent heart." Bp. Hall.
Impenitent
(Im*pen"i*tent), n. One who is not penitent. [R.]
Impenitently
(Im*pen"i*tent*ly), adv. Without repentance.
Impennate
(Im*pen"nate) a. (Zoöl.) Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling
scales, as the penguins. — n. One of the Impennes.
