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The necessity of this impartation.

I. Taylor.

Im*part"er (?), n. One who imparts.

Im*par"tial (?), a. [Pref. im- not + partial: cf. F. impartial.] Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak.

Jove is impartial, and to both the same.

Dryden.

A comprehensive and impartial view.

Macaulay.

Im*par"tial*ist, n. One who is impartial. [R.] Boyle.

Im*par`ti*al"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. impartialité.] 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.

Im*par"tial*ly (?), a. In an impartial manner.

Im*par"tial*ness, n. Impartiality. Sir W. Temple.

Im*part`i*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being impartible; communicability. Blackstone.

Im*part`i*bil"i*ty, n. [Cf. F. impartibilité.] The quality of being incapable of division into parts; indivisibility. Holland.

Im*part"i*ble (?), a. [From Impart.] Capable of being imparted or communicated.

Im*part"i*ble, a. [Pref. im- not + partible: cf. F. impartible.] Not partible; not subject to partition; indivisible; as, an impartible estate. Blackstone.

Im*part"ment (?), n. 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.

Im*pass"a*ble (?), a. [Cf. Unpassable.] Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf. Milton. -- Im*pass"a*ble*ness, n. - - Im*pass"a*bly, adv.

Im*pas`si*bil"i*ty (?), a. [L. impassibilitas: cf. F. impassibilité.] The quality or condition of being impassible; insusceptibility of injury from external things.

Im*pas"si*ble (?), a. [L. impassibilis; pref. im- not + passibilis passable: cf. F. impassible. See Passible.] 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.

Im*pas"si*ble*ness, n. Impassibility.

Im*pas"sion (?), v. t. [Pref. im- in + passion. Cf. Empassion, Impassionate, v.] To move or affect strongly with passion. [Archaic] Chapman.