Part 5574

<hw>Im*meas"ur*a*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state or quality of being immeasurable.</def>

<blockquote>Eternity and <b>immeasurableness</b> belong to thought alone. <i>F. W. Robertson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Immeasurably</h1> <Xpage=731>

<hw>Im*meas"ur*a*bly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an immeasurable manner or degree.</def> "<i>Immeasurably</i> distant."

<i>Wordsworth.</i>

<h1>Immeasured</h1> <Xpage=731>

<hw>Im*meas"ured</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Immeasurable.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Immechanical</h1> <Xpage=731>

<hw>Im`me*chan"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Not mechanical.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Cheyne</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>Im"me*chan"ic*al*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> <mark>[Obs.]</mark></wordforms>

<h1>Immediacy</h1> <Xpage=731>

<hw>Im*me"di*a*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Immediate</h1> <Xpage=731>

<hw>Im*me"di*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>imm\'82diat</ets>. See <er>In-</er> not, and <er>Mediate</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; <as>as, <ex>immediate</ex> contact</as>.</def>

<blockquote>You are the most <b>immediate</b> to our throne. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.</def> "Assemble we <i>immediate</i> council."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some <b>immediate</b> stroke. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; <as>as, an <ex>immediate</ex> cause</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>immediate</b> knowledge of the past is therefore impossible. <i>Sir. W. Hamilton.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Immediate amputation</col> <fld>(Surg.)</fld>, <cd>an amputation performed within the first few hours after an injury, and before the the effects of the shock have passed away.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Proximate; close; direct; next.</syn>

<h1>Immediately</h1> <Xpage=731>

<hw>Im*me"di*ate*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to <i>mediately</i>; <as>as, <ex>immediately</ex> contiguous</as>.</def>

<blockquote>God's acceptance of it either <b>immediately</b> by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at once.</def>

<blockquote>And Jesus . . . touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And <b>immediately</b> his leprosy was cleansed. <i>Matt. viii. 3.</i></blockquote>