Part 5630

<blockquote>There sat a certain man at Lystra, <b>impotent</b> inhis feet. <i>Acts xiv. 8.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>O most lame and <b>impotent</b> conclusion! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Not slow to hear, Nor <b>impotent</b> to save. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent.</def>

<blockquote><b>Impotent</b> of tongue, her silence broke. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren.</def>

<h1>Impotent</h1> <Xpage=737>

<hw>Im"po*tent</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who is imoitent.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Impotently</h1> <Xpage=737>

<hw>Im"po*tent*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an impotent manner.</def>

<h1>Impound</h1> <Xpage=737>

<hw>Im*pound"</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Impounded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Impounding</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To shut up or place in an inclosure called a <i>pound</i>; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; <as>as, to <ex>impound</ex> stray cattle; to <ex>impound</ex> a document for safe keeping.</as></def>

<blockquote>But taken and <b>impounded</b> as a stray, The king of Scots. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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<h1>Impoundage</h1> <Xpage=738>

<hw>Im*pound"age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The fee or fine for impounding.</def>

<h1>Impounder</h1> <Xpage=738>

<hw>Im*pound"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who impounds.</def>

<h1>Impoverish</h1> <Xpage=738>

<hw>Im*pov"er*ish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Impoverished</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Impoverishing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OF. <ets>empovrir</ets>; pref. <ets>em-</ets> (L. <ets>in</ets>) + <ets>povre</ets> poor, F. <ets>pauvre</ets>; cf. OF. <ets>apovrir</ets>, F. <ets>appauvrir</ets>, where the prefix is <ets>a-</ets>, L. <ets>ad</ets>. Cf. <er>Empoverish</er>, and see <er>Poor</er>, and <er>-ish</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; <as>as, misfortune and disease <ex>impoverish</ex> families</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; <as>as, to <ex>impoverish</ex> land</as>.</def>

<h1>Impoverisher</h1> <Xpage=738>

<hw>Im*pov"er*ish*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, impoverishes.</def>

<h1>Impoverishment</h1> <Xpage=738>

<hw>Im*pov"er*ish*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>empoverissement</ets>, and F. <ets>appauvrissement</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.</def>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>