<B>immoderacy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> lack of moderation; excess. <BR> <I>Ex. Creatively, Marlowe matches his hero's immoderacies; he shows a like hunger and fever, a commensurate strut and rant (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="immoderate">
<B>immoderate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>not moderate; too much; going too far; extreme; more than is right or proper. <BR> <I>Ex. loud and immoderate laughter. A fanatic has immoderate ideas.</I> (SYN) excessive, intemperate, exorbitant, inordinate. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) without limits; boundless. adv. <B>immoderately.</B> noun <B>immoderateness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="immoderation">
<B>immoderation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> lack of moderation; excess. </DL>
<A NAME="immodest">
<B>immodest, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>not modest; bold and rude. (SYN) forward, impudent. <DD><B> 2. </B>indecent; improper; indelicate. <BR> <I>Ex. Immodest words admit of no defence For want of decency is want of sense (Wentworth Dillon).</I> (SYN) lewd, obscene. adv. <B>immodestly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="immodesty">
<B>immodesty, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>lack of modesty; boldness and rudeness. <DD><B> 2. </B>lack of decency; improper behavior. </DL>
<A NAME="immolate">
<B>immolate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-lated,</B> <B>-lating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to kill as a sacrifice. <BR> <I>Ex. The women and children were immolated on funeral pyres (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to offer in sacrifice; sacrifice. </DL>
<A NAME="immolation">
<B>immolation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of immolating. <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being immolated. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a sacrificial offering; sacrifice. </DL>
<A NAME="immolator">
<B>immolator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who offers in sacrifice. </DL>
<B>immoralist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who advocates or accepts immorality; one who justifies evil in himself or others. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who is immoral. </DL>
<A NAME="immorality">
<B>immorality, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>wickedness; wrongdoing; vice. <DD><B> 2. </B>lewdness; lack of chastity. (SYN) unchastity. <DD><B> 3. </B>an immoral act or practice. </DL>
<A NAME="immortal">
<B>immortal, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>living forever; never dying; everlasting. <BR> <I>Ex. Most churches believe that a man's body dies, but his soul is said to be immortal. The fame of Shakespeare should be immortal.</I> (SYN) eternal, endless, unfading, imperishable. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with immortal beings or immortality; divine. <BR> <I>Ex. These be they that have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal (II Esdras 2:45).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>remembered or famous forever. <BR> <I>Ex. the immortal power of Winston Churchill's wartime speeches. A great hero is immortal.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an immortal being. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person remembered or famous forever. <BR> <I>Ex. Shakespeare is one of the immortals.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B><B>Immortal,</B> one of the forty members of the French Academy. <BR> <I>Ex. Marguerite Yourcenar, a 76-year-old respected French classicist and novelist--had finally been elected an Immortal (Maclean's).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>immortals,</B> </I>the gods of ancient Greece and Rome. <BR> <I>Ex. Never, believe me, appear the immortals ... alone (Samuel Taylor Coleridge).</I> adv. <B>immortally.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="immortality">
<B>immortality, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>endless life; living forever. <BR> <I>Ex. The Greeks believed in the immortality of their gods; many believe in the immortality of the soul.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>fame that lasts forever. <BR> <I>Ex. the immortality of the great achievements of Newton and Einstein.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="immortalization">
<B>immortalization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of immortalizing. <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being immortalized. </DL>
<A NAME="immortalize">
<B>immortalize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make immortal. <DD><B> 2. </B>to cause to be remembered or famous forever; give everlasting fame to. <BR> <I>Ex. Great authors are immortalized by their works.</I> noun <B>immortalizer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="immortals">
<B>immortals, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>immortal.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="immortelle">
<B>immortelle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several composite plants whose flowers keep their shape and color after they have entirely dried, such as an annual with rose or purple flowers, native to the Mediterranean; everlasting. </DL>
<A NAME="immotile">
<B>immotile, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> not motile; incapable of movement. </DL>
<A NAME="immovability">
<B>immovability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition of being immovable. </DL>
<A NAME="immovable">
<B>immovable, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>that cannot be moved; firmly fixed. <BR> <I>Ex. immovable mountains.</I> (SYN) immobile. <DD><B> 2. </B>not moving or changing; motionless. <BR> <I>Ex. In his [Newton's] eyes the sun stood immovable in the center of the universe (Sir David Brewster).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) firm; steadfast; unyielding. <BR> <I>Ex. an immovable purpose. The ignorant man was immovable in his belief that the earth was flat.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) unfeeling; impassive. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Law.) not liable to be removed; fixed in place. <BR> <I>Ex. immovable property.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>falling on the same date each year. <BR> <I>Ex. All Saints' Day is an immovable feast.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>immovables,</B> (Law.) land, buildings, and other property that cannot be carried from one place to another. <BR> <I>Ex. If he has property, it consists either in immovables or in movables (Jeremy Bentham).</I> noun <B>immovableness.</B> adv. <B>immovably.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="immune">
<B>immune, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1a. </B>protected from disease or poison; not susceptible; having immunity. <BR> <I>Ex. Some persons are immune to poison ivy. Vaccination makes a person practically immune to polio.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>having to do with or producing immunity. <BR> <I>Ex. an immune reaction.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>free (from); exempt. <BR> <I>Ex. immune from taxes. Nobody is immune from criticism.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>protected; shielded. <BR> <I>Ex. Among the graves, she felt immune from the world (D. H. Lawrence).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> an immune person or animal. </DL>
<A NAME="immunebody">
<B>immune body,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an antibody present in blood and lymph that assists in the cytolysis of erythrocytes and other cells; amboceptor. </DL>
<A NAME="immuneserum">
<B>immune serum,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a serum in which antibodies to a particular disease are present, especially in increased number as a result of stimulation by an antigen. <BR> <I>Ex. Injections of an immune serum (from the blood of a person who has recovered from the disease) and a vaccine provide limited resistance to attack (Austin Edward Smith).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="immunity">
<B>immunity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>resistance to disease or poison. <BR> <I>Ex. One attack of measles usually gives a person immunity to that disease.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>freedom; protection. <BR> <I>Ex. The law gives schools and churches immunity from taxation. Ambassadors have diplomatic immunity in the countries in which they are stationed.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>exemption from natural liability or from anything evil. </DL>
<A NAME="immunize">
<B>immunize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-nized,</B> <B>-nizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to protect from disease or poison; give immunity to; make immune. <BR> <I>Ex. Vaccination immunizes one against smallpox.</I> noun <B>immunization.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="immuno">
<B>immuno-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) immunity; immunization, as in <I>immunobiology, immunoreaction.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="immunoadsorbent">
<B>immunoadsorbent, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a chemical substance that adsorbs antigens or antibodies. <BR> <I>Ex. The antigens cling to the antibodies and when the immunoadsorbent is removed the antigens come with it (Science News).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="immunoassay">
<B>immunoassay, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> analysis of the characteristics of a bodily substance by testing its immunological or antibody-producing reactions. </DL>
<A NAME="immunobiology">
<B>immunobiology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of biological immunity or immunization. </DL>
<A NAME="immunochemical">
<B>immunochemical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with immunochemistry. adv. <B>immunochemically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="immunochemistry">
<B>immunochemistry, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the science dealing with chemical relationships of immunology. noun <B>immunochemist.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="immunocompetence">
<B>immunocompetence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the ability to produce immunity. </DL>
<A NAME="immunocompetent">
<B>immunocompetent, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> capable of producing or developing immunity to disease. <BR> <I>Ex. The antibody-forming cells are frequently designated as immunocompetent cells (Felix Haurowitz).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="immunocompromised">
<B>immunocompromised, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> made vulnerable to a disease or opportunistic infection by a deficiency in the immune system. <BR> <I>Ex. The [Epstein-Barr] virus is a causative co-factor of some cancers ... in patients who are profoundly immunocompromised, e.g. by AIDS (Allen D. Allen).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="immunocyte">
<B>immunocyte, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any cell, such as a lymphoid or plasma cell, that is a part of the mechanism of immunization. <BR> <I>Ex. The autoimmune process and the surveillance mechanism are both attributed to the same system of thymus-dependent immunocytes (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="immunodeficiencydisease">
<B>immunodeficiency disease,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any disease caused by a deficiency in the immunity mechanism of the body. </DL>
<A NAME="immunodiffusion">
<B>immunodiffusion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a process for separating the components of an antigen-antibody complex by the diffusion of antigen and antibody solutions through a gel. </DL>
