Pronunciations (6)
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/ˈɪm.pə.ɹeɪt/
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/ˈɪm.pɚ.eɪt/
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/ˈɪm.pə.ɹɪt/
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/ˈɪm.pə.ɹət/
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/ˈɪm.pɚ.ɪt/
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/ˈɪm.pɚ.ət/
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Verb
To command.
Usage- Rare
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There be duties […] imperated or governed by religion.
To rule, govern.
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A Law differs from Counsel, as my Understanding differs from my Will: my Will is that which imperates all my actions my Understanding informs my Will, whether the doing or not not doing such an act be good or bad, just or unjust, reasonable or unreasonable.
To direct, motivate.
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The act of the will that precedes and imperates faith is not yet the love of charity but rather an intention or desire to love.
Adjective
Done by express direction; not involuntary; commanded.
Usage- not-comparable
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imperate acts; imperate actions
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And because I find that the remoteſt Muſcle in my Body moves at the command of my Will, and ſince I ſee the energy of my Soul in every particle of my Body, though not uſing intellectual actions in every part, yet uſing ſome that are imperate, as Local Motion; […]
The will by an imperate act commands the assent of the intellect to the truth revealed by God.
Imperated.
Usage- not-comparable
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Than Venus said in mind half stomachat, Of the assyis nane salbe alterat. As for the Roll, gif thay pleis, reid agane. Than said Vesta to Venus, weill I wait Ȝe aucht not be baith Iudge and Aduocat. For and sa be, it is wrang ȝe do plane, Than said Venus with mind almaist Insane. It salbe sa as I haif Imperat. Than said Vesta, Iustice can not remane.
3. Again, there be very many Operations, that although they flow from this active Principle, yet they are not acts that are imperate by the Will, but they are in a manner natural and unvoluntary; and therefore I call them ſometimes Involuntary, ſometimes Natural, and they are very many and various; ſuch are many of the acts of Senſe, eſspecially the external.