Im`ma*te"ri*al*ness, n. The state or quality of being immaterial;
immateriality.
Im`ma*te"ri*ate (?), a. Immaterial. [Obs.] Bacon.
Im`ma*ture" (?), a. [L. immaturus; pref. im- not + maturus mature,
ripe. See Mature.] 1. Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of
full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature
character; immature plans. "An ill-measured and immature counsel."
Bacon.
2. Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death. [R.] Jer.
Taylor.
Im`ma*tured" (?), a. Immature.
Im`ma*ture"ly (?), adv. In an immature manner. Warburion.
Im`ma*ture"ness, n. The state or quality of being immature; immaturity.
Boyle.
Im`ma*tu"ri*ty (?), n. [L. immaturitas: cf. F. immaturité.] The state
or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness;
incompleteness.
When the world has outgrown its intellectual immaturity.
Caird.
Im`me*a*bil"i*ty (?), n. [Pref. im- not + L. meabilis passable, fr.
meare to pass.] Want of power to pass, or to permit passage;
impassableness.
Immeability of the juices.
Arbuthnot.
Im*meas`ur*a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being immeasurable;
immensurability.
Im*meas"ur*a*ble (?), a. [Pref. im- not + measurable: cf. F.
measurable. Cf. Immensurable, Unmeasurable.] Incapable of being
measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast.
Of depth immeasurable.
Milton.
Im*meas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. The state or quality of being immeasurable.
Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone.
F. W. Robertson.
Im*meas"ur*a*bly, adv. In an immeasurable manner or degree.
"Immeasurably distant." Wordsworth.
Im*meas"ured (?), a. Immeasurable. [R.] Spenser.
Im`me*chan"ic*al (?), a. Not mechanical. [Obs.] Cheyne. --
Im"me*chan"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]
Im*me"di*a*cy (?), n. The relation of freedom from the interventionof a
medium; immediateness. Shak.
Im*me"di*ate (?), a. [F. immédiat. See In- not, and Mediate.] 1. Not
separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate;
close; as, immediate contact.
You are the most immediate to our throne.
Shak.
2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. "Assemble we
immediate council." Shak.
Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some immediate
stroke.
Milton.
3. 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, an immediate cause.
The immediate knowledge of the past is therefore impossible.
Sir. W. Hamilton.
Immediate amputation (Surg.), an amputation performed within the first
few hours after an injury, and before the the effects of the shock have
passed away.
Syn. -- Proximate; close; direct; next.
Im*me"di*ate*ly (?), adv. 1. In an immediate manner; without
intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; --
opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous.
God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately
by the hands of the bishop.
South.
2. Without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at
once.
And Jesus . . . touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And
immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Matt. viii. 3.