Im`per*fec"tion (?), n. [L. imperfectio: cf. F. imperfection. See
Imperfect, a.] The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of
perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.
Sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head.
Shak.
Syn. -- Defect; deficiency; incompleteness; fault; failing; weakness;
frailty; foible; blemish; vice.
Im*per"fect*ness, n. The state of being imperfect.
Im*per"fo*ra*ble (?), a. [See Imperforate.] Incapable of being
perforated, or bored through.
||Im*per"fo*ra"ta (?), n. pl. [NL. See Imperforate.] (Zoöl.) A division
||of Foraminifera, including those in which the shell is not porous.
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{ Im*per"fo*rate (?), Im*per"fo*ra"ted (?), } a. [L. pref. im- not +
perforatus, p. p. of perforate to perforate. See Perforate.] Not
perforated; having no opening or aperture. Sir J. Banks.
Im*per`fo*ra"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. imperforation.] The state of being
without perforation.
Im*pe"ri*al (?), a. [OE. emperial, OF. emperial, F. impérial, fr. L.
imperialis, fr. imperium command, sovereignty, empire. See Empire.] 1.
Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial
government; imperial authority or edict.
The last That wore the imperial diadem of Rome.
Shak.
2. Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields
it; royal; sovereign; supreme. "The imperial democracy of Athens."
Mitford.
Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns With an imperial voice.
Shak.
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial
arts, and worthy thee.
Dryden.
He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle.
E. Everett.
3. Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial paper;
imperial tea, etc.
Imperial bushel, gallon, etc. See Bushel, Gallon, etc. -- Imperial
chamber, the, the sovereign court of the old German empire. -- Imperial
city, under the first German empire, a city having no head but the
emperor. -- Imperial diet, an assembly of all the states of the German
empire. -- Imperial drill. (Manuf.) See under 8th Drill. -- Imperial
eagle. (Zoöl.) See Eagle. -- Imperial green. See Paris green, under
Green. -- Imperial guard, the royal guard instituted by Napoleon I. - -
Imperial weights and measures, the standards legalized by the British
Parliament.