Vicious; bad; unlucky.

Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example.

This ill day

A most outrageous fit of madness took him.

Henry 8, iv. 2.

Comedy of Errors, v. 1.

purpose.

ILL-ERECTED. Built for a bad

This is the way

To Julius Cæsar's ill-erected tower. Richard 2, v. 1.

ILL-INHABITED. Ill-lodged.

O knowledge ill-inhabited,-worse than Jove in
As you like it, iii. 3.

a thatched house!

ILL-NURTURED. Ill-educated.

Presumptuous dame, ill-nurtur'd Eleanor!

Henry 6, P. 2, i. 2.

ILL-TAKEN. Unjust; groundless; unfounded.
Good expedition be my friend, and comfort
The gracious queen, part of his theme, but nothing
Of his ill-ta'en suspicion ! Winter's Tale, i. 2.

ILLNESS. Evil disposition; iniquity.

Thou wouldst be great;

Art not without ambition; but without
The illness should attend it.

Macbeth, i. 5.

TO ILLUME. To illuminate; to light.
When yond same star that's westward from the pole
Had made his course to illume that part of heaven
Where now it burns.
Hamlet, i. 1.

ILLUSTRATE. Illustrious.

The magnanimous and most illustrate king Cophetua set eye upon the pernicious and indubitate beggar Penelophon. Love's Labour's lost, iv. 1. IMAGE. Scheme; plan; representation. The image of the jest I'll show you here at large.

Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 6. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Hamlet, iii. 2. Is this the promis'd end? Or image of that horror? King Lear, v. 3.

Thou art a villain to impeach me thus.
Comedy of Errors, v. 1.
He plies the duke at morning and at night;
And doth impeach the freedom of the state,
If they deny him justice. Merchant of Venice, iii. 2.
You do impeach your modesty too much
To leave the city, and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you

not.
Midsummer-Night's Dream, ii. 1.
Whate'er Lord Harry Percy then had said
May reasonably die, and never rise
To do him wrong, or any way impeach
What then he said, so he unsay it now.

IMPORTANCE.

Not the imperious show

Of the full-fortun'd Cæsar ever shall

Be brooch'd with me. Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 15.
The imperious seas breed monsters; for the dish
Poor tributary rivers as sweet fish. Cymbeline, iv. 2.
Imperious Cæsar, dead and turn'd to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.

IMPLORATOR.

Hamlet, v. 1.

An implorer; a solicitor.

Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers, Not of that dye which their investments show, But mere implorators of unholy suits. Hamlet, i. 3. IMPONED. Impawned; staked; wagered.

Against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards with their assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so. Hamlet, v. 2. IMPORT. Importance; consequence.

The letter was not nice, but full of charge
Of dear import.
Romeo and Juliet, v. 2.

And tell us, what occasion of import
Hath all so long detain'd you from your wife,
And sent you hither so unlike yourself?

Taming of the Shrew, iii. 2.
If't be not for some purpose of import,
Give't me again.

Othello, iii. 3.

TO IMPORT. To imply; to indicate; to con

cern.

To be your prisoner should import offending.

Winter's Tale, i. 2. The fit and apt construction of thy name, Being Leo-natus, doth import so much.

Cymbeline, v. 5.

Belike this show imports the argument of the play.

Hamlet, iii. 2.

Next, it imports no reason,
That with such vehemency he should pursue
Faults proper to himself.

Measure for Measure, v. 1.
Larded with many several sorts of reasons,
Importing Denmark's health, and England's too.
Hamlet, v. 2.

It doth import him much to speak with me.
Troilus and Cressida, iv. 2.

IMPORTANCE. Importunity; subject; matter.

Maria writ

The letter at Sir Toby's great importance.

Twelfth Night, v. 1.

IMPORTANT.

At our importance hither is he come.

King John, ii. 1. But the wisest beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow. Winter's Tale, v. 2. It had been pity you should have been put together with so mortal a purpose as then each bore, upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature. Cymbeline, i. 4.

IMPORTANT. Urgent; importunate.

Who I made lord of me and all I had,

At your important letters. Comedy of Errors, v. 1.
Therefore great France

My mourning and important tears hath pitied.
King Lear, iv. 4.
Now his important blood will naught deny
That she'll demand. All's well that ends well, iii. 7.

IMPORTING. Important; weighty; serious.

Her business looks in her with an importing visage. All's well that ends well, v. 3.

IMPORTLESS. Trifling; unimportant.

Speak, Prince of Ithaca; and be't of less expect
That matter needless, of importless burden,
Divide thy lips.

Troilus and Cressida, i. 3.

IMPOSITION. Injunction; condition; restraint; penalty.

They have acquainted me with their determina-
tions; which is, indeed, to trouble you with no
more suit, unless you may be won by some other
sort than your father's imposition, depending on
the caskets.
Merchant of Venice, i. 2.

Let death and honesty
Go with your impositions, I am yours
Upon your will to suffer.

All's well that ends well, iv. 4.

For the encouragement of the like, which else would stand under grievous imposition.