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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abbreviation of impersonal.

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Examples

  • He doesn't quite win points with me as an Elvis impers — wait, I mean "tribute artist."

    Harry's life-size Elvis 2007

  • _Libya, Africa_. licet, - ére, - uit or - itum est, impers., _is lawful_ or _permitted_.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • Some impers.vbs. take acc. (as here, Geat) of the person affected; others (as þyncan) take the dat. of the person, as at ll.

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • _Brunanb. _, l. 45 (Bright).l. 1599. gewearð, impers. vb., = _agree, decide = many agreed upon this, that_, etc.

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • _Brunanb. _, l. 45 (Bright).l. 1599. gewearð, impers. vb., = _agree, decide = many agreed upon this, that_, etc.

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Some impers.vbs. take acc. (as here, Geat) of the person affected; others (as þyncan) take the dat. of the person, as at ll.

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • They assemble; impers. from _teca_, to place oneself, to lie down.

    Rig Veda Americanus Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl Various 1868

  • * All the information previously possessed in regard to the S.nto Domingo T.rtiarfes was derived from a Mr.T. S. Heneken, who sent to the Geological S.ciety of London a valuable collection of fossils, which formed the basis of some excellent impers by J. Moore, Geo.

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

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