Im-păs-sive-ness, *im-pas-sive-nesse, s

[English impa ive; -ne .] The quality or state of being impa ive; impa ibility; insensibility; apathy. "Remaining in a cal me apathy and impa ivene e in all offencive emergencies." - Mountagu: Devout E ays, pt. i., tr. vi., § 1. Im-păs-tā-tion, s. [Fr., from O. Fr. empaster ; Fr. empáter to impaste (q. v.).] 1. The act or proce of impasting or making into paste. 2. That which is made into paste; spec if., a com- bin at i on of various materials of different colors or consistencies, baked and united by a cement, and hardened by the action of fire or the air; such are works in porcelain, earthenware, imitation marble, . Im-pāste', v . t. [O. Fr.empaster; Fr. empater , from pref. em -(=Lat. in- ), and O. Fr. paste ; Fr. pâte , from Latin pasta paste; Ital. impastare ; Sp. impastar .] 1. Ord . Lang.: To make into paste; to concrete. "Blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons Baked and impasted with the parching streets." Shakesp.: Hamlet , ii. 2. 2. Painting : To lay on, as colors, thickly and boldly. "However they be in themselves incorruptible, imp at ible , and the same."- P . Holland : Plutarch , p. 854.