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(im-port’), v. [= OF. emporter, imp or- ter, carry, F'. emporter, carry away, prevail, importer, cently, import, nify, in, sion, Cf. without; bring state, to their ported. Hence—2., connection, port mate tion humanity tist 3. tion; and tablishment arms. 4. quence than Politics, any tmport portance. face import away, verb: ed especially, try posed conquests, derived 2. thing; pretation speech, as, equal defend 8. import Kinde =Syn. importable! table, -able.] importable2t able, importable importevole, cannot + able.] ried importable import, matter, signify; also, more rein the lit. sense of the L., introduce, = Sp. Pg. importar = It. import are, sig expre , ¢ L. import are, in port are, bring introduce from abroad, bring about, occacause, ¢ in, in, + port are, carry: see ports. export, ete.] I. trans. To bring from introduce from abroad; especially, to from a foreign country, or from another into one’s own country or state: opposed export: as, to import wares and merchandise. Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. Pope, Dunciad, iv. 596. From Greece they [the Latins] derived the measures of poetry, and, indeed, all of poetry that can be im- Macaulay, History. Wheat and corn are extensively imported into Cork. Encye. Brit., VI. 406. To bring or introduce from one use, or relation into another: as, to i mir relevant matter into a discu ion. There is also such a thing as a consciousne of the ultiunity of all pursuits that contribute to the perfecof man, which may import a certain enthusiasm of into the devotion with which the scholar or arapplies himself to his immediate object. T. H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, § 148. To bear or convey in meaning or implica~ signify; mean; denote; betoken. His [God's] commanding those things to be which are, to be in such sort as they are, tmporteth the esof nature’s law. Hooker, Eccles, Polity, i. 3. The me age imported that they should deliver up their Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. 92. Pan, as the name imports, represents the universe. Bacon, Fable of Pan. To be of importance, interest, or conseto; concern; have a bearing upon. Her length of sickne , with what else more serious Import eth thee to know, this bears. Shak., A. and C., i. 2. All Men know there is nothing imports this Island more Trade, Howell, Letters, I. vi. 52. In these four sciences, Logic, Morals, Criticism, and is comprehended almost everything which it can way import us to be acquainted with. Hume, Human Nature, Int. You never will know the two things in the world that you the most to know. Walpole, Letters, II. 406. II. in trans. To have significance; be of im- It is the depth at which we live, and not at all the sur extension, that imports. Emerson, Works and Days, p. 164. (import), n. [= OF. emport, a carrying influence, favor, importance; from the see import, v.} 1. That which is import or brought from without or from abroad; merchandise brought into one counfrom another: usually in the plural: opto export. I take the tmports from, and not the exports to, these as the measure of these advantages which we from them. Burke, Late State of the Nation. Whatever shadings of mortality, Whatever imports from the world of death Had come among these objects heretofore, Were, in the main, of mood le tender. Words worth, Prelude, iv, The intrinsic meaning conveyed by any the significance borne by, or the inter to be drawn from, an event, action, writing, or the like; purport; bearing: the import of one’s conduct. The oath of the President contains three words, all of import: that is, that he will preserve, protect, and the Constitution. D. Webster, Speech, Senate, May 7, 1834. Ha! how the murmur deepens! I perceive And tremble at its dreadful import. Bryant, Earth. Importance; consequence; moment. I will propound to your learned imitation those men of that haue laboured with credit in this laudable of Translation, |Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 3. And tell us, what occasion of import Hath all so long detain’d you from your wife. Shak., T. of the §., iii. 2. Such idle Themes no more can move, Nor any thing but what’s of high Import. Congreve, Paraphrase upon Horace, I, xix. 2. 2. Sense, gist, tenor, substance. (im-por’ta-bl), a. [= OF. emporthat can be carried away}; as import + Capable of being imported. (im-por’ta-bl), a. [« ME. import in portable, importable This storie is seyd nat for that wyves sholde Folwen Grisild as in humilitee, For it were importable, though they wolde. Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 1058. Burdons that ben importable On folkes shuldris thinges they couchen That they nyl with her fyngris touchen. Rom. of the Rose, 1. 6904. The tempest would be importable if it beat always upon him from all sides. Life of Firmin, p. 80. importable ne } (im-por’ta-bl-nes), ». The quality or state of being unendurable. But when, by time and continuance, the mind is accustomed to it, though the yoke be the same, yet it finds no such severity and importable ne in it. pb Sir M. Hale, Preparative against Affliction. importance (im-pér’tans), ». [= F. importance = Sp. Pg. import an cia = It. importanza,