imporous

English

Etymology

From im- +‎ porous.

Adjective

imporous (not comparable)

1. not porous; not having pores
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     having its earthy and salinous parts so exactly resolved, that its body is left imporous, and not discreted by atomical terminations

   • 1892, “Lucifer: A Theosophical Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     If magnetism were not an immaterial substance, then any practically imporous body intervening between the magnet and the attracted object would, to some extent at least, impede the passage of the magnetic current

Derived terms

• imporosity

References

• “imporous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.