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adjective

Immovable adj.

1.

Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; used of material things; as, an immovable foundation. "Immovable, infixed, and frozen round."

2.

Steadfast; fixed; unalterable; unchangeable; used of the mind or will; as, an immovable purpose, or a man who remains immovable.

3.

Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive.

4.

(Law.) Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n.

Immovable apparatus (Med.), an appliance, like the plaster of paris bandage, which keeps fractured parts firmly in place.

Immovable feasts (Eccl.), feasts which occur on a certain day of the year and do not depend on the date of Easter; as, Christmas, the Epiphany, etc.

noun

Immovable n.

1.

That which can not be moved.

2.

pl. (Civil Law) Lands and things adherent thereto by nature, as trees; by the hand of man, as buildings and their accessories; by their destination, as seeds, plants, manure, etc.; or by the objects to which they are applied, as servitudes.

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Etymology of 'Immovable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Immovable" Quotes from Famous Books

... life. Of course, one's always mildly interested in one's friends' marriages, hoping they'll turn out well and all that; but this was different. The average man isn't like Bobbie, and the average girl isn't like Mary. It was that old business of the immovable mass and the irresistible force. There was Bobbie, ambling gently through life, a dear old chap in a hundred ways, but undoubtedly a chump of the ...

— My Man Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse

... Century, it was supposed by our stupid ancestors that the Earth was the center of all creation, being a large, flat body resting on a rock which rested on another rock, and so on "all the way down"; and that the Sun, planets and immovable stars all revolved about ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) • Various

... The survivor still clung here, and Zeb—who had been vaguely wondering how on earth he contrived to keep his seat and yet hold on by the rope without being torn limb from limb—now discovered this end of the mast to be so tightly jammed and tangled against the wreck as practically to be immovable. The man's face was about as scaring as the corpses'; for, catching sight of Zeb, he betrayed no surprise, but only looked back wistfully over his left shoulder, while his blue lips worked without sound. At least, ...

— I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... old words which have now each two exactly opposite meanings. The word fast means sometimes "immovable," and sometimes it means the exact opposite—"moving rapidly." We say a key is "fast" in a lock when we cannot get it out, and we say a person runs "fast" when we mean that he runs quickly. The first meaning of steadiness is the original meaning; then the word came to be used ...

— Stories That Words Tell Us • Elizabeth O'Neill

... felt as if I were converted into cold, heavy stone; I could not get my breath. As I stood there immovable my mother seized me by the arm. "Come, Nathanael! do come along!" I suffered myself to be led away; I went into my room. "Be a good boy and keep quiet," mother called after me; "get into bed and go to sleep." But, tortured by indescribable fear and ...

— Weird Tales. Vol. I • E. T. A. Hoffmann

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