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Immovable   /ɪmˈuvəbəl/   Listen
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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"Immovable" Quotes from Famous Books



... daughter was a true British matron, and preserved a quiet, immovable countenance; only a grim smile passed over it now and then. At last she remarked coolly, as if commenting on the weather, "I don't believe she will trouble you, my son." Never a word about the lace episode or the ...
— Five Little Peppers Abroad • Margaret Sidney
... Faraday had only seen him once or twice before, and judged from remarks made to him by acquaintances of the family that Eddie did not often honor the parental roof with his presence. Eddie's irregular career appeared to be the one subject on which the family maintained an immovable and melancholy reserve. The disappointment in his only son was the bitter ...
— The Spinner's Book of Fiction • Various
... allowed to clip the wings of divine Science. Mind demonstrates omnipresence and omnipotence, but Mind revolves on a spiritual axis, and its power is displayed and its presence felt in eternal stillness and immovable Love. The divine potency of this spiritual mode of Mind, and the hindrance opposed to it by material motion, is proven beyond a doubt in ...
— Retrospection and Introspection • Mary Baker Eddy
... fisherman, whom Captain Bunker no longer noticed, and not daring to increase the Captain's fury by openly calling to him, beckoned the pinioned man to make an effort. But, paralyzed by fear, the wretched captive remained immovable, staring at the struggling men. With the strength of desperation Hurlstone at last forced the Captain down upon ...
— The Crusade of the Excelsior • Bret Harte
... all up with me this time; I was immovable in my bed of mud, and, instead of the clean brown barrel that I could usually trust to in an extremity, I raised a mass of mud to my shoulder, which encased my rifle like a flannel bag. I fully expected it to miss fire; no sights were visible, and I had to guess the aim ...
— The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon • Samuel White Baker


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