Dictionary entry

Immovable

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Im‐mov″a‐ble (?), a. 1. Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; — used of material things; as, an immovable foundation.

Immovable, infixed, and frozen round. Milton.

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. Dryden.

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

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.