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unˈnavigable, a.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
1. Incapable of being sailed on or over; not admitting of navigation.
1579–80North Plutarch (1595) 1 Deepe drye sands with⁓out water, full of foule ill fauoured venimous beasts, or much mudde vnnauigable. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies i. xxii. 72 The sea was made unnavigable, through the aboundance of banckes, rockes. 1616Healey Theophrastus To the Reader, In Winter, the Seas were lockt vp;..vtterly vnnauigable. 1697Dryden æneis vi. 341 There th' unnavigable Lake extends. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 595 An unnavigable Ocean, where Ship never sail'd. 1798S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. II. 440 A river,—wholly unnavigable from its rude course and stony bed. 1836W. Irving Astoria I. 181 The men returned, therefore, in despair, and declared the river unnavigable. 1898F. T. Bullen in Nat. Rev. Aug. 856 The unnavigable coast of Palawan.
b. fig. or in fig. context.
1656Cowley Pindar. Odes, Praise of P. i, Pindars un⁓navigable Song Like a swoln Flood from some steep Mountain pours along. 1688Prior Ode on Exod. iii. 14 ii, Yet cease to hope thy short-liv'd Bark shall ride Down spreading Fate's unnavigable Tide. 1693Dryden Juvenal x. 13 Some who the depths of Eloquence have found, In that unnavigable Stream were Drown'd. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 610 Nor would the unnavigable gulph utterly exclude his hopes.
c. Adverse to navigation.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 253 He puts to Sea..at an unseasonable, and unnavigable time of the yeare.
2. Of a vessel: Incapable of being navigated.
1755N. Magens Insurances II. 139 When a Ship insured is become unnavigable. |