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immobile, a.|ɪˈməʊbaɪl, -ɪl|
Also 4 in-mobill, 5 immobyle, 6 -il, immoble, imoble.
[a. F. immobile (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. immōbilis, f. im- (im-2) + mōbilis mobile.]
Incapable of moving or of being moved, immovable (lit. and fig.); fixed, stable. Also less strictly: That does not move; motionless, stationary. (In first quot. = immovable A. 3.)
c1340Hampole Prose Tr. 11 Thou sall noghte couatye þe hous or oþer thynge mobill or in-mobill of þi neghtbour with wrange. 1490Caxton Eneydos xix. 69 Eneas..holdyng hys syght alwayes Immobyle atte anothre syde than vpon dydo. 1545Joye Exp. Dan. v. (R.), It is not laufull to breke them [laws]: but they be ferme and immoble. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 48 Al the thyng that circuitis this..fyrst mobil, is immobil and mouis nocht. 1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 17, I do imagine..A. D. to be the axe tree, and imoble. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 141 Frequent repeted custome in sin renders the conscience..obdurate..whereby sin becomes necessary and immobile. 1859G. Meredith R. Feverel xxxviii, The fruits hung immobile on the boughs. 1864Mattie, a Stray I. 200 His immobile features did not alarm the young suitor. |