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innavigable, a.|ɪˈnævɪgəb(ə)l, ɪnn-|
[ad. L. innāvigābilis, f. in- (in-3) + nāvigābilis navigable. Cf. F. innavigable (16th c. in Littré).]
Not navigable; that cannot be navigated. a. Of a sea, river, etc.: That cannot be sailed upon, along, or through; impassable for a ship or boat.
1527R. Thorne in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 257 There is no lande vnhabitable, nor Sea innauigable. 1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Innauigable, that cannot be sailed vpon. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth ii. 96 Such a troubled state of the waters, as does not only make the sea innavigable, but also strikes terror into all the maritime inhabitants. 1739E. Carter tr. Algarotti on ‘Newton's Theory’ (1742) I. 86 What the innavigable Ocean was to the Ancients. 1899Brit. Weekly 15 June 158/3 The Thames, choked with hummocks, floes and fields of ice, was innavigable.
b. Of a ship or boat: That cannot be employed in navigation.
1755N. Magens Insurances II. 75 (Ordinances of Middleburg) When a Ship..is rendered innavigable..it is then allowed to abandon such Ship..to the Use of the Assurers.
Hence iˌnnavigaˈbility, iˈnnavigableness, the quality or condition of being innavigable.
1685H. More Para. Prophet. 399 It is not the Innavigableness of the blood..(for so much blood as to sail upon is a monstrous Phancy). 1848Arnould Mar. Insur. (1866) I. i. vii. 344 French Jurists confine the ‘innavigability’ spoken of in the Code, to the single case in which the ship cannot be repaired so as to continue its voyage or keep the sea. |