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irremeable, a.|ɪˈrɛmiːəb(ə)l, ɪˈriːmiːəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. irremeābil-is, f. ir- (ir-2) + remeāre to go back, return, f. re- back + meāre to go, pass: see -able. In OF. irremeable (Godef.). Cf. permeable.]
Admitting of no return; from, by, or through which there is no return. Now only poet.
1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 145 The countrie of the dead is irremeable. 1611Coryat Crudities 464, I was for the time in a kinde of irremeable labyrinth. 1697Dryden æneid vi. 575 The chief without delay Pass'd on, and took th' irremeable way. 1715–20Pope Iliad xix. 312 My three brave brothers, in one mournful day, All trod the dark irremeable way. 1767Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 3 Oct., I perhaps shall not be easily persuaded..to venture myself on the irremeable road. 1768J. Hawkesworth tr. Télémaque vii. (1784) 73 The irremeable waters of Styx..preclude for ever the return of hope. 1864Swinburne Atalanta 600 We shot after and sped Clear through the irremeable Symplegades. 1974Encounter Feb. 54/1 The subject of correctness in language is now tending to be lost in an irremeable labyrinth.
Hence iˈrremeably adv., without possibility of return.
1805T. Harral Scenes of Life II. 94 The time of remedy, as well as of prevention, was now irremeably past. |