† immercurialadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Not mercurial, mobile or yielding.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [adjective] > stiff or rigid
stithc897
stiff1000
starkOE
inflexiblec1400
rigent?1440
unbowable1537
staffish1545
steya1586
unpliablea1618
rigid1618
unsupple1621
unpliant1624
immercurial1637
steeve1637
starky1657
impliablea1734
tharf1747
stiff as a poker1798
unbending1802
unbowsome1818
crisp1851
unbendable1884
poker-stiff1894
unfluxile1925
1637 J. Pocklington Altare Christianum xxv. 148 Some of Gr[antham] and others of that Immercuriall wood, may be so knotty and sturdy, that if you come with your Herculean armes to twine and twist them..they will cracke in the bending like a gunne.
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adj.1637