单词 | innavigable |
释义 | innavigableadj. 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. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [adjective] > navigable > not innavigablea1527 unsailable1570 unnavigable1578 unrenavigable1632 a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. D2v There is no lande vnhabitable, nor Sea innauigable. 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Innauigable, that cannot be sailed vpon. 1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 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. 1739 E. Carter tr. F. Algarotti Sir I. Newton's Philos. Explain'd I. ii. 90 What the innavigable Ocean was to the Ancients. 1899 Brit. 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. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel with reference to qualities or attributes > [adjective] > not seaworthy or unstable walt1539 crank-sided1626 crank1696 walty1702 over-floaty1705 lopsided1711 tender1723 innavigable1755 unseaworthy1820 sick1854 cranky1861 1755 N. Magens Ess. 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. Derivatives iˌnnavigaˈbility n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel with reference to qualities or attributes > [noun] > qualities of vessel > of being managed at sea > not innavigability1848 1848 J. Arnould Law Marine Insurance I. i. vii. 194 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. iˈnnavigableness n. the quality or condition of being innavigable. ΚΠ 1685 H. More Paralipomena Prophetica 399 It is not the Innavigableness of the blood..(for so much blood as to sail upon is a monstrous Phancy). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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