unmovableadj.n.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xv. 16 Ben þei made vnmeueable [L. inmobiles] as a stone.

?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 67 It is clept the dede see for it..is euere vnmeuable.

c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 447 Hur handis hang vp in þe ayre vnmouable.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcij^v He was set in the..stable throne, and vnmoueable chaire, of the croune of his realme.

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 11 Aristotle also..sheweth that he knew God vnder the name of the first moouer, who was perpetual and vnmoueable.

1626 W. Gouge Dignitie Chivalrie §15 Like the unmoveable mountaines.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. vi. 123 If we should suppose the Circle ABC to move about a fixed unmoveable Center at D.

1701 M. D'Assigny Hist. Earls & Earldom Flanders 55 The Boat..was stopt by an invisible Hand, and remain'd unmoveable, tho the Mariners imploy'd all their Strength to force and row it to the other side.

1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad p. xxxvii They remained unmoveable on the shore till the fleet..evanished from their sight.

1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 129 Some man whose brain rests on a still more unmovable basis.

1874 W. Humphrey in Ess. Relig. & Lit. 3rd Ser. 361 The unmoved and unmovable Prime Mover of the ever-moving universe of creatures.

1916 Studies 5 629 There is still tradition, and that is as firmly rooted in Burren soil as are the grey, unmoveable rocks.

1943 Proc. Acad. Polit. Sci. 20 96 I do not have time to tell you of the internal sea communications which make of the Japanese Empire an immense, immobile and unmovable fleet.

2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 Nov. (Sport section) 6 This is a case of the irresistible force meeting the unmovable object. Or, to put it simply, a showdown between two of Europe's best and most in-form teams.

c1390 Form of Confession (Vernon) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 343 (MED) I coueyte vn-mouable þing of his wrongfoly..wȝuche is necessarie to him.

1400 in W. Fraser Mem. Maxwells of Pollok (1863) I. 141 Al owr gud mofabyl and vnmofabyl.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 49 The endewing of preestis bi rentis and bi vnmoueable possessiouns.

1467–8 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. June 1467 §8. m. 14 The londes and tenementes, goodes and catalles meovable and unmeovable.

c1480 (a1400) St. Lucy 90 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 389 Þane sawyt þai..þare gudis w[n]mowable sone.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judith viii. 7 Hyr husbande also had lefte her..greate vnmoueable possessions and many catell.

1565 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 235 Executrix & mynyster of all my goods mawable and vnmeweable.

a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) i. viii. 155 In..Italy the father dying intestate, the brothers diuide his mouable and vnmouable goods.

1650 J. Poole Country Astrol. 97 The Lord of the eleventh, in the first signifieth good fortune... In the 4. good fortune in unmoveable goods.

1783 Whitehall Evening-post 6–8 Mar. He would recommend to the Proprietors, Planters, Agents, &c., to make out full accounts..of all effects, moveable or unmoveable.

1829 H. H. Milman Hist. Jews III. xxiv. 309 A new edict..confiscated all their unmoveable goods, and commanded them instantly to sell their moveables and to depart from the kingdom.

1875 Belfast News-let. 23 Nov. The Bourse Tax he supported, because movable capital should be just as much taxed as unmovable property.

1921 Mich. Law Rev. 19 557 It is a recognized principle of law that the disposition of unmovable property is exclusively subject to the government within whose jurisdiction the property is situated.

1966 B. Guilick They came to Valley 273 Tempted by..the opportunity to transfer a good-sized chunk of his unmoveable assets from St. Louis to Idaho, Kimball regarded the proposal favorably at first.

1994 Law & Soc. Rev. 28 535 Daughters tend not to inherit unmovable goods, though they receive other goods, like their mother's jewelry.

1536 in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 146 We..submytt owr selfes and our monasterye, with all the moveables and unmovables therof, unto your majesties accustomede grace.

1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. Bviii Mouables, vnmouables, lande or farme, Thou hast not one grotes woorth, of good or goodnes.

1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum iii. vi. 105 Touching mariage and the right in moueables and vnmoueables which commeth thereby.

a1652 R. Brome City Wit iii. i. sig. C6^v, in Five New Playes (1653) All the rest of my Lands, Jewels, Plate, Money, Debts, Moveables and Unmoveables, to my dear and loving Brother, Sir Gregory Flamsted, whom I make my full Executor.

1770 J. MacLaurin Information for Mungo Campbell 121 Unmoveables, such as land or houses.

1803 Ann. Rev. Jan. 314/1 How far the possession of unmoveables gained in war may be extended.

1850 Brit. Q. Rev. Nov. 529 In this condition of things men have no notion of property in unmoveables, nor of right of possession longer than the act of possession lasts.

1986 R. Thompson Sex in Middlesex iii. 63 He would inherit all unmoveables entailed on his children.

1993 A. L. Erickson Women & Prop. in Early Mod. Eng. (2002) ix. 162 The substantial value of the residual moveables—if not the unmoveables—can be verified by reference to the inventory, where it survives.

1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights xx. 201 We groped and peered under unmovables and pulled about everything that could be moved.

1984 E. P. Link Roses & Thorns 21 Deng Xiaoping made it clear in a major speech that writers must not question the ‘four unmoveables’: socialism, Party leadership, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and Marxism-Leninism-Mao-Zedong-Thought.

2010 D. Rebellato Chekhov in Hell (2011) 40 You just punch in the parameters you want. Total square metres, number of inhabitants, any unmoveables (structural shit, mainly), and it gives you the optimal ground plan.