Im*mov"a*ble (?), a. 1.
Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of
material things; as, an immovable foundation.
Immovable, infixed, and frozen
round.
Milton.
2. Steadfast; fixed; unalterable;
unchangeable; -- used of the mind or will; as, an immovable
purpose, or a man who remains immovable.
3. Not capable of being affected or moved in
feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive.
Dryden.
4. (Law.) Not liable to be removed;
permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate.
See Immovable, n.
Blackstone.
Immovable apparatus (Med.), an
appliance, like the plaster of paris bandage, which keeps fractured
parts firmly in place. -- Immovable feasts
(Eccl.), feasts which occur on a certain day of the year
and do not depend on the date of Easter; as, Christmas, the Epiphany,
etc.
Im*mov"a*ble, n. 1.
That which can not be moved.
2. pl. (Civil Law) Lands and
things adherent thereto by nature, as trees; by the hand of man, as
buildings and their accessories; by their destination, as seeds,
plants, manure, etc.; or by the objects to which they are applied, as
servitudes. Ayliffe. Bouvier.