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Immovable apparatus

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Immovable \Im*mov"a*ble\, a.
   1. Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of
      material things; as, an immovable foundatin.

            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
      remain 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.
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