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.

Immovable
(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.

Immovableness
(Im*mov"a*ble*ness), n. Quality of being immovable.

Immovably
(Im*mov"a*bly), adv. In an immovable manner.

Immund
(Im*mund") a. [L. immundus; pref. im- not + mundus clean.] Unclean. [R.] Burton.

Immundicity
(Im`mun*dic"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. immondicité, L. immunditia, immundities.] Uncleanness; filthiness. [R.] W. Montagu.

Immune
(Im*mune") a. [L. immunis. See Immunity.] Exempt; protected by inoculation.Im*mu"nize v. t.

Immunity
(Im*mu"ni*ty) n.; pl. Immunities [L. immunitas, fr. immunis free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunité. See Common, and cf. Mean, a.]

1. Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.

2. Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.

Immure
(Im*mure") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immured ; p. pr. & vb. n. Immuring.] [Pref. im- in + mure: cf. F. emmurer.]

1. To wall around; to surround with walls. [Obs.] Sandys.

2. To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.

Those tender babes
Whom envy hath immured within your walls.
Shak.

This huge convex of fire,
Outrageous to devour, immures us round.
Milton.

Immure
(Im*mure"), n. A wall; an inclosure. [Obs.] Shak.

Immurement
(Im*mure"ment) n. The act of immuring, or the state of being immured; imprisonment.

Immusical
(Im*mu"sic*al) a. Inharmonious; unmusical; discordant. Bacon.

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.


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