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Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge. "Inexorable equality of laws." Gibbon. "Death's inexorable doom." Dryden. You are more inhuman, more inexorable, O, ten times more than tigers…

In an inexorable manner; inflexibly. "Inexorably firm." Thomson.

or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy. The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter. That grave inflexibility of soul. Churchill. The purity and inflexibility of…

Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.

The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness.

To infix, as in a globe; to fix or secure firmly. [Obs.] Milton.

Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities.

A patient who receives lodging and food, as well as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary; -- distinguished from outpatient.

To take a stand and refuse to give way; to hold to something firmly or determinedly; to be persistent, urgent, or pressing; to persist in demanding; -- followed by on, upon, or that; as, he insisted on these conditions; he insisted on going at once; he insists that he must have money. Insisting on the old prerogative.…

The first word of ancient charters in England, confirming a grant made by a former king; hence, a royal grant.

The quality or condition of being unstable; want of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building.

Not stable; not standing fast or firm; unstable; prone to change or recede from a purpose; mutable; inconstant.

To link together; to unite closely or firmly, as by a chain. Two bosoms interchained with an oath. Shak.

into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.

ch is interwoven. "Knit in nice intertexture." Coleridge. Skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs. Cowper.

A person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health.

The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.

Want of health; infirmity. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; -- usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error. An inveteracy of evil habits that will prompt him to contract more. A. Tucker.…

Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse. Heal the inveterate canker of one wound. Shak.