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Incapable of change; unalterable; immutable. The nature of things is inflexible. I. Watts.

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

The quality of being intransmutable.

The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability. Stillingfleet.…

perfect mind. Shak. O most entire perfect sacrifice! Keble. God made thee perfect, not immutable. Milton.

Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle. "The slippery state of kings." Denham.

ymous with "mode," but of a meaning more extensive, and is not exclusively limited to the mutable and contingent. Sir W. Hamilton. Declare the past and present state of things. Dryden. Keep the state of the question in your eye. Boyle.

ds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable.

The quality of being transmutable.

Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable. Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. Shak. His heart, I know, how variable and vain! Milton. Variable exhaust (Steam Eng.), a blast pipe with an adjustable opening. --…