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Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.

Capable of being disproved or refuted. Boyle.

Act of disproving; disproof. [R.]

Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.

ture, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of coelenterates.

The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose.

Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of material things; as, an immovable foundatin. Immovable, infixed, and frozen round. Milton.

Quality of being immovable.

In an immovable manner.

The state or quality of being improvable; improvableness.

n, or of being advanced in good qualities. Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. Sir M. Hale. I have a fine spread of improvable lands. Addison.

Not amovable or removable. [R.] Palgrave.

To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act. [Archaic]

The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc. Dryden.

One who favors innovation.

Characterized by, or introducing, innovations. Fitzed. Hall.

One who innovates. Shak.

The quality or state of being irremovable; immovableness.

Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.

Absence of removal.