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Incapable of slipping, or of error. [R.] Morally immutable and illapsable. Glanvill.

See Immersible.

Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf. Milton. -- Im*pass"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*pass"a*bly, adv.

Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.

Quality of being imposable.

Not advisable. -- In`ad*vis"a*ble*ness, n.

Incapable of being appeased or satisfied; unappeasable.

Unceasing; continual. [Obs.] Shelton. -- In*ces"sa*bly, adv. [Obs.]

Not condensable; incapable of being made more dense or compact, or reduced to liquid form.

Incommunicative; unsocial; reserved. [Obs.]

Capable of being increased. Sherwood. -- In*creas"a*ble*ness, n. An indefinite increasableness of some of our ideas. Bp. Law.

Not decomposable; incapable or difficult of decomposition; not resolvable into its constituents or elements.

Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.

Incapable of being deposed. [R.] Princes indeposable by the pope. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.

The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.

Capable of being indorsed; transferable; convertible.

Not excusable; not admitting excuse or justification; as, inexcusable folly. Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. Rom. ii. 1.

The quality of being inexcusable; enormity forgiveness. South.

Incapable of being supposed; not supposable; inconceivable.