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ed. The characters of man placed in lower stations of life are more usefull, as being imitable by great numbers. Atterbury.

The state or quality of being imitable; worthness of imitation.

Not maleable.

Matchless; peerless. [Obs.] Holland.

Incapble of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast. Of depth immeasurable. Milton.

The state or quality of being immeasurable. Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone. F. W. Robertson.

Not to be healed; incurable. "Wounds immedicable." Milton.

Not memorable; not worth remembering. Johnson.

Immeasurable. What an immensurable space is the firmament. Derham.

See Immersible.

Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased. Coleridge.

Not mixable. Bp. Wilkins.

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.

Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change; unchangeable; unalterable. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation. Heb. vi. 18. Immutable, immortal, infinite, Eternal King. Milton. -- Im*mu"ta*ble*ness, n. -- Im*mu"ta*bly, adv.

Not to be appeased or quieted. [Obs.] Spenser. -- Im*pa"ca*bly, adv.

Unpalatable. [R.]

Not palpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch. "Impalpable powder." Boyle.

Unpardonable. [Obs.] South.

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.