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

Incapable of being read; not legible; as, illegible handwriting; an illegible inscription. -- Il*leg"i*ble*ness, n. -- Il*leg"i*bly, adv.

Not leviable; incapable of being imposed, or collected. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space. The wild, the irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force of beauty. De Quincey.

de to the state of a brute; to make brutal. And mixed with bestial slime, This essence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton.

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

Incapability of being mixed, or mingled.

Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable. Prof. Shedd.

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

To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate. Those tender babes Whom envy hath immured within your walls. Shak. This huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round. Milton.

The quality of being incapable of division into parts; indivisibility. Holland.

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.

Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation. "Impassible to the critic." Sir W. Scott. Secure of death, I should contemn thy dart Though naked, and impassible depart. Dryden.

Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield. Highest woods impenetrable To star or sunlight. Milton.

Incapable of being mad perfect. [R.]

Incapable of being perforated, or bored through.

Incapable of being passed through. [R.]

Incapable of being disturbed or disconcerted; as, imperturbable gravity.

Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince. I see thou art implacable. Milton. An object of implacable enmity. Macaulay.

Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.