immeability
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From im- (“not”) + Latin meabilis (“passable”), from meare (“to pass”).
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Noun[edit]
immeability (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Inability to pass through or to permit passage.
- 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […], →OCLC:
- From this phlegm proceed white cold tumours, viscidity, and consequently immeability of the juices.
- 1747, Robert Douglas, An Essay Concerning the Generation of Heat in Animals:
- Immeability of the Blood in the extream Capillaries
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References[edit]
- “immeability”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.