immortality 
tion or quality of being immortal ; exemption 
from death or annihilation; unending exis- 
tence. 
Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought 
lile and immortality to light through the gospel. 
2 Tim. 1. 10. 
After many a summer dies the swan. 
Me only cruel immortality 
Consumes. Tennyson, Tithonus. 
We have strongly within us the sense of an undying 
principle, and we transfer that true sense to this life and 
to the body, instead of Interpreting it justly as the prom- 
ise of spiritual immortality. 
Hawthorne, Septimlus Felton, p. 14. 
2. Exemption from oblivion; perpetuity: as, 
the immortality of fame. 
I held It ever. 
Virtue and cunning were endowments greater 
Than nobleness and riches : . . . 
Immortality attends the former. 
Making a man a god. Shak., Pericles, ill. 2. 
Thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof 
That they were born tor immortality. 
Wordsworth, Eccles. Sonnets, iii. 43. 
Conditional Immortality, in theol. See conditional. 
immortalization (i-m6r*tal-i-za'shon), . [< 
immortalize + -ation.] The act of immortaliz- 
ing, or the state of being immortalized. Also 
spelled immortalisation. 
immortalize (i-mor'tal-iz), .; pret. and pp. im- 
mortalized, ppr. immortalizing. [= P. immorta- 
liser = Sp. GunortcMtar = Pg. immortdlizar = It. 
tmmortauttare; as immortal + -ize.] I. trans. 
1. To render immortal ; endow with immortal- 
ity : as, the demigods immortalized by Jupiter. 
2. To exempt from oblivion ; bestow unend- 
ing fame upon ; perpetuate. 
Drive them from Orleans, and be immortalis'd. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., i. 2. 
Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng, 
I look for streams immortalized in song, 
That lost in silence and oblivion lie. 
Adduton, Letter from Italy. 
Blest be the Art that can immortalize, 
The Art that baffles Time's tyrannic claim 
To quench it Cowper, My Mother's Picture. 
II. intrans. To become immortal. [Rare.] 
Fix the years precise 
When British bards began to immortalise. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. i. 54. 
Also spelled immortalise. 
immortally (i-m6r'tal-i), adv. 1. In an im- 
mortal manner; eternally; with exemption from 
death or from oblivion. 
There is your crown : 
And He that wears the crown immortally 
Long guard it yours I Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4. 
Therefore she is immortally my bride ; 
Chance cannot change that love, nor time impair. 
Browning, Any Wife to any Husband. 
2f. Exceedingly: as, "immortally glad," Bee. 
R. Burton. 
immortelle (im-6r-tel'), . [F., fern, of immor- 
tel, undying: see immortal.] Any one of the 
flowers commonly called everlasting, or a wreath 
made of such flowers. From their papery texture, 
these flowers retain their natural color and appearance 
after drying, and are therefore much used for wreaths for 
graves, or dyed of other colors for ornamental purposes. 
See everlasting, n., 3. 
Alas for love, alas for fleeting breath 
Immortelles bloom with Beauty's bridal roses. 
Locker, A Human Skull. 
immortificationt (i-mdr'ti-fl-ka'shon), n. [= 
F. immortification = 8p. inmortificacion = Pg. 
immortificafSo = It. immortificazione ; as j- 3 + 
mortification.] Want of mortification or sub- 
jection of the passions. 
Arguments of an ill condition, of immortification of 
vicious habits. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 328. 
immotile (i-mo'til), .. [< in-3 + motile.'] Not 
motile ; stationary ; not moving. 
Propagation by means of three immotile organs, gener- 
ally placed upon distinct plants. 
U. C. Wood, Smithsonian Cont. to KnowL, XIX. 213. 
immoundt, v. t. [< *-l + mound] To inclose 
within mounds or high banks ; dam up. 
The siluer fronted Star . . . 
Pours with less pow'r her plentious influence 
Vpon these straight and narrow streamed Fennes 
And In. land Seas, which many a Mount immaunds, 
Then on an Ocean vast and void of bounds. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. 
immovability (i-mo-va-biri-ti), n. [< immova- 
ble: see -bility.] The condition or quality of 
being immovable ; steadfastness. 
immovable (i-mo'va-bl), a. and n. [= OF. im- 
movable, immouvabie, F. immouvable = Sp. iit- 
movible; as in- 3 + movable. Cf. immobile.'] I. 
a. 1. Incapable of being moved or displaced ; 
too heavy or firm to be moved; firmly fixed; 
fast. 
3000 
Population, we see, produces a sward of grass round an- 
cient cities in the most desert parts of Africa, which keeps 
the sand immoveable till the place is no longer inhabited. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 11. 
Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round. 
Milton, P. L., ii. 602. 
2. Not to be moved from a purpose; steadfast; 
fixed ; that cannot be induced to change or al- 
ter: as, a man who remains immovable. 
Mr. Jorkins has his opinion on these points. ... Mr. 
Jorkins is immovable. Dickens, David Copperfleld, xxiii. 
3. Incapable of being altered or shaken; un- 
alterable; unchangeable: as, an immovable pur- 
pose or resolution. 4. That cannot be affected; 
not impressible ; impassive ; unfeeling. 
How much happier is he who . . . remains immovable 
and smiles at the madness of the dance about him? 
Dryden, Don Sebastian. 
5. In law, not liable to be removed; perma- 
nent in place ; real, as distinguished from per- 
sonal. 
There are things immovable by their nature, others by 
their destination, and others by the objects to which they 
are applied. Boumer. 
Immovable feast. See/es(i.=Syn. Firm, stable, un- 
shaken, rooted, resolute. 
II. n. That which cannot be moved ; specifi- 
cally, in law, land, or any appurtenance fixed 
to or running with the land. Immovables are 
things that are stationary by nature, as land and trees, or 
are so made by the hand of man, as buildings and their ac- 
cessories, or by the objects to which they apply, as servi- 
tudes. 
Also immoveable. 
immovableness (i-mo'va-bl-nes), n. The qual- 
ity of being immovable. 
immovably (i-mo'va-bli), adv. In an immova- 
ble manner; so as not to be moved or altered; 
unalterably ; unchangeably. 
immundt (i-mund'), a. [= F. immonde = Sp. 
inmundo = Pg. immundo = It. immondo, < L. im- 
mundus, inmundus, unclean, < in- priv. + mun- 
dus, clean: see inundation.] Unclean. 
Immund and sordid manner of life. 
Burton, Anat, of Mel., p. 161. 
immundicityt (im-nn-dis'i-ti), . [= F. im- 
mondicite, irreg. < ML. immundicitia, for L. im- 
munditia, inmunditia, uncleanness, < imnmndus, 
unclean: see immund.] Uncleanness. 
Whosoever will enter into a course of purging his na- 
ture of that humour . . . shall recover the right savour 
and gust of purity by the same degree he is cleansed from 
the other immuiidicity. 
W. Montague, Devout* Essays, I. xii. 3. 
immune (i-mun'), a. [= OF. immun, immune 
= Sp. inmune = Pg. It. immune, < L. immunis, 
inmunis, exempt from public service or charges, 
free, exempt, < in- priv. + munis, serving, mu- 
nus, service, duty, charge; cf. common, com- 
mune 1 .] Exempt; specifically, protected by 
inoculation: as, an immune animal. [Bare.] 
But (to use the new medical barbarism) we are never 
immune altogether from the contagion. 
Fortnightly Jtev., N. S., XLIII. 226. 
immunity (i-mu'ni-ti), . ; pi. immunities (-tiz). 
[= F. immunite = Pr. imnmnitat = Sp. ittmuni- 
dad = Pg. immunidade = It. immunita, < L. im- 
munita(t-)s,inmunita(t-')s, exemption from pub- 
lic service or charges, < immunis, exempt from 
public service or charges: see immune.] 1. 
Exemption from obligation or responsibility in 
any respect, conferred by law or a sovereign 
act; freedom from legal liability; an exemption 
conferred, as from public service or charges, 
or from penalty for any particular act or course 
of conduct ; hence, special privilege ; liberty to 
do or refrain from doing any particular thing. 
The old Hans had extraordinary Immunities given them 
by our Henry III. HoweU, Letters, I. vi. 3. 
When they could hope in nothing but their innocence, 
immunity was offered them again if they would confess. 
D. Webster. 
Claims restitution of the dowry paid, 
Immunity from paying any more. 
Browning, Ring and Book, I. 191. 
2. Exemption from any natural or usual lia- 
bility. 
But man is frail, and can but ill sustain 
A long immunity from grief and pain. 
Cowper, Expostulation, 1. 82. 
Do men desire the more substantial and permanent gran- 
deur of genius? Neither has this an immunity. He who 
by force of will or of thought is great, and overlooks thou- 
sands, has the charges of that eminence. 
Emerson, Compensation. 
3. In eccles. usage, the exemption of certain sa- 
cred places and ecclesiastical personages from 
secular burdens and functions, and from acts 
regarded as repugnant to their sanctity. This 
immunity is of three kinds : (1) local, giving to the sacred 
immutation 
place the character of a refuge or asylum to any one nee- 
ing to Its protection (see sanctuary) ; (2) real, exempt- 
clergy thems - 
citizens and from lay jurisdiction. These ecclesiastical im- 
munities, once very numerous, are now very much re- 
stricted. 
4. See the quotation. 
I have hitherto described the association of freemen 
whose rank was equal, or but slightly different, and who 
lived together upon terms of equality. Outside this asso- 
ciation there were two other forms of society. There was 
the Household, considered as a corporate body, without any 
relation to other Households. There were the relations of 
the Household to its inferiors arising from their common 
subordination. The Independent position of the House- 
hold may be called Immunity, as opposed to the Commu- 
nity. W. E. Hearn, Aryan Household, p. 232. 
Congregation Of Immunities. See congregation, 6 (a), 
immure (i-mur'), v. t.; pret. and pp. immured, 
ppr. immuring. [Formerly also enmure; < OF. 
emmurrer = Pr. enmurar, emurar, (. ML. immu- 
rare, shut within walls, < L. in, in, + mnrus, a 
wall: see mural, mure.] If. To surround with 
walls; wall; fortify; protect. 
Alexander dying, Lysimachus . . . immund it [the city] 
with a wall. . Sandys, Travailes, p. 18. 
Such things which were great instruments of public ends, 
and things of highest use, were also, in all societies of men, 
of greatest honour, and immured by reverence and the se- 
curity of laws. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), I. 155. 
2. To inclose within walls ; hence, to shut up 
or confine, in general. 
I mean, setting thee at liberty, enfreedoming thy person ; 
thou wert immured, restrained, captivated, bound. 
Shak,, L. L. L., iii. 1. 
Immured 
In the hot prison of the present. 
M. Arnold, Growing Old. 
immuret (i-mur'), n. [< immure, v.] An inclo- 
sure ; a wall. 
Troy, within whose strong immures 
The ravish'd Helen, Menelaus' queen, 
With wanton Paris sleeps. Shak., T. and C., Prol. 
immurement (i-mur'ment), . [< immure + 
-went.] The act of immuring, or the state of 
being immured ; imprisonment. 
Our peregrinations made it very clear that Carcassonne 
was impregnable ; it is impossible to imagine, without hav- 
ing seen them, such refinements of immurement, such in- 
genuities of resistance. H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 151. 
=Syn. Incarceration, etc. See captivity. 
immusicalt, a. [< i- 3 + musical. Cf. LL. im- 
miisicus, inmusicus, unmusical.] Unmusical. 
All sounds are either musical sounds, which we call tones, 
. . . which sounds are ever equal : or immusical sounds, 
which are ever unequal. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 101. 
immutability (i-mu-ta-bil'i-ti), n. [= F. im- 
mutabilite = Sp. inmuiabilidad = Pg. immutabi- 
lidade = lt. immutabilita, < L. inimutabilita(t-)s, 
inmutabilita(t-)s, unchangeableness, < immuta- 
bilis,inmutabilis, unchangeable: see immutable.] 
The quality of being immutable ; immutable- 
ness; unchangeableness; in variableness. 
God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of 
promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by 
an oath. Heb. vi. 17. 
The Egyptians are the Healthiest People of the World, 
by reason of the immutability of their Air. 
Oreenhill, Art of Embalming (ed. 1705), p. 147. 
immutable (i-mu'ta-bl), a. [< ME. immutable, 
< OF. immutable, also immuable, F. inimitable = 
Sp. inmutable = Pg. inimntarel = It. immiitabile, 
< L. immutabilis, inmutabilis, unchangeable, < 
in- priv. + mutabilis, changeable: see mil ta- 
ble.] 1. Not mutable; not capable or suscep- 
tible of change ; not subject to mutation ; un- 
changeable ; invariable ; unalterable. 
That by two immutable things, in which it was impos- 
sible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation. 
Heb. vi. 18. 
"Such," continues the Arabian [chronicler], "was the 
immutable decree of destiny." 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 15. 
2. In zool., not subject to variation in different 
individuals of a species; permanent: as, immu- 
table characters or marks Immutable accent. 
See accent, 7. =Syn. Constant, stable, permanent, unde- 
viating, fixed. 
immutableness (i-mu'ta-bl-nes), n. Unchange- 
ableness; immutability. 
immutably (i-mu'ta-bli), adv. In an immuta- 
ble manner; unchangeably; invariably. 
immutatet (i inu'tat), a. [< L. imnmtatus, in- 
mutatus, unchanged, < in- priv. + mutattts, 
changed: see mutate.'] Unchanged. 
immutationt (im-u-ta'sbon), n. [= OF. tiii(- 
tation = Sp. inmu'tacion = It. immutaftione, < L. 
immtitatio(n-), inmntatio(n-), < immutare, in- 
m utare, change: see imutitte.] Change; trans- 
formation ; substitution of one thing for an- 
other. 
