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单词 innavigable
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innavigableadj.

/ɪˈnavɪɡəb(ə)l/
Etymology: < Latin innāvigābilis, < in- (in- prefix4) + nāvigābilis navigable adj. and n. Compare French innavigable (16th cent. in Littré).
Not navigable; that cannot be navigated.
a. Of a sea, river, etc.: That cannot be sailed upon, along, or through; impassable for a ship or boat.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > [adjective] > navigable > not
innavigablea1527
unsailable1570
unnavigable1578
unrenavigable1632
a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. D2v There is no lande vnhabitable, nor Sea innauigable.
1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Innauigable, that cannot be sailed vpon.
1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 96 Such a troubled state of the waters, as does not only make the sea innavigable, but also strikes terror into all the maritime inhabitants.
1739 E. Carter tr. F. Algarotti Sir I. Newton's Philos. Explain'd I. ii. 90 What the innavigable Ocean was to the Ancients.
1899 Brit. Weekly 15 June 158/3 The Thames, choked with hummocks, floes and fields of ice, was innavigable.
b. Of a ship or boat: That cannot be employed in navigation.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel with reference to qualities or attributes > [adjective] > not seaworthy or unstable
walt1539
crank-sided1626
crank1696
walty1702
over-floaty1705
lopsided1711
tender1723
innavigable1755
unseaworthy1820
sick1854
cranky1861
1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 75 (Ordinances of Middleburg) When a Ship..is rendered innavigable..it is then allowed to abandon such Ship..to the Use of the Assurers.

Derivatives

iˌnnavigaˈbility n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel with reference to qualities or attributes > [noun] > qualities of vessel > of being managed at sea > not
innavigability1848
1848 J. Arnould Law Marine Insurance I. i. vii. 194 French jurists confine the ‘innavigability’, spoken of in the code, to the single case, in which the ship cannot be repaired so as to continue its voyage or keep the sea.
iˈnnavigableness n. the quality or condition of being innavigable.
ΚΠ
1685 H. More Paralipomena Prophetica 399 It is not the Innavigableness of the blood..(for so much blood as to sail upon is a monstrous Phancy).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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