† involubleadj.
Obsolete. rare.
1. That cannot turn or change; immutable.
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [adjective] > unchangeable
unchangeablea1340
immovablec1374
unmovablec1384
immutable1412
unvariablec1425
indeclinable1432
unmutable?a1439
incommutablec1450
irrevocable1490
impermutable1528
irrecoverable1540
inalterable?1541
unreformable1549
inchangeable1583
beyond (also past, without) recall1597
incontrollable1605
invariable1607
unalterable1611
unrecallable1611
untransmutable1611
unreversable1616
involublea1618
irreversible1629
irreducible1633
inconvertible1646
eternal1685
intransmutable1691
unconvertible1700
unvoidable1725
unmodifiable1798
irreformable1812
irrevertible1822
irredeemable1839
true1845
influxible1871
irrevisable1884
intransformable1887
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Little Bartas in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 768 Even Thee, the Cause of Causes: Sourse of All:..Infallible, involuble, insensible.
2. Incapable of being rolled up.
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the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [adjective] > folded up or rolled up > able to be > not
involuble1654
1654 T. Hobbes Of Libertie & Necessitie To Rdr. sig. A5 Vast and involuble volumes concerning Predestination..&c.
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