immutate

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adjective

unchanged

OriginLatin immūtātus →
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Meanings

adjectiveimmutate (comparative more immutate, superlative most immutate)

comparative more immutate · superlative most immutate

  1. obsoleterareunchanged

    ... Whose laws immutate are.

    1913, The Agricultural Student, page 213
    2 more examples

    ... still holds immutate the wine of "lang syne?" Ye gods, leave it unchanged, I pray you, till I quaff at least ...

    1875, Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine

    ... the immutate or unepithetised class, ...

    1891, Karl Brugmann, A Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages: A Concise Exposition of the History of Sanskrit, Old Iranian ... Old Armenian, Greek, Latin, Umbro-Samnitic, Old Irish, Gothic, Old High German, Lithuanian and Old Church Slavonic, page 36

Origin

  1. Latinimmūtātus
  2. Englishimmutate

First attested in 1788; borrowed from Latin immūtātus, from in- (“not”) + mūtātus (“changed”), perfect passive participle of mūtō (“to change”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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APA

immutate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/immutate

MLA

“immutate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/immutate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “immutate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/immutate.

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