a. [UN-1 7 b.]
† 1. Incapable of helping oneself. Obs.
1622. S. Ward, Life of Faith in Death, 118. These fooles … neuer thinke of the euill day, and when away they see they must goe, how vnshyftable are they!
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter ii. 9. How unshiftable otherwise shall we be in that houre, how unable to answer at the day of Iudgement!
2. Incapable of being shifted; immovable.
1890. W. J. Gordon, Foundry, 36. Secured so as to be unshiftable in a sea-way.
