"Innavigable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ethereal race; Deem not that here of choice my fleet remains; Some heavenly power averse my stay constrains: O, piteous of my fate, vouchsafe to show (For what's sequester'd from celestial view?) What power becalms the innavigable seas? What guilt provokes ...
— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer, translated by Alexander Pope
... unattainable, unobtainable; out of reach, out of the question; not to be had, not to be thought of; beyond control; desperate &c (hopeless) 859; incompatible &c 24; inaccessible, uncomeatable^, impassable, impervious, innavigable^, inextricable; self- contradictory. out of one's power, beyond one's power, beyond one's depth, beyond one's reach, beyond one's grasp; too much for; ultra crepidam [Lat.]. Phr. the grapes are sour; non possumus [Lat.]; non nostrum tantas componere ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
