Irreversible \Ir`re*vers"i*ble\, a.
1. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back;
incapable of being made to run backward; as, an
irreversible engine.
2. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or
annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree.
This rejection of the Jews, as it is not universal,
so neither is it final and irreversible. --Jortin.
Syn: Irrevocable; irrepealable; unchangeable.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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