impercipient

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Does not the image of a lovely wife, pining at home for the affection which an impercipient husband had diverted to his bills and invoices, immediately arise?

From Time Magazine Archive

In person, Dr. Bonaday was remarkable for a completely bald head, a hooked nose, and a pair of vague, impercipient eyes, as of an owl astray and blinking in the sunlight.

From Major Vigoureux by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Here is one of my puzzlers: "Does B here mean impercipient and unperceived subject or conscious and percipient subject?"

From An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)