innoxious

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The species generally are considered edible, or innoxious.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

The true criterion is, not whether the Government, or an individual may supply the article, but whether the article itself be noxious or innoxious.

From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael

It enables you to discover that riches and titles do not confer merit; you think comparatively little of them; and, as far as relates to you, at any rate, their insolence is innoxious.

From Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by Cobbett, William

If, on the contrary, we observe the natural defects of aristocracy, we shall find that their influence is comparatively innoxious in the direction of the external affairs of a state.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de

All things in this his fulminating bull are not of so innoxious a tendency.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund