insusceptible
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It is from fifty to one hundred and fifty yards wide, always rapid, rocky, and insusceptible of navigation.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
The same advantage in a greater degree is obtained by vaccination, even in the exceptional instances in which it fails to render the person altogether insusceptible to the disease.
From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by West, Charles
The trade of a tin-typer proved too narrow for the lad’s ambition; it was insusceptible of expansion, he explained; it was not truly modern; and by a sudden conversion of front he became a railroad-scalper.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
We find it strong, pliable, insusceptible to either heat or cold and to all appearances will be more durable than anything we have ever used.
From Natural and Artificial Duck Culture by Rankin, James
Immunity.—Some persons are insusceptible to infection by certain diseases, from which they are said to enjoy a natural immunity.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
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capt, cept, ceive, List 3
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cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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