insusceptible
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Life itself is insusceptible of any definition which satisfies, but we know that we live, nevertheless.
From A Little Book for Christmas by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
It has recently been claimed that pigs are insusceptible, but I have known of many instances in which the offal of anthrax cattle, when devoured by pigs, has determined fatal anthrax in the latter.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
But the expression "all Indians," besides being insusceptible of methodical classification, involves hearsay, which is not the kind of authority desired in a serious study.
It is insusceptible of rust, as gold and silver are, none of the acids affecting it, excepting the aqua regia.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
The policeman with his taboo did make moral and social questions insusceptible to treatment in party platforms.
From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter
Vocabulary lists containing insusceptible
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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