insusceptible
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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
His soul, indurated by crime, was as insusceptible to the soothing influence of such aspects, as the cold rocky cavern where he had harbored, was impenetrable to the noonday blaze.
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms
Investigation shows the opaque substances to be generally most susceptible, and the transparent materials, such as glass, rock-salt, tourmaline, &c. almost insusceptible, to the heating effect of the sun.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by James Weir
What has actually happened in the year which has since elapsed has shown that those hopes were not justified, those assurances insusceptible of being fulfilled.
From President Wilson's Addresses by George McLean Harper
It remains as a pure deduction from the philosophical conception of Monism, incapable of proof, insusceptible of refutation.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing insusceptible
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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