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
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 James Rankin
They have done it, in many instances, with a boldness they were thought insusceptible of.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
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
The first of these is, that yellow fever is strictly a self-limited disease, and therefore is insusceptible of jugulation.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Vocabulary lists containing insusceptible
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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