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
As Browning shows in La Saisiaz, a condition of certainty would destroy the school-time value of life; the highest truths are insusceptible of scientific demonstration.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
Her tone set aside the subject as insusceptible of sufficient or satisfactory answer.
From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing insusceptible
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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