insusceptible

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Against this claim, Grotius attempted to shew that the sea was, from its nature, insusceptible of exclusive right; and that, if it were susceptible of it, England did not prove her title to it.

From The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands by Butler, Charles

Have you not seen some beings endowed with humanity nearly as destitute of a nervous system as the medusæ, nearly as insusceptible of any sensation from the accidents of life.

From The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends by Lady, An English

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

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

One is, to use non-humanized lymph, since the lower animals are insusceptible to syphilis.1 This is simple.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various