insusceptible
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One-thousandth of a drop of virulent anthrax blood invariably killed the guinea-pig, while it left the rabbit unharmed.2 Klein has never found a rabbit insusceptible.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
These grave questions are as yet insusceptible of answer.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
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 Rankin, James
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 Simms, William Gilmore
Still it is idle to deny that the doctrines are insusceptible of proof.
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
Vocabulary lists containing insusceptible
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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