insusceptible
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Her tone set aside the subject as insusceptible of sufficient or satisfactory answer.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
It was found that by continuing this process the animal might be rendered wholly insusceptible to the disease.
From Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World by John Clark Ridpath
The same advantage in a greater degree is obtained by vaccination, even in the exceptional instances in which it fails to render the person altogether insusceptible to the disease.
From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West
Healthy men and animals often carry the poison, though themselves insusceptible.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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
Vocabulary lists containing insusceptible
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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