insusceptible
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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
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
These disputes are the most insusceptible of determination, because they have no foundation in reason.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
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
These grave questions are as yet insusceptible of answer.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
Vocabulary lists containing insusceptible
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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