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unsuˈsceptible, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
†1. Unable to receive and retain. Obs.—1
1692Dryden Cleomenes iv. 43 Some Men are made of such a leaky Mould, That their fill'd Vessels can no fortune hold:..Of that unsusceptible Make am I.
2. Not susceptible of some operation, influence, etc.; = insusceptible a. a.
(a)1731Swift Strephon & Chloe 86 While she a Goddess dy'd in Grain Was unsusceptible of Stain. 1799Kirwan Geol. Ess. 5 What then should render these facts and the circumstances attending them unsusceptible of testimony? 1816Bentham Chrestom. 99 Although not perhaps completely susceptible, it is however not altogether unsusceptible, of a remedy. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. iv. 69 Statements..entirely unsusceptible of proof. 1890Retrospect Med. CII. 237 Cases where the sugar..is unsusceptible of entire removal from the system by dietetic treatment alone.
(b)1751Johnson Rambler No. 153 ⁋16 An old friend, who professed himself unsusceptible of any impressions from prosperity or misfortune. 1784Cook's 3rd Voy. iv. ii. II. 310 They are certainly not wholly unsusceptible of the tender passions. 1814Southey Let. to J. King 27 Feb., My skin..may very possibly be unsusceptible of this particular irritation. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ix. II. 519 His serene intellect, singularly unsusceptible of enthusiasm, and singularly averse to extremes.
b. Const. to. = insusceptible a. b.
1872Sanford Estimates Eng. Kings 400 They rendered him comparatively unsusceptible to the feelings of resentment and implacability.
3. Not readily liable to impressions; = insusceptible a. c.
1779Mirror No. 14, Men unfeeling and unsusceptible, commonly beat the beaten track with activity and resolution. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. VI. 92 She was unsusceptible; she had no experience in love. 1893F. F. Moore I Forbid Banns xxvii, Surely the ivory—that most unsusceptible of materials—was warm from her hand. |