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insusceptible, a.|ɪnsəˈsɛptɪb(ə)l|
[in-3; perh. after F. insusceptible (16th c. in Littré).]
Not susceptible; not able or apt to receive impressions; not liable to be affected or influenced by something or in some way. a. Const. of (an action, process, or condition).
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1043 It is not altogether insusceptible of mutation. 1742Fielding J. Andrews i. v, You shall never persuade me that your heart is so insusceptible of affection. 1821Shelley Hellas Pref., The subject..is insusceptible of being treated otherwise than lyrically. 1899R. H. Charles Eschatol. x. 378 Souls in Sheol were conceived as insusceptible of ethical progress.
b. Const. to (an influence or agency).
1808Med. Jrnl. XIX. 197 In others, vaccine inoculation did not take effect; consequently they were not rendered insusceptible to the infection of the small-pox. 1877Brockett Cross & Cr. 264 Insusceptible to all those influences..which so powerfully affect most peoples. 189819th Cent. XLIV. 1000 The one, heavy, slow, insusceptible to violent passion.
c. ellipt. without construction.
1830Fraser's Mag. I. 577 Coarse animal passion and animal craft, at once energetic and insusceptible. 1880MacCormac Antisept. Surg. 83 This number of insusceptible or, as I may call them, not poisonable people, must be left out of account. 1898P. Manson Trop. Dis. vii. 142 To remove the entire population of the neighbourhood with the exception of the insusceptible. |