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unpoisonable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + poisonable.

Meanings

1. (rare) Not capable of being poisoned.
   • Today was unpoisonable: at this we feel something rise in us like well-made bread, like the crows who bear off our saints, like anyone who leaves town with our names in his mouth like new wine, like air, like blessings. 2003, Terri Witek, Fools and Crows, page 61:
   • The earliest poisonous poison protection compounds, far from clinically recounted, do offer a record of the idea of the poisoned unpoisonable body developed by making and taking these formulas. 2010, Richard Swiderski, Poison Eaters: Snakes, Opium, Arsenic, and the Lethal Show, page 18:

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