unpoisonable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ poisonable

Adjective[edit]

unpoisonable (comparative more unpoisonable, superlative most unpoisonable)

  1. (rare) Not capable of being poisoned.
    • 2003, Terri Witek, Fools and Crows, page 61:
      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.
    • 2010, Richard Swiderski, Poison Eaters: Snakes, Opium, Arsenic, and the Lethal Show, page 18:
      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.