unpoisonable
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + poisonable.
Adjective
[edit]unpoisonable (comparative more unpoisonable, superlative most unpoisonable)
- (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.