impercipient
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of impercipient
First recorded in 1805–15; im- 2 + percipient
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Does not the image of a lovely wife, pining at home for the affection which an impercipient husband had diverted to his bills and invoices, immediately arise?
From Time Magazine Archive
Here is one of my puzzlers: "Does B here mean impercipient and unperceived subject or conscious and percipient subject?"
From An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
In person, Dr. Bonaday was remarkable for a completely bald head, a hooked nose, and a pair of vague, impercipient eyes, as of an owl astray and blinking in the sunlight.
From Major Vigoureux by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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