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- adjective Not
poisonous .
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Examples
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Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material called table salt.
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They even give 'em unpoisonous paints an 'let 'em paint each other up.
Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906
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But the rigorous conditions of the Method of Difference are not yet satisfied; for we can not be sure that these unpoisonous bodies agree with the poisonous substances in every property, except the particular one of entering into a difficultly decomposable compound with the animal tissues.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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But the rigorous conditions of the Method of Difference are not yet satisfied; for we cannot be sure that these unpoisonous bodies agree with the poisonous substances in every property, except the particular one, of entering into a difficultly decomposable compound with the animal tissues.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839
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