Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Susceptible

Susceptible , adjective

[French, from Latin suscipere, susceptum, to take up, to support, undertake, recognize, admit; pref. sus (see Sub-) + capere to take. See Capable.]

1.
Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.
It sheds on souls susceptible of light, The glorious dawn of our eternal day. — Young
2.
Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart.
Candidates are... not very susceptible of affronts. — Cowper
I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. — Lamb