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unˈtreatable, a.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
†1. Intractable; incapable of being treated or dealt with; unmanageable. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. viii. (1868) 61 For-as-mochel as thow shalt nat wenen..þat I bere vntretable batayle ayenis fortune. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas i. xv. 5638 For Narcisus was nat merciable Toward Echcho,..But in his port was founden ontretable. c1450Burgh Secrees 2196 Yif he be wood and vntretable, He may..thy Reem destroye. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys 68 If that deth vntretable Arrest the with his mace. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. ii. 9 The greater part avanceth itselfe against him with untreatable feercenesse. 1604–5in Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc. Ser. iv. IV. 137 Parishioners doe fynde mutch faulte with his untreatable reading in the tyme of public prayer. 1675G. R. tr. Le Grand's Man without Passion 137 Anger that wild and untreatable Passion. a1745Swift Serm. Wks. 1765 XVI. 31 [It] caused many of them..to be..supercilious and untreatable.
2. Not admitting of medical treatment.
1865Q. Rev. July 33 Untreatable by any known remedy, this malady would seem now to have nearly worn itself out.
Hence unˈtreatableness.
1693C. Mather Wonders Invisible World Def. A 2, The unaccountable Frowardness, Asperity, Untreatableness, and Inconsistency of many persons. |