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immedicable, a.|ɪˈmɛdɪkəb(ə)l|
Also 6 ymed-.
[ad. F. immedicable (Cotgr.) or L. immedicābilis, f. im- (im-2) + medicābilis medicable.]
Incapable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.
1596R. L[inche] Diella i. (1877) 7 With fatall and ymedicable wound. 1660Willsford Scales Comm. 100 Glutted with excesse, [they] become immedicable by those surfeits. 1744Armstrong Preserv. Health ii. 220 More immedicable ills. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 107 A disease immedicable by the healing art.
b. transf. and fig.
1533More Answ. Poysoned Bk. Wks. 1075/1 Through his immedicable malyce he fell of himselfe. 1645Milton Colast. Wks. (1851) 359 For anothers perversnes, or immedicable disaffection. 1813Coleridge Lett. (1895) 612 There remains an immedicable But. 1880Swinburne Study Shaks. ii. 167 Immedicable scepticism of the spirit.
Hence iˈmmedicableness, incurableness; iˈmmedicably adv., incurably.
1727Bailey vol. II, Immedicableness, incurableness. 1867P. Bayne in Contemp. Rev. Nov. 351 Madness, be its visions gay or gloomy, is immedicably sad. |