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† irrecuperable, a. Obs.|ɪrɪˈkjuːpərəb(ə)l|
Also 4–6 -arable.
[a. OF. irrecuperable (1386 in Godef.), ad. late L. irrecuperābilis irreparable, f. ir- (ir-2) + recuperāre to recover: see -able.]
1. That cannot be recovered or regained.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. i. (Skeat) l. 34 Thus irrecuparable ioy is went, and anoy endlesse is entred. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 404 b/2 Thou art ryght sorouful for me whome thou haste loste whyche am Irrecuperable. 1538Leland Itin. VII. 117 The Ruine of the Fortelet..ys at thys day a Hold irrecuperable for the Fox. c1575Hacket Treas. Amadis 274 Teares be lost upon a thing irrecuperable. 1644Prynne & Walker Fiennes' Trial 86 A most certaine present losse..(perchance irrecuperable for the future too).
2. That cannot be recovered from or cured; incurable.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas (ed. Wayland) 58 a, Syth that his dole was irrecuperable. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn 215 The salue commeth to late, where the sore is irrecuperable. 1511–12Act 3 Hen. VIII, c. 5 Preamble, Irrecuperable damages may ensue if remedy therfor be not seen and had. 1590Serpent of Devis. ad fin., This makes vs consider the irrecuperable harmes of devision. 1626in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 348/2 To the irrecuperable decay of my aged and benummed carkaise.
Hence † irreˈcuperably adv., incurably.
1535in Suppress. Monast. (Camden) 106 Utterlye and irrecuperablye decayed and undone. 1683E. Hooker Pref. Pordage's Mystic Div. 21 Sin is..in public, countenanced, encouraged, taught, and..men are becom..irrevocably and irrecuperably and impudently impious. |