immedicable

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UK/ɪˈmɛdɪkəb(ə)l/

adjective

Incurable; not able to be assisted by medicine.

OriginMiddle French immedicable ← Latin immedicābilis →
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Meanings

adjectiveimmedicable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableIncurable; not able to be assisted by medicine.

    Here love receiv'd immedicable harmes, / And was dispoiled of his daring armes.

    1650, John Donne, Elegie XVII
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    wounds immedicable / Ranckle, and feſter, and gangrene, / To black mortification.

    1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 42

    The beast Has a loud trumpet like the Scarabee, His crookèd tail is barbed with many stings, Each able to make a thousand wounds, and each Immedicable; from his convex eyes He sees fair things in many hideous shapes, And trumpets all his falsehood to the world.

    1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts

Origin

  1. Latinimmedicābilis
  2. Middle Frenchimmedicable
  3. Englishimmedicable

Borrowed from Middle French immedicable and its source, Latin immedicābilis.

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