medicinable

comparative more medicinable · superlative most medicinable

1. obsoleteMedicinal; having healing properties.First known use 14th c.

   […] this Water is every way as Medicinable as the other; serving well in all Decoctions and Syrups, though it be not altogether so pleasing to the smell.

   1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 42

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   hee by his lawes, inhibiteth[…]the perswasion, that any evill may come unto man from the Gods, except for his greater good, and for a medicinable [translating medecinal] effect, whensoever he falleth into it.

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

   I pray you in your Letters, / When you ſhall theſe vnluckie deeds relate, / Speake of me, as I am. […] / Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeit un-vsed to the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme.

   1603, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act V, scene ii, page 338