unrecurable

comparative more unrecurable · superlative most unrecurable

1. Not recurable.

   An vnrecurable dyshonoure were yt vnto yow, from hens fourth to be led blynde felde of these bushardes in the darke.

   1546, Iohan Bale, The Actes of Englysh Votaryes Comprehendynge Their Vnchast Practyses and Examples by All Ages, from the Worldes Begynnynge to Thys Present Yeare, Collected out of Their Owne Legendes and Chronycles, page 77

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   Now is he gone fourth, into the desart place, / With the holy Ghost, hys offyce to begynne. / Where Sathan the deuyll, with hys assaultes apace, / With colours of craft, and manye a subtyle gynne, / Wyll vndermynde hym, yet nothynge shall he wynne, / But shame and rebuke, in the conclusyon fynall, / Thys tokenneth our rayse, and hys vnrecurable fall.

   [1547?], Iohan Bale, A Brefe Comedy or Enterlude Concernynge the Temptacyon of Our Lorde and Sauer Iesus Christ, by Sathan in the Desart, [Wesel]: [Dirik van der Straten]

   Is any sorow remēbred by wryting / Vnto my sorouful sighes comparable? / Or was there euer creature lyuyng / That felt of dole a thinge more lamentable? / For confortlesse and vnrecurable / Are thilke heaped sorowes full of rage, / Which haue with wo oppressed my corrage.

   [1554?], Ihon Bochas, translated by Iohn Lidgate, The Tragedies, Gathered by Ihon Bochas, of All Such Princes as Fell from Theyr Estates Throughe the Mutability of Fortune Since the Creacion of Adam, Vntil His Time Wherin May Be Seen What Vices Bring Menne to Destruccion, Wyth Notable Warninges Howe the Like May Be Auoyded, London: […] Iohn Wayland, page xxxvi

   […]: nowe if this remedie helpe not surely thou art vnrecurable, if also thy newe breath happen to be as stinking as thy olde, thou wilt neuer haue a sweete breath in this worlde nor then neither.

   1597, [Richard Lichfield], The Trimming of Thomas Nashe Gentleman, London: […] [E. Allde] for Philip Scarlet

   […]some diseases that are desperate: among which sort since mine is vnrecurable, I greeue to discouer it, knowing this, that all the Eloborus of Anticira, al the drugs, of India, all the gold in Ganges, cannot purge one dram of my melancholy, pacifie one fit of my feuor, nor buy me one ownce of content?

   1592, T[homas] L[odge], Euphues Shadow, the Battaile of the Sences Wherein Youthfull Folly Is Set Downe in His Right Figure, and Vaine Fancies Are Prooued To Produce Many Offences. Hereunto Is Annexed the Deafe Mans Dialogue, Contayning Philamis Athanatos: Fit for All Sorte, London: […] Abell Ieffes, for Iohn Busbie

   But howsoeuer, euer this is true, / You both repented what you vndertooke, / Thorough your eyes into your bossomes flew / VVounds vnrecurable: oft in your looke / VVhen paynted smiles lay publique in our view, / VVe might behold how much your ioyes forsooke, / Your vndisguised harts; for they sayd still, / The waking heauens will plague the sleeping ill.

   1597, Petau Maulette Geneuuefue, translated by Ieruis Markham, Deuoreux Vertues Teares for the Losse of the Most Christian King Henry, Third of That Name, King of Fraunce; And the Vntimely Death, of the Most Noble & Heroicall Gentleman, Vvalter Deuoreux, Who Was Slaine Before Roan in Fraunce., London: […] I. Roberts, for Thomas Millington, page 22