immedicable
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of immedicable
First recorded in 1525–35, immedicable is from the Latin word immedicābilis incurable. See im- 2, medicable
Example Sentences
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In the south, the disease, virulent and immedicable, had nearly annihilated the race of man; storm and inundation, poisonous winds and blights, filled up the measure of suffering.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Weak you will find it in one only part, Now pierc'd by Love's immedicable dart.
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
As man recedes from one hastener of destruction, he inevitably approaches another: "Gross riot treasures up a wealthy fund Of plagues, but more immedicable ills Attend the lean extreme."
From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor
But the wounds were immedicable, as events were soon to prove.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
The immedicable injury which his constitution had sustained from the assault of Brooks developed fresh complications, and renewed all of the old bodily suffering.
From Charles Sumner Centenary The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 by Archibald Henry Grimké
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