medicinable

American  

[muh-dis-uh-nuh-buhl] / məˈdɪs ə nə bəl /

adjective

Archaic.

1. medicinal.

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Etymology

Origin of medicinable

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French. See medicine, -able

Example Sentences

The physicians make the galls and stones in the heads of Carps to be very medicinable.

From The Compleat Angler by Walton, Izaak

In this last case of all, it is better than medicinable.

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica

For they may take the comfort of a double medicine, and also of that thing that is of the kind that we shall finally speak of, that I call "better than medicinable."

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica

Some griefs are medicinable; and this is one.—Shakespeare.

From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Gentle fingers had applied to hands and feet, to all those old passage-ways of the senses, through which the world had come and gone for him, now so dim and obstructed, a medicinable oil.

From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Pater, Walter