medicinable
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of medicinable
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French. See medicine, -able
Example Sentences
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Yet hath he good cause of comfort in them, if he consider that he may make them medicinable for himself if he will.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens
It was first introduced into Spain “to adornate Gardens with the fairenesse thereof and to give a pleasant sight, but nowe we doe use it more for his meruelous medicinable vertues than for his fairenesse.”
From The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him, and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges evenly with mine.
From Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare
Say that my grief is no way medicinable But by the loss and bruising of thine honour.
From King Edward III by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
Whether this is a truth or not, is not my purpose to dispute: but 'tis certain, all that write of the Umber declare him to be very medicinable.
From The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
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