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medicinable

[muh-dis-uh-nuh-buh l]
adjective Archaic.
  1. medicinal.
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Origin of medicinable

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French. See medicine, -able
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Examples from the Web for medicinable

Historical Examples

  • He accounted them lies without the 'medicinable quality,' and reprobated their employment in the instruction of youth.

    Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern

    Thomas Newbigging

  • In his disquisition on Argent or silver, he remarks, “Being fine it is medicinable.”