medicinable
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of medicinable
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French. See medicine, -able
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Barleybranne the Ilanders doe vse in stead of salt: medicinable things holsome for the bodie haue they none at all.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Richard Hakluyt
Some griefs are medicinable; and this is one.—Shakespeare.
From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou
The physicians make the galls and stones in the heads of Carps to be very medicinable.
From The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
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
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
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