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
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 Monica Stevens
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 Monica Stevens
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
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
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