medicinable
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of medicinable
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French. See medicine, -able
Example Sentences
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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
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 Hakluyt, Richard
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)
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 Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair
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 The Advocate by Heavysege, Charles
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