Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not to be tamed; untamable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Untamable.
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- adjective rare Impossible to
tame .
Etymologies
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Latin incicur not tame; prefix in- not + cicur name.
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Examples
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What we have said of the mulberry, and the vast emolument rais’d by the very leaves, as well as wood of that only tree (beside those we now have mention’d, strangers till of late, and believ’d incicurable here,) were sufficient to excite and stir up our utmost industry.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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