Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Potentially responsive to treatment with medicine; curable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of medication; that may be cured or healed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being medicated; admitting of being cured or healed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being medicated; admitting of being cured or healed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Furthermore this bit is Lindsay, not Farmer - but I'm sure that she would agree with it, the idea of fertility as a medicable condition, requiring powerful drugs or even surgical interventions to prevent a woman's body from doing exactly what it does naturally, is basicaly and ultimately the idea that femaleness itself is such a condition, a sort of XX Syndrome.
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It was the aqua tofana undiluted by mercy, instantaneous in its effect, and not medicable by any antidote.
The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861
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He was soon procured, and, prompt of practice, the hurts of Ralph Colleton were found to be easily medicable.
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia William Gilmore Simms 1838
ecbrenner commented on the word medicable
treatable, curable
May 15, 2009