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Webster 1913 Edition


Insanable

In-san′a-ble

,
Adj.
[L.
insanabilis
; cf. OF.
insanable
. See
In-
not, and
Sanable
.]
Not capable of being healed; incurable; irremediable.

Webster 1828 Edition


Insanable

INSAN'ABLE

,
Adj.
[L. insanabilis; in and sano, to heal.]
Incurable; that cannot be healed.

Definition 2024


insanable

insanable

English

Adjective

insanable (comparative more insanable, superlative most insanable)

  1. Not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.
    • 1921, Frank Moore Colby, The Margin of Hesitation, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, OCLC 1333261, page 132:
      [] by the Cirrhæan spikes, by the boiled head of my own baby served in Egyptian vinegar, I curse the whole insanable cacoëthical cohort of scriptitating—