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Webster 1913 Edition
Medicinable
Me-dic′i-na-ble
,Adj.
Medicinal; having the power of healing.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Medicinable
MEDIC'INABLE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
medicinable
medicinable
English
Adjective
medicinable (comparative more medicinable, superlative most medicinable)
- (archaic) Medicinal; having healing properties. [from 14th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- hee by his lawes, inhibiteth […] the perswasion, that any evill may come unto man from the Gods, except for his greater good, and for a medicinable [transl. medecinal] effect, whensoever he falleth into it.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, Act V, scene ii, page 338:
- I pray you in your Letters, / When you ſhall theſe vnluckie deeds relate, / Speake of me, as I am. […] / Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeit un-vsed to the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
Middle French
Adjective
medicinable m, f (plural medicinables)
- medicinal; that functions as a medicine
Old French
Adjective
medicinable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular medicinable)
- medicinal; that functions as a medicine