immedicable

[ ih-med-i-kuh-buhl ]

adjective

1. incurable.

immedicable

/ ɪˈmɛdɪkəbəl /

adjective

1. (of wounds) unresponsive to treatment

Derived Forms

• imˈmedicableness, noun
• imˈmedicably, adverb

Other Words From

• im·medi·ca·ble·ness noun
• im·medi·ca·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of immedicable¹

First recorded in 1525–35, immedicable is from the Latin word immedicābilis incurable. See im- ², medicable

Example Sentences

As Innocent III. declared, it was a disease of the Church immedicable by either soothing remedies or fire; and Peter Cantor, who died in the odor of sanctity, relates with approval the story of a Cardinal Martin, who, on officiating in the Christmas solemnities at the Roman court, rejected a gift of twenty pounds sent him by the papal chancellor, for the reason that it was notoriously the product of rapine and simony.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet, in spite of the disadvantages of a combat so unequal, and although the partisans of religion were accoutred with every possible weapon, and could show themselves openly, in accordance with law, while their adversaries had no arms but those of reason, and could not appear personally but at the peril of fines, imprisonment, torture, and death, and were restricted from bringing all their arsenal into service, yet they have inflicted profound, immedicable, and incurable wounds upon superstition.

From Project Gutenberg

It was the fierce outcry of a man in torment, the immedicable torment of an injured pride.

From Project Gutenberg

That immedicable wound, however, was not to be healed by one or even by many interviews, and, while Franklin did subsequently devise his lands in Nova Scotia to William Franklin and release him from certain debts, he could not refrain from a bitter fling in doing so.

From Project Gutenberg

And at those words I rose and I went out And for nine days he had food from other hands, And for nine days my mind went whirling round The one disastrous zodiac, muttering That the immedicable mound's beyond Our questioning, beyond our pity even.

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Related Words

• deadly
• fatal
• hopeless
• inoperable