medicinable

[ muh-dis-uh-nuh-buhl ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. medicinal.

Word History and Origins

Origin of medicinable¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French. See medicine, -able

Example Sentences

I do leave to speake of many other hearbs medicinable and profitable for the vse of man: for that if I should write the particular vertue of euerie of them, it would require a great volume.

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In his disquisition on Argent or silver, he remarks, “Being fine it is medicinable.”

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It was first introduced into Spain “to adornate Gardens with the fairenesse thereof and to give a pleasant sight, but nowe we doe use it more for his meruelous medicinable vertues than for his fairenesse.”

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They have no less regard in like sort to cherish medicinable herbs fetched out of other regions nearer hand, insomuch that I have seen in some one garden to the number of three hundred or four hundred of them, if not more, of the half of whose names within forty years past we had no manner of knowledge.

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Also, hops and madder were grown again, and rare medicinable herbs.

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