medicinable

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Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
23
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/məˈdɪs(ɪ)nəb(ə)l/ (UK)

Definition of medicinable

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (obsolete)Medicinal; having healing properties.
    “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 [translating medecinal] effect, whensoever he falleth into it.”
    “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.”
    “[…] this Water is every way as Medicinable as the other; serving well in all Decoctions and Syrups, though it be not altogether so pleasing to the smell.”

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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman medicinable, Middle French medicinable, or their source, Late Latin medicinabilis, from Latin medicīna.

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