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comparative more immedicable, superlative most immedicable
Incurable; not able to be assisted by medicine. quotations examples
Here love receiv'd immedicable harmes, / And was dispoiled of his daring armes.
1650, John Donne, Elegie XVII
wounds immedicable / Ranckle, and feſter, and gangrene, / To black mortification.
1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], page 42
The beastHas a loud trumpet like the Scarabee,His crookèd tail is barbed with many stings,Each able to make a thousand wounds, and eachImmedicable; from his convex eyesHe sees fair things in many hideous shapes,And trumpets all his falsehood to the world.
1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts