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30 words match “CURABLE”

CURABLE a.
Capable of being cured; admitting remedy. "Curable diseases." Harvey. -- Cur"a*ble*ness, n. -- Cur`a*bly, adv.
INCICURABLE a.
Untamable. [R.]
INCURABLE a. 3 definitions
Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. A scirrh is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot.
INCURABLENESS n.
The state of being incurable; incurability. Boyle.
PROCURABLE a.
Capable of being procured; obtainable. Boyle.
SECURABLE a.
That may be secured.
UNCURABLE a.
Incurable.
CACOETHES n.
A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer.
CANKER n.
An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush.
CURABILITY n.
The state of being curable; curableness.
CURELESS a.
Incapable of cure; incurable. With patience undergo A cureless ill, since fate will have it so. Dryden.
DISTEMPER v.
o disorder; to disease. Shak. The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. Buckminster.
HYPOCHONDRIAC n.
A person affected with hypochondriasis. He had become an incurable hypochondriac. Macaulay.
IMMEDICABLE a.
Not to be healed; incurable. "Wounds immedicable." Milton.
INCURABILITY n.
The state of being uncurable; irremediableness. Harvey.
INSANABILITY n.
The state of being insanable or incurable; insanableness.
INSANABLE a.
Not capable of being healed; incurable; irremediable.
INSANABLENESS n.
The state of being insanable; insanability; incurableness.
INSANABLY adv.
In an incurable manner.
IRRECURED a.
Incurable. [Obs.]
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