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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.

The state of being incurable; incurability. Boyle.

A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer.

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.

Incapable of cure; incurable. With patience undergo A cureless ill, since fate will have it so. Dryden.

to disorder; to disease. Shak. The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. Buckminster.

A person affected with hypochondriasis. He had become an incurable hypochondriac. Macaulay.

Not to be healed; incurable. "Wounds immedicable." Milton.

The state of being insanable or incurable; insanableness.

Not capable of being healed; incurable; irremediable.

The state of being insanable; insanability; incurableness.

In an incurable manner.

Incurable. [Obs.]

Not admitting relief; incurable; hopeless.

Not to be remedied, corrected, or redressed; incurable; as, an irremediable disease or evil.

ils, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.Mycobacterium leprae, curable in most cases by therapy with a combination of antibiotics, but cases resistant to therapy are increasing.

. -- Plague mark, Plague spot, a spot or mark of the plague; hence, a token of something incurable.

Not admitting of a remedy; incapable of being restored or corrected; incurable; irreparable; as, a remediless mistake or loss. "Chains remedilesse." Spenser. Hopeless are all my evils, all remediless. Milton.

Formerly, a wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospitel, Eng.; hence, a wandering mendicant, either mad or feigning to be so; a madman; a bedlamite.

Incurable.