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remediable, a.|rɪˈmiːdɪəb(ə)l|
Also 5 -medy-, 6 -mede-.
[a. F. remédiable (15th c.), or ad. L. remediābilis curative, curable, f. remediāre to remedy: see -able.]
†1. Capable of remedying; remedial. Obs.
c1491Chast. Goddes Chyld. 46 Suche medycynes may be spedefull and remedyable. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. 397 Layng medicine remedeable to her warking woundis.
2. Capable of being remedied or redressed.
1570Levins Manip. 4/9 Remediable, recuperabilis. 1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 311 Labouring to remedie that which he thought remediable. 1641H. Ainsworth Orth. Found. Relig. 37 Mans misery is remediable through the mercy of God. 1707Sloane Jamaica I. p. lxxxii, They..were, when remediable, chiefly cured by the infusion of goose-dung. 1758Johnson Idler No. 3 ⁋7 This want..may seem easily remediable by some substitute or other. 1828Southey in Q. Rev. XXXVII. 540 It is an evil..which will be found remediable, if the proper and obvious remedies are..applied. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 135 Where injustice, like disease, is remediable, there the remedy must be applied in word or deed.
Hence reˈmediableness (Bailey, 1727, vol. II); reˈmediably adv. (Webster, 1847). |