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medicinable, a. and n.|ˈmɛdsɪnəb(ə)l|
Forms: 4–7 medycinable, 4–6 medicynable, 5 medecynnabil, medycynable, 6 medcynable, medsonable, mediscenable, 7 medicineable, 6–9 med'cinable, 4– medicinable.
[a. OF. medecinable, f. medeciner: see medicine v. and -able.]
A. adj.
1. Having healing or curative properties; = medicinal. Obs. exc. poet. or arch.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiv. xxi. (Tollem. MS.), Olyues and medicynable herbes and swete spices. c1407Lydg. Reason & Sens. 5630, I saugh the..herbes ful medycynable. c1425St. Christina xi. in Anglia VIII. 124/1 Hee bonde vppe hir legge wiþ medecynnabil cloþes. 1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. xxii. (1870) 177 Welles of water the whych..be mediscenable for sycke people. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 146 Cowe milk is most medicinable. 1604Shakes. Oth. v. ii. 351 Drop teares as fast as the Arabian Trees Their Medicinable gumme. 1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. (1865) 10 Many..haue beene restored by that medicineable Climate to their former..health. 1796Coleridge To J. Cottle, Herbs of medicinable powers. 1842Sir A. De Vere Song of Faith 72 Paradise Of priceless and most medicinable fruits. 1885Pater Marius II. 218 Soothing fingers had applied to his hands and feet..a medicinable oil.
b. fig. and in figurative context.
c1400Apol. Loll. 21 Medicinable comyning wiþ þe kirk or sacraments of it. c1440Alphabet of Tales 422 Be þi medycynable tong I trow at God shall delyver me from my moste errour. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. ii. 150 Pacience the medsonable meane, To take all fautles falles, reioisinglie. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iii. ii. 33 Some griefes are medcinable, that is one of them, For it doth physicke Loue. 1798J. Hucks Poems 146 In memory's stores, I seek the med'cinable balm.
†2. Of or belonging to medicine. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 318/1 Medcynable belongyng to physicke. 1586Bright Melanch. xl. 268 It yeeldeth no medicinable tast to the mouth. 1607Markham Caval. i. (1617) 57 Then you shall seek by medicinable means to recouer them.
†3. medicinable finger = leech-finger; medicinable ring, app. a blessed ring supposed to cure diseases. Obs.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 313 The iiijthe fynger, whiche is callede the fynger medicinable. a1483Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. (1790) 23 Item, to the king's offerings to the crosse on Good Friday, out from the Countyng-house, for medycinable rings of gold & sylver.
†B. n. A medicinal substance. Obs.
1683Tryon Way to Health 560 A great number of Medicinables..of our own growth, proper for the Cure of those Diseases that are generated in our Elevation.
Hence † medicinableness.
1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. i. (1682) 167 The medicinableness of every one [of these fruits] is so affix'd to its own Branch that it is not communicated to another. |