单词 | remediable |
释义 | remediableadj. 1. Capable of being remedied; able to be put right or counteracted. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] > put right or amended > able to be remediable?a1425 corrigible1483 amendablea1500 recoverable1585 curable1592 sanable1623 rectifiable1629 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 44 None [sc. pestilence] was sich, for þay ocupied noȝt but one regioun, þis al þe worlde; þay were remediable [?c1425 Paris able to be holpen; L. remediabiles] in som þing, þis in no þing. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 147 (MED) Ymagis..ben had and vsid withoute ydolatrie, or with ydolatrie remediable, or with other harme remediable, namelich lasse than is the good comyng bi the vce of tho ymagis. a1500 (a1475) G. Ashby Dicta Philosophorum 838 in Poems (1899) 80 (MED) There is no man so wele hym behauyng But he may be in some thyng chargeable; Yet the case may be Remediable. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Aii/1 Remediable, recuperabilis. 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 311 Labouring to remedie that which he thought remediable. 1642 H. Ainsworth Orthodox Found. Relig. 37 Mans misery is remediable through the mercy of God. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. p. lxxxii They..were, when remediable, chiefly cured by the infusion of goose-dung. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 29 Apr. 25 This want..may seem easily remediable by some substitute or other. 1828 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 37 540 It is an evil..which will be found remediable, if the proper and obvious remedies are..applied. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 135 Where injustice, like disease, is remediable, there the remedy must be applied in word or deed. 1946 Liberty 25 May 83/3 Many hospitals are still concerned largely with ‘salvage medicine’—patching up human machines which are nearly worn out or hopelessly disabled by heart disease, high blood pressure, apoplexy, or a dozen other conditions which are only partly remediable. 1974 R. A. Caro Power Broker iv. xxiv. 495 The destruction of the natural values of a park was not a remediable mistake. 1995 D. Blake & V. Hanley Dict. Educ. Terms 13 Retardation is often irredeemable because of lack of intelligence but many believe that backwardness is remediable. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > [adjective] medicinala1384 wholesomea1387 healinga1398 medicinablea1398 restorativea1398 sanative14.. curatory?a1425 remediable1437 mildlya1475 curable1483 recurablea1500 curative1525 eradicative1543 good1580 physical1580 medicable1590 sanable1598 balsamic1605 therapeutical1606 medicinary1607 medicative1644 medical1646 therapeutic1646 salutary1649 salvative1653 boethetic1656 medicamentary1656 recuperatory1656 sanitating1656 medicamental1657 medicamentous1659 medicating1705 balmy1747 salving1751 sanatorya1832 salubrious1855 medicatory1864 recuperative1872 1437 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) V. 83 (MED) Greet ryotes..ar lykely to falle here aftir, withoute þat we put þerto oure hand remediable in þat behalf. a1450 (a1401) Chastising of God's Children (Bodl.) (1957) 168 (MED) Alle suche medicynes mowen be speedeful and remediable..to suche þat bien contynuanli occupied and traueilid wiþ wicked spiritis. a1500 Hymnal in R. S. Loomis Medieval Stud. in Memory G. S. Loomis (1927) 487 (MED) Graunt vs indulgence..That owr desyre may be profetable, And a yenst owr offence remediable. Derivatives reˈmediableness n. rare ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Remediableness. 1813 Medico-chirurg. Trans. 13 July 286 I have not observed that the lens undergoes any diminution, nor have I yet ascertained the remediableness of this case. 1997 Electr. Jrnl. (Nexis) June Other electric restructuring issues that illustrate the principles of feasibility and remediableness include the recovery of ‘stranded costs’, [etc.]. reˈmediably adv. rare ΚΠ 1846 ‘C. H. C.’ It Blows, it Snows vii. 213 The snow being well nigh dissolved along the beaten track of the highway, renders sleigh- travelling altogether impracticable, whilst the carriage wheels if remediably had recourse to, sink through the faint admixture of mud and snow. 1999 Studia Canonica (Nexis) 1 Sept. 33 If such a sentence is considered remediably null, a plaint of nullity can be lodged against it within three months from the notification of the sentence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?a1425 |
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