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单词 remediable
释义

remediableadj.

Brit. /rᵻˈmiːdɪəbl/, U.S. /rəˈmidiəb(ə)l/, /riˈmidiəb(ə)l/
Forms: late Middle English–1600s remedyable, late Middle English– remediable.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French remediable; Latin remediābilis.
Etymology: < Middle French remediable (French remédiable ) capable of being remedied, curable (end of the 14th cent.; sense 2 is not paralleled in French until later: 1501 in an apparently isolated attestation) and its etymon classical Latin remediābilis able to be cured, curable, in post-classical Latin also healing, remedial (6th cent.) < remediāre remedy v. + -bilis -ble suffix.
1. Capable of being remedied; able to be put right or counteracted.
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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.
2. Capable of remedying something; remedial. Obsolete.
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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
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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
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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).
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