Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Potentially responsive to treatment with medicine; curable.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of medication; that may be cured or healed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being medicated; admitting of being cured or healed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Capable of being medicated; admitting of being cured or healed.

Etymologies

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Latin medicabilis, from medicare, medicari, to heal, from medicus physician. See medical.

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Examples

  • Furthermore this bit is Lindsay, not Farmer - but I'm sure that she would agree with it, the idea of fertility as a medicable condition, requiring powerful drugs or even surgical interventions to prevent a woman's body from doing exactly what it does naturally, is basicaly and ultimately the idea that femaleness itself is such a condition, a sort of XX Syndrome.

    Abortion Figures Shame This Country 2007

  • It was the aqua tofana undiluted by mercy, instantaneous in its effect, and not medicable by any antidote.

    The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861

  • He was soon procured, and, prompt of practice, the hurts of Ralph Colleton were found to be easily medicable.

    Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia William Gilmore Simms 1838

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  • treatable, curable

    May 15, 2009