recurable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English recureabile, recurable; equivalent to recure + -able.
Adjective[edit]
recurable (comparative more recurable, superlative most recurable)
- (obsolete, rare) Curable, restorable.
- 1584, Barnabe Riche, The Second Tome of the Trauailes and Aduentures of Don Simonides Enterlaced With/ Varietie of Historie, Wherein the Curteous and Not Curious Reader, Maie Finde Matters So Leueled, as Maie Suffice to Please All Humours, London: […] Robert Walley:
- This notwithstandyng, he continued his wonted porte, feastyng the Father, flatteryng the Mother, presentyng the Daughter, who delighted not in suche stale youthes, so that opertunitie (or the importunitie of the fates) serued, that to frustrate his enterprise, Loue began to wring the harte of a yong Gentleman, one of the same Citie, who findyng his passion no otherwise recurable, but by the fauour of Orienta, practised in what he might to compasse his purpose, towarde the attainement of her good grace, in so muche, that as occasions were proffered, if Orienta would be holy, Fuluius would goe to Churche: if disposed to walke for recreation, her suppliaunt must take the ayre.
- 1607, [John Dod], A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Eleuenth and Twelfth Chapters of the Prouerbes of Salomon, London: […] Felix Kyngston, for Henrie Sharpe, page 15:
- Whereby it appeareth that their miserie commeth not from others, as an accidentall occasion, but groweth from themselues as the proper cause: neither is it an ordinarie euill that is recurable, but a desperate ruine that is remedilesse: neither yet is it the subuersion of their state, or killing of their bodie, which is but temporarie, but the perdition both of bodie and soule which is euerlasting.
- 1619, [Bartholomew Robertson], The Anatomie of a Distressed Soule […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, for Daniel Speed, page 123:
- […] ; for sinne not beeing cured in this world, endeth not in death; for what was in hope recurable, finite, measurable here, becommeth in hell incurable, infinite, vnmeasurable;