Meaning of medicinable | Babel Free

Definitions

Medicinal; having healing properties.

obsolete

Examples

“hee by his lawes, inhibiteth[…]the perswasion, that any evill may come unto man from the Gods, except for his greater good, and for a medicinable [translating medecinal] effect, whensoever he falleth into it.”

“I pray you in your Letters, / When you ſhall theſe vnluckie deeds relate, / Speake of me, as I am. […] / Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeit un-vsed to the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme.”

“[…] this Water is every way as Medicinable as the other; serving well in all Decoctions and Syrups, though it be not altogether so pleasing to the smell.”

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