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Meaning of immedicable in English:

immedicable

Pronunciation /ɪˈmɛdɪkəb(ə)l/

adjective

archaic

  • Unable to be healed or treated; incurable.

    • ‘The evil was so wide-spreading, so violent and immedicable, that no care, no prevention could be judged superfluous, which even added a chance to our escape.’
    untreatable, inoperable, irremediable, beyond cure

Origin

Mid 16th century from Latin immedicabilis, from in- ‘not’ + medicabilis (see medicable).