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adj- Having healing or curative properties.

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Usage examples (24)
  • Apothecaries, being there noted to be very medicinable against the stone in the reins: These be a part of the commendations which some
  • For when the use of wine was first found out, it was taken for a thing medicinable, and not used for a common drinke, and was to be found rather in apothecaries 'shops...
  • In these sandes is founde Momia, which is the fleshe of such men as are drowned in these sandes, and there dryed by the heate of the sunne: so that those bodyes are preserued...
  • They have no less regard in like sort to cherish medicinable herbs fetched out of other regions nearer hand, insomuch that I have seen in some one garden to the number...
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