Apothecaries, being there noted to be very medicinable against the stone in the reins: These be a part of the commendations which some.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Compleat Angler] Reference

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 than in tavernes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 348, December 27, 1828] Reference

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 from putrifaction by the drynesse of the sand; and therefore that drye fleshe is esteemed medicinable. 23.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

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 of three hundred or four hundred of them, if not more, of the half of whose names within forty years past we had no manner of knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

And it is observed by Gesner, that the bones, and hearts, & gals of Pikes are very medicinable for several Diseases, as to stop bloud, to abate Fevers, to cure Agues, to oppose or expel the infection of the Plague, and to be many wayes medicinable and useful for the good of mankind; but that the biting of a Pike is venemous and hard to be cured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Compleat Angler] Reference

And vppon the toppe of the Chariot, was placed a stoole of green Iasper, set in siluer: needfull in byrth, and medicinable for chastitie; at the foote it was sixe square, and growing smaller towarde the seate, and from the middle to the foote, champhered and furrowed, and vpward wrought with nextrulles: the seate whereof was somewhat hallowed, for the more easily sitting vppon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame] Reference

Sassaphras, and diuers others wholesome, and medicinable hearbes and trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.] Reference

The physicians make the galls and stones in the heads of Carps to be very medicinable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation] Reference

Whether this is a truth or not, is not my purpose to dispute: but 'tis certain, all that write of the Umber declare him to be very medicinable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation] Reference

There is also Pellitory of Spaine, Sasafrage, and divers other simples, which the Apothecaries gathered, and commended to be good, and medicinable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents That Befell Them in All Their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of All Those Countryes, Their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion Yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith, Sometymes Governour in Those Countryes & Admirall of New England] Reference

Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him, and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges evenly with mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Much Ado About Nothing] Reference

Gentle fingers had applied to hands and feet, to all those old passage-ways of the senses, through which the world had come and gone for him, now so dim and obstructed, a medicinable oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2] Reference

They abound more in the river Po, and in England, says Rondeletius, than other parts: and have in their brain a stone, which is, in foreign parts, sold by apothecaries, being there noted to be very medicinable against the stone in the reins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation] Reference

Bullokar was also the first compiler to identify the domain of a particular term: the word decoction he described as "a boyling or seething; in Phisicke it signifieth commonly any liquor in which medicinable roots, herbas, seedes, flowers or any other thyng hath beene boyled.".    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1] Reference

Their drink is commonly water, but while the grape lasteth they drink wine, and for want of casks to keep it, all the year after they drink water; but it is sodden with ginger in it, and black cinnamon, and sometimes sassafras, and divers other wholesome and medicinable herbs and trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10] Reference

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 of there hundred or four hundred of them, if not more, of the half of whose names within forty years past we had no manner of knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Gardens and Orchards. Chapter III. [1587, Book II., Chapter 20] Reference

Criticising mythology Plato speaks of certain fables, to be made by those who are apt at such things, under proper spiritual authority, so to term it, hôs en pharmakou eidei ta pseudê ta en deonti genomena, + medicinable lies or fictions, with a provisional or economised truth in them, set forth under such terms as simple souls could best receive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato and Platonism] Reference

That civil respects are a lett that this pretended reason should not be so contemptibly spoken of as were fit and medicinable, in regard that hath been too much exalted and glorified, to the infinite detriment of man’s estate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature] Reference

The worst of it is that this kind of concentrated writing needs so much SOLUTION before the reader can fairly get the good of it, that people's patience fails them, and they give the thing up as insoluble; though, truly, it ought to be to the current of common thought like Saladin's talisman, dipped in clear water, not soluble altogether, but making the element medicinable. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference

Amidst the ether, whose medicinable eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Tropic Isle] Reference

Amidst the other; whose medicinable eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Troilus and Cressida] Reference

786: medicinable to me, I am sicke in displeasure to him, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Much Ado About Nothing (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference

"medicinable fictions.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato and Platonism] Reference

And it is observed by Gesner, that the jaw-bones, and hearts, and galls of Pikes, are very medicinable for several diseases, or to stop blood, to abate fevers, to cure agues, to oppose or expel the infection of the plague, and to be many ways medicinable and useful for the good of mankind: but he observes, that the biting of a Pike is venomous, and hard to be cured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation] Reference