Definition of "medicable" []

• Potentially responsive to treatment with medicine; curable: medicable conditions; a medicable complaint. (adjective)

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• "Furthermore this bit is Lindsay, not Farmer - but I'm sure that she would agree with it, the idea of fertility as a medicable condition, requiring powerful drugs or even surgical interventions to prevent a woman's body from doing exactly what it does naturally, is basicaly and ultimately the idea that femaleness itself is such a condition, a sort of XX Syndrome."
• "It was the aqua tofana undiluted by mercy, instantaneous in its effect, and not medicable by any antidote."
• "He was soon procured, and, prompt of practice, the hurts of Ralph Colleton were found to be easily medicable."