1. Incurable.
1575. Gascoigne, Glasse of Govt., V. iii. The misgovernment of a mans children … is unto the wysest mynde an unmedicinable wounde.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., III. 160. To give date unto … thy violent and unmedicinable torture.
b. Refusing medical treatment.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XVI. 24. But these [chiefs] … physicians can recure, Thou yet unmed’cinable still, though thy wound all endure.
2. Incapable of effecting a cure.
1606. Chapman, Gent. Usher, IV. ii. Away with this unmedcinable balme Of worded breath.
1614. Latham, Falconry, 116. As it is a thing very medicinable,… being rightly giuen; so also, it is as vnmedicinable and hurtfull if … otherwise vsed.
