† 1. That cannot be recovered; completely lost.
14[?]. Brut, 319. Ȝet thilk Northren wynd … lost good wiþoute nombre vnrecouerable.
1448. Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 401. Al sumes … bath recouerable and unrecouerable.
a. 1500. Chaucer’s Dreme, 1753. This hasty farme had bene a feast, And now is unrecoverable.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, I. v. To lament the losse of such a jewell, so much the more, as that skilful men in that arte assured it was unrecoverable.
1617. Moryson, Itin., I. 278. The vnrecouerable losse of time.
1650. Baxter, Saints’ R., III. ii. 281. Oh my unconceiveable unrecoverable loss!
2. From which no recovery is possible; past remedy or cure.
1561. Daus, trans. Bullinger on Apoc., 533. The most certaine, vnrecouerable, and most weightie destruction of Rome.
1584. R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., XIII. xxxiv. (1886), 287. To make an unrecoverable wound in your bellie.
1608. Machin, Dumbe Knt., III. I doe not think this ill Is yet so big as unrecoverable.
1644. Vicars, God in Mount, 1. An unrecoverable cursed estate of damnation.
1888. Amer. Jrnl. Psychol., Feb., 333. Loss of memory is so commonly associated with unrecoverable cases.
