incurable (s.xiii2/4)
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incurable (s.xiii2/4)

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  FEW:  curare 2/ii,1562a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  incurable 10,6c TL: incurable 4,1370 DEAF:  incurable I190 DMF:  incurable  TLF:  incurable  OED:  incurable adj. and n.  MED:  incurable adj.  DMLBS:  incurabilis 1317a
 

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1med.(of disease, wound) incurable: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Lientere qui vient de dissintere que l'en a eu devant si jujons nos a incurable  i 223
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  c’est qe la plaie est moelt mortel et si incurable qe nul medicine ne la purroit eider ne garrir  216
♦theol.(of vice, moral fault) impossible to root out, that cannot be cured: 
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  Luxure ensi q’est incurable Fait tache en l’alme plus grevable  9643
2ruined, unrealizable: 
( 1402 )  le dite comune profit serra incurable pur toutz jours  iii 518
curable 
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