Middle English Dictionary Entry
remediāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | remediāble adj. |
| Etymology | OF remedïable & L remediābilis. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Affording remedy or relief, remedial; (b) able to be remedied, reparable; of a disease: treatable, curable.
Associated quotations
a
- (1437) Proc.Privy C.5.83 : Greet ryotes..ar lykely to falle here aftir, withoute þat we put þerto oure hand remediable in þat behalf.
- a1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)168/19 : Alle suche medicynes mowen be speedeful and remediable..to suche þat bien contynuanli occupied and traueilid wiþ wicked spiritis.
- a1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)209/9 : Þese remedies, wiþ kepyng of silence and wiþ preiers for hem þat wraþþen us, mowen be spedeful and comfortable in tyme of nede,and remediable to refreyne þis passion.
- a1500 Add.Hymnal (Add 34193)487/31 : Graunt vs indulgence..That owr desyre may be profetable, And a yenst owr offence remediable.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)44a/b : None [pestilence] was sich, for þay ocupied noȝt but one regioun, þis al þe worlde; þay were remediable [Ch.(2): able to be holpen; L remediabiles] in som þing, þis in no þing.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)147 : Ymagis..ben had and vsid withoute ydolatrie, or with ydolatrie remediable, or with other harme remediable, namelich lasse than is the good comyng bi the vce of tho ymagis.
- a1500(a1475) Ashby Dicta (Cmb Mm.4.42)838 : There is no man so wele hym behauyng But he may be in some thyng chargeable; Yet the case may be Remediable.