insanable

English

Etymology

From Latin īnsānābilis. Compare Old French insanable. See in- (“not”) +‎ sanable.

Adjective

insanable (comparative more insanable, superlative most insanable)

  1. Not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.
    • 1921, Frank Moore Colby, The Margin of Hesitation, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, OCLC 1333261, page 132:
      […] by the Cirrhæan spikes, by the boiled head of my own baby served in Egyptian vinegar, I curse the whole insanable cacoëthical cohort of scriptitating—

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for insanable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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Adjective

insanable (plural insanables)

  1. insanable; uncurable

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