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INCURABLES
Noun
incurables
plural of incurable
Source: Wiktionary
INCURABLE
In*cur"a*ble, a. Etym: [F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See In- not, and Curable.]
1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. A scirrh is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot.
2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils. Rancorous and incurable hostility. Burke. They were laboring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance. Sir J. Stephen.
Syn.
– Irremediable; remediless; irrecoverable; irretrievable; irreparable; hopeless.
In*cur"a*ble, n.
Definition: A person diseased beyond cure.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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