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recurable

recurable adjective: curable, restorable.

Adjective

recurable (comparative more recurable, superlative most recurable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Curable, restorable.
    • This notwithstandyng, he continued his wonted porte, feastyng the Father, flatteryng the Mother, presentyng the Daughter, who delighted not in suche stale youthes, so that opertunitie (or the importunitie of the fates) serued, that to frustrate his enterprise, Loue began to wring the harte of a...1584, Barnabe Riche, The Second Tome of the Trauailes and Aduentures of Don Simonides Enterlaced With/ Varietie of Historie, Wherein the Curteous and Not Curious Reader, Maie Finde Matters So...
    • Whereby it appeareth that their miserie commeth not from others, as an accidentall occasion, but groweth from themselues as the proper cause: neither is it an ordinarie euill that is recurable, but a desperate ruine that is remedilesse: neither yet is it the subuersion of their state, or killing of...1607, [John Dod], A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Eleuenth and Twelfth Chapters of the Prouerbes of Salomon, London: […] Felix Kyngston, for Henrie Sharpe, page 15

Forms of recurable

comparativemore recurable
superlativemost recurable

Origin of recurable

From Middle English recureabile, recurable; equivalent to recure + -able.

Words formed from recurable

Questions about recurable

What does recurable mean?
Recurable means curable, restorable.
What part of speech is recurable?
Recurable is an adjective.

Words near recurable in the dictionary

  1. recuping
  2. recupped
  3. recupping
  4. recups
  5. recur
  6. recurable
  7. recurarization
  8. recurarizations
  9. recurate
  10. recurated
  11. recurates

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