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

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

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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
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