Definition of Healable

1. a. Capable of being healed.

Definition of Healable

1. Adjective. Receptive to treatment or cure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Healable

1. heal [adj] - See also: heal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Healable

headword
headwords
headwork
headworks
headwrap
headwraps
heady
headyard
headyards
heaf
heah
heal
heal-all
heal all
heal up
healable (current term)
healall
heald
healded
healding
healds
healed
healed tuberculosis
healed ulcer
healee
healees
healer
healers
healest
healeth

Literary usage of Healable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"Cures all curable diseases," indeed, " heals all healable wounds !" We wonder the monarch, with the faith that he possessed, which, ..."

2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... to restore anything from an unsound to a sound stale ; to cure a wound or distemper. To HEAL, (hele) i>. n. To grow well. healable,' (hele'-a-bl) a. ..."

3. Development of English Literature and Language by Alfred Hix Welsh (1885)
"... which cures all curable diseases with ease, prolongs human life in perfect health and vigor of faculty to its utmost term, heals all healable ..."

4. A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language by George Lillie Craik (1871)
"... heals all healable wounds, is a most sovereign antidote against all poisons, and is capable," the enumeration of virtues concludes, " of preserving to ..."

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