In*cur"a*ble (?), a. [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.
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In*cur"a*ble, n.
A person diseased beyond cure.
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