Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being healed or cured; susceptible of remedy; curable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being healed or cured; susceptible of remedy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Capable of being healed or cured; remediable.

Etymologies

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Latin sanabilis, from sanare to heal, from sanus sound, healthy. See sane.

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Examples

  • Church are strained to breaking; and the condition is not sanable while the quarrel between the Patriarch and Scholarius waxes hotter. "

    The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866

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