01 a. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.
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Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.“A scirrhus is not absolutely incurable.” — Arbuthnot.
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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.