I.that cannot be cured or healed, incurable (class.).
II. Trop., irretrievable, without remedy, hopeless: “contumeliae,” Cic. Or. 26, 89: “ingenium,” Liv. 1, 28, 9: “nihil insanabilius,” id. 28, 25, 7: “insanabili leto perire,” Plin. 24, 17, 100, § 157: “dolor,” Quint. 6 prooem. § 6:“ caput insanabile tribus Anticyris,” Hor. A. P. 300: “scribendi cacoethes,” Juv. 7, 51.—Adv.: insānābĭlĭter , incurably, Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 2, 45: aeger, Marcell. et Faust. ap. Libr. Prec. ad Imp. p. 19 Sirmond.