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#OnThisDay 100 years ago, Leonard Thompson became the first person to receive an injection of insulin to treat Type 1 diabetes. The treatment was found to be a success, providing a way to treat a previously incurable disease.

It also led to a Nobel Prize for the scientists that carried out the pioneering research into insulin, including Frederick Banting, pictured here.

More about Banting: https://bit.ly/3miRXfJ

n Incurable Fisherman Is Now Mourned

By KAREEM FAHIM

Julius Geller, who died Sunday at 93 and was buried Tuesday in New Farmingdale, N.Y., was a constant, welcome presence on Brooklyn’s fishing boats.

The act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, as by lethal injection or the suspension of extraordinary medical treatment.



The first meaning was the literal translation from the French, i.e. 'face-to-face'. Walpole was an incurable letter writer and, fortunately for us, many of his letters have been published in a collection of books, which provides the first citation we have of the term in English, in Letter to George Montague, July 1753:
Bernanke wins confirmation for second term at Fed

The Senate voted 70-30 to reappoint Ben Bernanke for a second four-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserv



nature

[名]

1 [U]((無冠詞))自然, 自然界（▼人間・精神・人工などと対立したものとしてとらえられている. 日本語の「自然」には人間・精神なども含まれることがあるので注意）；物質界；((しばしばN-))（山・木・動物など）自然界の要素, 万物

the beauties ［the laws］ of nature
自然の美［法則］

a struggle against nature
自然との戦い

preserve ［destroy］ nature
自然を保護［破壊］する.

2 [U]((無冠詞))（あらゆる現象を含めて）全宇宙［世界］；((通例N-))創造主, 造物主, 自然の女神（▼ふつう女性扱い）；宇宙に働く力（の総体）, 自然の摂理

leave things to nature
自然のなりゆきに任せる

in ［by］ the course of nature
自然のなりゆきで［順調に行けば］

Nature is the best physician.
((ことわざ)) 自然は最良の医者.

3 [U]（人工・人為に対して）自然さ, 迫真性, 真実味

true to nature
真に迫った.

4 [U][C]((しばしばthe 〜))本質, 本性, 天性, 性質, 特質, 性向, 性癖；気質；[C]…の気質をもった人；（人間の）自然のままの姿. ⇒DISPOSITION[類語]

the nature of humankind
人間の本質/性質

human nature
人情, 人間性

a cruel nature
意地悪な人［気質］

a person's better nature
人の優しい気持ち, 仏心

It was not (in) his nature to take an aimless holiday.
何の目的もなく休暇を取るなんて彼の性に合わなかった.

5 [U]（人の）本来の姿, 自然［野生, 原始, 未開］の状態

go back to nature
自然に帰る.

6 ((a ［the］ 〜))種類

two books of the same nature
同種類の本2冊.

7 [U]体力, 活力, 生命力；肉体的欲求

sustain nature
生命（力）を維持する.

8 [U]《神学》神の恩寵(おんちょう)に浴していない精神状態.

against nature

(1) 不自然な；人間性に反した, 非道な.
(2) 奇跡的な［に］, 不思議な［に］.

all nature

万物；((米略式))だれもかれも, 何もかも.

back to nature

自然［質素な生活］に帰って.

by nature/by one' (very) nature

生まれながらに, 生まれつき, 生来, 本質的に, 本来.

contrary to nature

＝against NATURE (2).

from nature

実物をモデルに

paint from nature
写生する.

in a state of nature

(1) 《神学》神の恩寵に浴していない精神状態で.
(2) 〈人が〉未開［原始］の状態で.
(3) 〈動植物が〉野生（状態）で；〈鉱物が〉天然に存在して.
(4) まる裸で.

in nature

(1) 実在して.
(2) ((否定の強意))全然, まったく.
(3) ((最上級の強意))この上なく, まったく.
(4) ((疑問の強意))一体全体

What in nature do you mean？
いったい何のことだ.

in ［by, from］ the nature of things ［the case］

物の道理として, 道理上, 必然的に.

like all nature

((米略式))完全に, すっかり, まったく.

of ［in］ the nature of ...

…の性質を帯びている, に似ている

His suggestion was of ［in］ the nature of an order.
彼の提案はむしろ命令に近かった.

［ラテン語nātūra （nātus生まれた＋-URE＝生まれてもつもの）. △NATION, NATIVE］



reappoint
v. t. (-point")To appoint again.



appoint
tr.v., -point·ed, -point·ing, -points.

1. To select or designate to fill an office or a position: appointed her the chief operating officer of the company.
2. To fix or set by authority or by mutual agreement: will appoint a date for the examination.
3. To furnish; equip: a house that is comfortably appointed.
4. Law. To direct the disposition of (property) to a person or persons in exercise of a power granted for this purpose by a preceding deed.

[Middle English appointen, from Old French apointer, apointier, to arrange, from a point, to the point : a, to (from Latin ad; see ad-) + point, point; see point.]

SYNONYMS appoint, designate, name, nominate, tap. These verbs mean to select for an office or position: was appointed chairperson of the committee; expects to be designated leader of the opposition; a new police commissioner named by the mayor; to be nominated as her party's candidate; was tapped for fraternity membership. See also synonyms at furnish.

incurable

[形]直らない, 矯正できない；変えることのできない, 根っからの, 病膏肓(こうこう)にはいった

an incurable disease ［invalid］
不治の病［病人］.

━━[名]不治の病人；救いがたい人.
incurable

(ĭn-kyʊr'ə-bəl)


adj.

1. Being such that a cure is impossible; not curable: an incurable disease.
2. Incapable of being altered, as in disposition or habits: an incurable optimist; an incurable smoker.

incurability in·cur'a·bil'i·ty or in·cur'a·ble·ness n.
incurable in·cur'a·ble n.
incurably in·cur'a·bly adv.