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Webster 1913 Edition


Cure

Cure

(kūr)
,
Noun.
[OF,
cure
care, F., also, cure, healing, cure of souls, L.
cura
care, medical attendance, cure; perh. akin to
cavere
to pay heed, E.
cution
.
Cure
is not related to
care
.]
1.
Care, heed, or attention.
[Obs.]
Of study took he most
cure
and most heed.
Chaucer.
Vicarages of great
cure
, but small value.
Fuller.
2.
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy;
as, to resign a
cure
; to obtain a
cure
.
The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the
cure
of the souls of the parishioners.
Spelman.
3.
Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment;
as, to use the water
cure
.
4.
Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
Past hope! past
cure
! past help.
Shakespeare
I do
cures
to-day and to-morrow.
Luke xii. 32.
5.
Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a
cure
.
Dryden.
The proper
cure
of such prejudices.
Bp. Hurd.

Cure

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cured
(kūrd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Curing
.]
[OF.
curer
to take care, to heal, F., only, to cleanse, L.
curare
to take care, to heal, fr.
cura
. See
Cure
,.]
1.
To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; – said of a patient.
The child was
cured
from that very hour.
Matt. xvii. 18.
2.
To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; – said of a malady.
To
cure
this deadly grief.
Shakespeare
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to
cure
diseases.
Luke ix. 1.
3.
To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
I never knew any man
cured
of inattention.
Swift.
4.
To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.;
as, to
cure
beef or fish; to
cure
hay
.

Cure

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
[Obs.]
2.
To restore health; to effect a cure.
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles’ spear,
Is able with the change to kill and
cure
.
Shakespeare
3.
To become healed.
One desperate grief
cures
with another's languish.
Shakespeare

Cuˊré′

(kụˊrā̍′)
,
Noun.
[F., fr. LL.
curatus
. See
Curate
.]
A curate; a pardon.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cure

CURE

,
Noun.
[L., to cure, to take care, to prepare.]
1.
A healing; the act of healing; restoration to health from disease, and to soundness from a wound. We say, a medicine will effect a cure.
2.
Remedy for disease; restorative; that which heals.
Colds, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
3.
The employment of a curate; the care of souls; spiritual charge.

CURE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. See the Noun.]
1.
To heal, as a person diseased or a wounded limb; to restore to health, as the body, or to soundness, as a limb.
The child was cured from that very hour. Matthew 17.
2.
To subdue, remove, destroy or put an end to; to heal, as a disease.
Christ gave his disciples power to cure diseases. Luke 9.
When the person and the disease are both mentioned, cure is followed by of before the disease. The physician cured the man of his fever.
3.
To remedy; to remove an evil, and restore to a good state.
Patience will alleviate calamities, which cannot cure.
4.
To dry; to prepare for preservation; as, to cure hay; or to prepare by salt, or in any manner, so as to prevent speedy putrefaction; as, to cure fish or beef.

Definition 2024


cure

cure

See also: curé and curê

English

Noun

cure (plural cures)

  1. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
  2. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
    • Shakespeare
      Past hope! past cure!
    • Bible, Luke xii. 32
      I do cures to-day and to-morrow.
  3. A solution to a problem.
    • Dryden
      Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
    • Bishop Hurd
      the proper cure of such prejudices
  4. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
  5. A process of solidification or gelling.
  6. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
  7. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
    • Chaucer
      Of study took he most cure and most heed.
    • Fuller
      vicarages of great cure, but small value
  8. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Spelman
      The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
  9. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cure (third-person singular simple present cures, present participle curing, simple past and past participle cured)

  1. (transitive) To restore to health.
    Unaided nature cured him.
  2. (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
    • William Shakespeare
      Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure.
    • 2013 June 22, Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
      Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.
    Unaided nature cured his ailments.
  3. (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
    Experience will cure him of his naïveté.
  4. (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
    The smoke and heat cures the meat.
  5. (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
  6. (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
    The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.
  7. (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
    The parts were curing in the autoclave.
  8. (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
  9. (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
Synonyms
  • (restore to good health): heal
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French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin cura.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kyʁ/

Noun

cure f (plural cures)

  1. (archaic) care, concern
  2. (obsolete) healing, recovery
  3. (medicine) treatment; cure
  4. (religion) vicarage, presbytery

Verb

cure

  1. first-person singular present indicative of curer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of curer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
  5. second-person singular imperative of curer

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin cura.

Noun

cure f (plural curis)

  1. treatment
  2. cure

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Galician

Verb

cure

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of curar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of curar

Italian

Noun

cure f

  1. plural of cura

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Middle French

Etymology

Old French cure.

Noun

cure f (plural cures)

  1. desire

Descendants


Old French

Noun

cure f (oblique plural cures, nominative singular cure, nominative plural cures)

  1. medical attention
  2. worry
  3. desire

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Descendants

References

  • (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (cure)

Portuguese

Verb

cure

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of curar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of curar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of curar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of curar

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin currere, present active infinitive of currō. Mostly replaced by the modified variant form curge.

Verb

a cure (third-person singular present curge, past participle curs) 3rd conj.

  1. (archaic) to run
  2. (archaic) to flow
  3. (archaic) to drain

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Spanish

Verb

cure

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of curar.
  2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of curar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of curar.