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Webster 1913 Edition


Remedy

Rem′e-dy

(r?m′?-d?)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Remedies
(-d[GREEK]z)
.
[L.
remedium
; pref.
re-
re- +
mederi
to heal, to cure: cf. F.
remède
remedy,
remédier
to remedy. See
Medical
.]
1.
That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; – with for;
as, a
remedy
for the gout
.
2.
That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; – followed by for or against, formerly by to.
What may else be
remedy
or cure
To evils which our own misdeeds have wrought,
He will instruct us.
Milton.
3.
(Law)
The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.
Civil remedy
.
See under
Civil
.
Remedy of the mint
(Coinage)
,
a small allowed deviation from the legal standard of weight and fineness; – called also
tolerance
.
Syn. – Cure; restorative; counteraction; reparation; redress; relief; aid; help; assistance.

Rem′e-dy

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Remedied
(-d?d)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Remedying
.]
[L.
remediare
,
remediari
: cf. F.
remédier
. See
Remedy
,
Noun.
]
To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract.
I will
remedy
this gear ere long.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Remedy

REM'EDY

,
Noun.
[L. remedium; re and medeor, to heal.]
1.
That which cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; with for; as a remedy for the gout.
2.
That which counteracts an evil of any kind; with for, to or against; usually with for. Civil government is the remedy for the evils of natural liberty. What remedy can be provided for extravagance in dress? The man who shall invent an effectual remedy for intemperance, will deserve every thing from his fellow men.
3.
That which cures uneasiness.
Our griefs how swift, our remedies how slow.
4.
That which repairs loss or disaster; reparation.
In the death of a man there is no remedy.

Definition 2024


remedy

remedy

English

Noun

remedy (plural remedies)

  1. Something that corrects or counteracts.
  2. (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
  3. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
    • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
      He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.

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remedy (third-person singular simple present remedies, present participle remedying, simple past and past participle remedied)

  1. (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.
    • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.
      Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
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