Cure
Cure (kūr) , noun
[OF, cure care, French, also, cure, healing, cure of souls, Latin cura care, medical attendance, cure; perh. akin to cavere to pay heed, English cution. Cure is not related to care.]
1.
Care, heed, or attention. [Obsolete]
Of study took he most cure and most heed.
Vicarages of greatcure, but small value.
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.
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! pastcure! past help.
I do cures to-day and to-morrow.
5.
Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
The proper cure of such prejudices.
Cure (kūrd) , transitive verb
[Old French curer to take care, to heal, French, only, to cleanse, Latin curare to take care, to heal, from 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.
2.
To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
To cure this deadly grief.
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power... to cure diseases.
3.
To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
I never knew any man cured of inattention.
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 , intransitive verb
1.
To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obsolete]
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.
3.
To become healed.
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
Curé (ku`ra") , noun
[French, from Late Latin curatus. See Curate.]
A curate; a pardon.
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