- Cure
- Cure Cure (k[=u]r), n. [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.]
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Of study took he most cure and most heed. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. --Spelman. [1913 Webster]
3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure. [1913 Webster]
4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury. [1913 Webster]
Past hope! pastcure! past help. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
I do cures to-day and to-morrow. --Luke xii. 32. [1913 Webster]
5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative. [1913 Webster]
Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
The proper cure of such prejudices. --Bp. Hurd. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.