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Cure

Cure (cure)
n.> (k1913 webster dictionaryr)
Cure
[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 greatcure, 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! pastcure! past help.
    Shak.

    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

Cure (cure)
v. t.
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.
    Shak.

    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

Cure (cure)
v. i.
Cure
  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.
    Shak.

  3. To become healed.

    One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
    Shak.

Curé

Curé (cure)
n.(k***usdot]`r***asl]")
||Cu`ré"
[F., fr. LL. curatus. See Curate.]
  1. A curate; a pardon.












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