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CURE, n. [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, v.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.
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CURE, n. [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, v.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. | CURE, n. [L. cura; Fr. cure; L. curo; to cure, to take care, to prepare; W. cûr, care, a blow or stroke, affliction; curaw; to beat, throb, strike; curiaw, to trouble, to vex, to pine, or waste away; Fr. curer, to cleanse; “se curer les dents,” to pick the teeth; It. cura, care, diligence; curare, to cure, attend, protect; also, to value or esteem; Sp. cura, cure, remedy, guardianship; curar, to administer medicines; to salt, as meat; to season, as timber; to bleach thread or linen; to take care; to recover from sickness; curioso, curious, neat, clean, handsome, fine, careful. The radical sense of this word is, to strain, stretch, extend, which gives the sense of healing, that is, making strong, and of care, superintendence. But the Welsh has the sense of driving, a modified application of extending, and this gives the sense of separation and purification. In its application to hay, timber, provisions, &c., the sense may be to make right, as in other cases; but of this I am not confident.]- 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.
- Remedy for disease; restorative; that which heals.
Colds, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure. – Dryden.
- The employment of a curate; the care of souls; spiritual charge.
CURE, v.t. [L. curo. See the Noun.]- 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. Matth. xvii.
- To subdue, remove, destroy or put an end to; to heal, as a disease.
Christ gave his disciples power to cure diseases. Luke ix.
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.
- To remedy; to remove an evil, and restore to a good state. Patience will alleviate calamities, which it can not cure.
- 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.
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- Care, heed, or
attention.
- To heal] to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make
well; -- said of a patient.
- To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
- A curate; a pardon.
- 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.
- To subdue or remove by remedial means;
to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
- To restore health; to effect a
cure.
- Medical or hygienic care; remedial
treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use
the water cure.
- To set free from (something injurious
or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
- To become healed.
- Act of healing or state of being
healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after
injury.
- To prepare for preservation or
permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as,
to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.
- Means of the removal of disease or
evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
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Cure CURE, noun [Latin , 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 transitive [Latin 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 17:16. 2. To subdue, remove, destroy or put an end to; to heal, as a disease. Christ gave his disciples power to cure diseases. Luke 9:1. 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.
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