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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.
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Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. --Fuller.
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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.
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The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had
the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
--Spelman.
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3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a
method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
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4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to
health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
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Past hope! pastcure! past help. --Shak.
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I do cures to-day and to-morrow. --Luke xii.
32.
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5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals;
a remedy; a restorative.
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Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
--Dryden.
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The proper cure of such prejudices. --Bp. Hurd.
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Cure \Cure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cured} (k[=u]rd); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Curing}.] [OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to
cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr. cura. See
{Cure},.]
1. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to
make well; -- said of a patient.
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The child was cured from that very hour. --Matt.
xvii. 18.
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2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to
remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
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To cure this deadly grief. --Shak.
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Then he called his twelve disciples together, and
gave them power . . . to cure diseases. --Luke ix.
1.
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3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as
from a bad habit.
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I never knew any man cured of inattention. --Swift.
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4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to
preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or
fish; to cure hay.
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Cure \Cure\, v. i.
1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.]
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2. To restore health; to effect a cure.
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Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,
Is able with the change to kill and cure. --Shak.
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3. To become healed.
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One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
--Shak.
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Cur'e \Cu`r['e]"\ (k[.u]`r[asl]"), n. [F., fr. LL. curatus. See
{Curate}.]
A curate; a pardon.
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