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Cure   /kjʊr/   Listen
noun
Cure  n.  
1.
Care, heed, or attention. (Obs.) "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  n.  A curate; a pardon.


verb
Cure  v. t.  (past & past part. cured; pres. part. curing)  
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  v. i.  
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."
3.
To become healed. "One desperate grief cures with another's languish."





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"Cure" Quotes from Famous Books



... Industrial Structure to its Environment. 2. Reform upon the Basis of Private Enterprise and Free Trade. 3. Freedom and Transparency of Industry powerless to cure the deeper Industrial Maladies. 4. Beginnings of Public Control of Machine-production. 5. Passage of Industries into a public Non-competitive Condition. 6. The raison d'etre of Progressive Collectivism. 7. Collectivism follows the line of Monopoly. 8. Cases of "Arrested Development:" the Sweating ...
— The Evolution of Modern Capitalism - A Study of Machine Production • John Atkinson Hobson
... foundered from beneath him, as father used to say; but, if it doesn't have any worse effect than that, I shall declare the whole business a mercy and a miracle. If it has the effect of curin' him of the Marietta Hoag kind of spiritualism—and it really looks like a cure—then it will be worth all the scare it gave us. At first all he would say was that everything was a fraud and a cheat, that his faith had been taken away, there was nothin' left—nothin'. But Lulie, bless her ...
— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln
... infected them all; robbery and murder took place with impunity on many of the principal high roads. Two dreadful laws, the law of the hostages, and that of the forced loans, occasioned greater evils than they could cure. No nation had ever existed in which the finances of the state were in equal confusion; and a succession of partial bankruptcies prolonged the opprobrium of the general bankruptcy of the country. The money ...
— Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I • Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon
... in this theatre, but she must (may I tell her?) arrest the development of "the Fatal Caesura," that exasperating histrionic device whereby every salient phrase is broken up for no conceivable reason into two halves. In the secondary stages there is but slender hope of a cure; in the tertiary ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916 • Various
... moments after eight, the attack commenced; the first assault was headed by Cathelineau, who rushed into the trenches, accompanied by the Cure of St. Laud. Father Jerome held a large crucifix in his hands, and as he followed Cathelineau, he lifted it high above his head, to encourage the men who were about to make the assault; hundreds of ...
— La Vendee • Anthony Trollope


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