Cure> (kūr), 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.]
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, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Cured (kūrd); 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.
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, 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.
Shak.
3. To become healed.
One desperate grief cures with another's
languish.
Shak.