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Entry 12 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Cure

/(kūr)/ · IPA /kjʊɹ/
01 n. Care, heed, or attention.
  1. 1.
    Care, heed, or attention.[Obs.]
    “Of study took he most cure and most heed.” — Chaucer.
    “Vicarages of greatcure, but small value.” — Fuller.
  2. 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. 3.
    Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
  4. 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. 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.
02 v. t. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.
imp. & p. p. Cured; p. pr. & vb. n. Curing
  1. 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. 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. 3.
    To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
    “I never knew any man cured of inattention.” — Swift.
  4. 4.
    To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.
03 v. i. To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
  1. 1.
    To pay heed; to care; to give attention.[Obs.]
  2. 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. 3.
    To become healed.
    “One desperate grief cures with another's languish.” — Shak.