Cure /(kūr)/

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.

imp. & p. p. Cured; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.

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.