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. ]
Of study took he most cure and most heed. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spelman. [ 1913 Webster ]
Past hope! pastcure! past help. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
I do cures to-day and to-morrow. Luke xii. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]
Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
The proper cure of such prejudices. Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ F., fr. LL. curatus. See Curate. ] A curate; a pardon. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,
Is able with the change to kill and cure. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
One desperate grief cures with another's languish. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
The child was cured from that very hour. Matt. xvii. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]
To cure this deadly grief. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases. Luke ix. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]
I never knew any man cured of inattention. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Incapable of cure; incurable. [ 1913 Webster ]
With patience undergo
A cureless ill, since fate will have it so. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette; the act of scraping with a curette.
v. t.
‖n. [ F., fr. curer to cleanse. ] (Med.) A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb. [ 1913 Webster ]