cure
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kjʊə(ɹ)/, /kjɔː(ɹ)/
- (General American) enPR: kyo͝or, kyûr, IPA(key): /kjʊɹ/, /kjɝ/
- (Norfolk) IPA(key): /kɜː(ɹ)/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ)
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English cure, borrowed from Old French cure (“care, cure, healing, cure of souls”), from Latin cura (“care, medical attendance, cure”). Displaced native Old English hǣlu.
NounEdit
cure (plural cures)
- A method, device or medication that restores good health.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
- Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
- Past hope! past cure!
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 13:32:
- I do cures to-day and to-morrow.
- (figuratively) A solution to a problem.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:
- Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
- 1763, Richard Hurd, On the Uses of Foreign Travel
- the proper cure of such prejudices
- A process of preservation, as by smoking.
- A process of solidification or gelling.
- (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
- (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, Church-History of Britain
- vicarages of great cure, but small value
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, Church-History of Britain
- Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
- c. 1646, Henry Spelman, De Non Temerandis Ecclesiis: Churches Not to Be Violated
- The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
- c. 1646, Henry Spelman, De Non Temerandis Ecclesiis: Churches Not to Be Violated
- That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
- Synonym: curacy
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English curen, from Old French curer, from Latin cūrāre. Partially displaced Old English ġehǣlan, whence Modern English heal.
VerbEdit
cure (third-person singular simple present cures, present participle curing, simple past and past participle cured)
- (transitive) To restore to health.
- Synonym: heal
- Unaided nature cured him.
- (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
- Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,
Is able with the change to kill and cure.
- 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
- Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.
- Unaided nature cured his ailments.
- (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
- Experience will cure him of his naïveté.
- (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
- The smoke and heat cures the meat.
- (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
- (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
- The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.
- To preserve (food), typically by salting
- (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
- The parts were curing in the autoclave.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
- One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
- (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French cure, from Old French cure, from Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cure f (plural cures)
- (archaic) care, concern
- (obsolete) healing, recovery
- (medicine) treatment; cure
- (religion) vicarage, presbytery
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VerbEdit
cure
- first-person singular present indicative of curer
- third-person singular present indicative of curer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of curer
- second-person singular imperative of curer
Further readingEdit
- “cure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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FriulianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
cure f (plural curis)
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GalicianEdit
VerbEdit
cure
- first-person singular present subjunctive of curar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of curar
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ure
NounEdit
cure f
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Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
cure
- Alternative form of curre
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerke of Oxenfordes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:
- Of studie took he moost cure and moost heede.
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Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French cure.
NounEdit
cure f (plural cures)
DescendantsEdit
- French: cure
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
cure f (oblique plural cures, nominative singular cure, nominative plural cures)
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ReferencesEdit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (cure)
PortugueseEdit
VerbEdit
cure
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of curar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of curar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of curar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of curar
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin currere, present active infinitive of currō, from Proto-Italic *korzō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-. Mostly replaced by the modified variant form curge.
VerbEdit
a cure (third-person singular present curge, past participle curs) 3rd conj.
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cure