cure
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kjʊə(ɹ)/, /kjɔː(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /kjʊɹ/, /kjɔɹ/, /kjɝ/
- (Norfolk) IPA(key): /kɜː(ɹ)/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English cure, from Old French cure (“care, cure, healing, cure of souls”), from Latin cura (“care, medical attendance, cure”).
NounEdit
cure (plural cures)
- A method, device or medication that restores good health.
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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.
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- Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
- Shakespeare
- Past hope! past cure!
- Bible, Luke xiii. 32
- I do cures to-day and to-morrow.
- Shakespeare
- A solution to a problem.
- Dryden
- Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
- Bishop Hurd
- the proper cure of such prejudices
- Dryden
- 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.
- Chaucer
- Of study took he most cure and most heed.
- Fuller
- vicarages of great cure, but small value
- Chaucer
- Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
- (Can we date this quote?) Spelman
- The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
- (Can we date this quote?) Spelman
- That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.
Derived termsEdit
terms derived from cure (noun)
TranslationsEdit
method, device or medication that restores good health
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act of healing or state of being healed
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process of preservation
process of solidification or gelling
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process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English curen, from Old French curer, from Latin cūrāre.
VerbEdit
cure (third-person singular simple present cures, present participle curing, simple past and past participle cured)
- (transitive) To restore to health.
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Unaided nature cured him.
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- (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
- William Shakespeare
- Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure.
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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.
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Unaided nature cured his ailments.
- William Shakespeare
- (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
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Experience will cure him of his naïveté.
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- (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
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The smoke and heat cures the meat.
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- (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
- (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
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The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.
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- (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
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The parts were curing in the autoclave.
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- (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
- William Shakespeare
- One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
- William Shakespeare
- (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
SynonymsEdit
- (restore to good health): heal
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to restore to health
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to bring (a disease) to an end
to prepare for keeping or use
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Related termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French, from Latin cura.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cure f (plural cures)
- (archaic) care, concern
- (obsolete) healing, recovery
- (medicine) treatment; cure
- (religion) vicarage, presbytery
VerbEdit
cure
- first-person singular present indicative of curer
- third-person singular present indicative of curer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
- second-person singular imperative of curer
AnagramsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “cure” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
FriulianEdit
GalicianEdit
VerbEdit
cure
- first-person singular present subjunctive of curar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of curar
ItalianEdit
Middle FrenchEdit
Old FrenchEdit
NounEdit
cure f (oblique plural cures, nominative singular cure, nominative plural cures)
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- (fr) 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.