Of study took he most cure and most heed. --Chaucer.
Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. --Fuller.
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. 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. --Shak.
I do cures to-day and to-morrow. --Luke xii.
32.
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.
The child was cured from that very hour. --Matt.
xvii. 18.
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. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as
from a bad habit.
I never knew any man cured of inattention. --Swift.
4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to
preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or
fish; to cure hay.
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.
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
--Shak.