RECURE

Etymology

Verb

recure (third-person singular simple present recures, present participle recuring, simple past and past participle recured)

(obsolete) To cure, heal.

(obsolete) To restore (something) to a good condition.

(obsolete) To recover, regain (something that had been lost).

To arrive at; to reach; to attain.

Noun

recure (uncountable)

(obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery

But whom he hite, without recure he dies.

Source: Wiktionary


Re*cure" (r*kr"), v. t. Etym: [Cf. Recover.]

1. To arrive at; to reach; to attain. [Obs.] Lydgate.

2. To recover; to regain; to repossess. [Obs.] When their powers, impaired through labor long, With due repast, they had recured well. Spenser.

3. To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair. In western waves his weary wagon did recure. Spenser.

4. To be a cure for; to remedy. [Obs.] No medicine Might avail his sickness to recure. Lydgate.

Re*cure", n.

Definition: Cure; remedy; recovery. [Obs.] But whom he hite, without recure he dies. Fairfax.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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