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cure(1) (iou)



cure noun1. ME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin cura care.]
I. Care, heed, concern; anxiety. ME-E17.
Care committed to a person, responsibility; a duty, an office. ME-M17.
Ecclesiastical.
a. More fully cure of souls. The spiritual charge or oversight of parishioners etc. ME.
b. A parish; the people under the charge of a priest; a sphere of spiritual ministry. L15.
Medical treatment. LME-E18.
Successful medical treatment; the action or process of healing a sick person, an illness, etc.; a thing that does this, a remedy. LME.
miracle cure: see MIRACLE noun.
E. S. Turner Physical cures happen at Lourdes and the phenomenon cannot be ignored. T. S. Eliot Tried to impose upon me Your own diagnosis, and prescribe your own cure.
a. A particular method or course of medical treatment. M19.
rest-cure: see REST noun1.
A. Flint In order to carry out..the 'milk-cure',..milk..should be taken largely.
b. A period of residence at a health-resort, under medical regimen, in order to restore or benefit one's health. Cf. KURSAAL. L19.
W. S. Maugham The cure at Montecatini had not done him the good he expected.
II.
The curing or preserving of fish, pork, etc.; a catch of fish so treated. M18.
The process of curing rubber or plastic; the degree of hardness produced. E20.
cureless adjective incurable, irremediable M16.
curelessly adverb M19.