Cure (kūr), n. [OF, cure care, F., also, cure, healing, cure of souls, L. cura care, medical attendance, cure; perh. akin to cavere to pay heed, E. cution. Cure is not related to care.] 1. Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.]
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Of study took he most cure and most heed. Chaucer.
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Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. Fuller.
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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.
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The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spelman.
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3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
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4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
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Past hope! pastcure! past help. Shak.
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I do cures to-day and to-morrow. Luke xii. 32.
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5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
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Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure. Dryden.
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The proper cure of such prejudices. Bp. Hurd.
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Cure, v. i. 1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.]
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2. To restore health; to effect a cure.
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Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,
Is able with the change to kill and cure. Shak.
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3. To become healed.
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One desperate grief cures with another's languish. Shak.
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