cure

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From Old French, cure (care, cure, healing, cure of souls), from Latin cura (care, medical attendance, cure)

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cure (plural cures)

  1. a method, device or medication that restores good health
  2. a solution to a problem
  3. a process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering
  4. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
  5. 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
    • (Can we date this quote?) Spelman:
      The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.

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cure (third-person singular simple present cures, present participle curing, simple past and past participle cured)

  1. to restore to good health; to relieve from a disease or its ill effects
  2. to preserve a food or other product such as tobacco
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  • (restore to good health): heal
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[edit] French

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Latin cura.

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cure f. (plural cures)

  1. (archaic) care, concern
  2. (obsolete) healing, recovery
  3. (medicine) treatment; cure
  4. (religion) vicarage, presbytery

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cure

  1. first-person singular present indicative of curer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of curer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
  5. second-person singular imperative of curer

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cure

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of curar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of curar

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cure f.

  1. Plural form of cura.

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From Latin currere, present active infinitive of currō. Mostly replaced by the modified variant form curge.

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a cure (third-person singular present cure, past participle curs3rd conj.

  1. (archaic) to run
  2. (archaic) to flow
  3. (archaic) to drain

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cure (infinitive curar)

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of curar.
  2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of curar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of curar.
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