recure
English
Etymology
Probably partly from Latin recūrāre, and partly from a reduced form of recover.
Verb
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- (obsolete) To cure, heal.
- Lydgate
- No medicine might avail his sickness to recure.
- Lydgate
- (obsolete) To restore (something) to a good condition.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.v:
- Phoebus pure / In westerne waues his wearie wagon did recure.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.v:
- (obsolete) To recover, regain (something that had been lost).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- By this he had sweet life recur'd agayne […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Lydgate to this entry?)
Noun
recure (uncountable)