Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cure again; cure; heal.
- To recover; get well.
- noun Recovery.
- To recover; get again.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Cure; remedy; recovery.
- transitive verb obsolete To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
- transitive verb obsolete To recover; to regain; to repossess.
- transitive verb To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair.
- transitive verb obsolete To be a cure for; to remedy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
cure ,heal . - verb obsolete To
restore (something) to a good condition. - verb obsolete To
recover ,regain (something that had been lost). - noun obsolete
cure ;remedy ;recovery
Etymologies
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Examples
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I used it for two years ... then wanted more of a challenge and switched to a compoung and eventually a recure.
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I used it for two years ... then wanted more of a challenge and switched to a compoung and eventually a recure.
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Phoebus > (Who each day drives his chariot across the sky) 9 In western waves his weary wagon did recure. recure > restore, refresh
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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After having, as he said, "recure la bouche" for these gentlemen spoke French like their own language and used it among themselves to keep their servants from understanding -- after having wet his whistle with a large glass of sparkling rosy French wine, he cried:
The Secret of the Night Gaston Leroux 1897
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With such strange termes her eyes she doth inure, that with one looke she doth my life dismay: and with another doth it streight recure, her smile me drawes, her frowne me driues away.
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Which default when as some endeuoured to salue and recure, they patched vp the holes with peces and rags of other languages, borrowing here of the french, there of the Italian, euery where of the Latine, not weighing how il those tongues accorde with themselues, but much worse with ours: So now they have made our English tongue, a gallimaufray or hodgepodge of al other speches.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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The wounded louer deter mineth to make sute to his lady for his recure.
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Comrade Rudd plans to recure capitalism from eating itself.
SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists DanielBell 2009
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That from or on which something is developed. recure v. To cure again. raillery n.
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But there is a [recure] in the debt covenant probably?
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
bilby commented on the word recure
Like Hermite poore in pensive place obscure
I mean to end my dayes with endlesse doubt,
To waile such woes as time cannot recure,
Where none but love shall ever finde me out.
- Walter Raleigh, 'To day a man, To morrow none', 1644.
August 5, 2009