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   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. t. [imp. & p. p. Cured (kūrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curing.] [OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr.  cura. See Cure,.]
   1. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.
   
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   The child was cured from that very hour. Matt. xvii. 18.
   
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   2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
   
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   To cure this deadly grief. Shak.
   
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   Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases. Luke ix. 1.
   
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   3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
   
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   I never knew any man cured of inattention. Swift.
   
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   4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, “to cure beef or fish; to cure hay”.
   
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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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