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    Cure , 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 ; 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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