7 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Kneippism \Kneipp"ism\, n. Also Kneipp's \Kneipp's\, or Kneipp
\Kneipp\, cure \cure\
Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking
barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold
affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian
Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cure \Cure\> (k?r), 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.]
Of study took he most cure and most heed. --Chaucer.
Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. --Fuller.
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.
The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had
the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
--Spelman.
3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a
method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to
health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
Past hope! pastcure! past help. --Shak.
I do cures to-day and to-morrow. --Luke xii.
32.
5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals;
a remedy; a restorative.
Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
--Dryden.
The proper cure of such prejudices. --Bp. Hurd.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cure \Cure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cured} (k?rd); 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.
The child was cured from that very hour. --Matt.
xvii. 18.
2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to
remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
To cure this deadly grief. --Shak.
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and
gave them power . . . to cure diseases. --Luke ix.
1.
3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as
from a bad habit.
I never knew any man cured of inattention. --Swift.
4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to
preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or
fish; to cure hay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cure \Cure\, v. i.
1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.]
2. To restore health; to effect a cure.
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is
able with the change to kill and cure. --Shak.
3. To become healed.
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
--Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cur'e \Cu`r['e]"\ (k[.u]`r[asl]"), n. [F., fr. LL. curatus. See
{Curate}.]
A curate; a pardon.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cure
n : a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
[syn: {remedy}, {curative}]
v 1: provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured
the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients
but never managed to" [syn: {bring around}, {heal}]
2: prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order
to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"
3: make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure
resin"
4: be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"
From eng-fra [engfra]:
cure
[kjeər]
guérir, soigner
guérir
assainir