Cure | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Cūre, n.

noun

n. [O. Fr. cure, care, now cure, healing, cure of souls, Pr. cura, care and cure. Sp., Pg., & It. cura, from Lat. cura, care, medical attendance, cure.] 1. Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.] Of study took he most cure and heed. Chaucer. Vicarages of great cure, but small value. Fuller. 2. Spiritual charge; care of souls; the office of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a curate; a curacy. The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spelman. These did not always hold their cures as honors and appendages to their Italian dignities. Milman.

Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; method of medical treatment; as, water-cure, &c. “Of surgery he knew the cures.” Gower.
Successful remedial treatment; restoration to health from disease; healing.

Past hope! past cure! past help! Shak. 5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; remedy; restorative. “Ills without a cure.” Dryden. “The proper cure of . . . prejudices.” Hurd.

Cūre, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. CURED; p. pr. & vb. n. CURING.] [Fr. curer, formerly to take care, to heal, now only to cleanse, Fr., Sp., & Pg. curar, It. curare, from Lat. curare, to take care, to heal, from cura. See supra.]

Sense 1. To bestow healing upon; to heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity.

The child was cured from that very hour. Matt. xvii. 18.

Sense 2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to bring relief of; to remedy; to remove. “To cure this deadly grief.” Shak.

Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases. Luke ix. 1.

Sense 3. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, &c.; as, to cure beef or fish.

Cūre, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To pay heed; to care. [Obs.] Construe that as you list, I do not cure. Chaucer. 2. To restore health: to effect a cure. Like Achilles’ spear, So able with the change to kill and cure. Shak. 3. To be healed; to become relieved or restored. One desperate grief cures with another’s languish. Shak.

Curé, n.

noun

(ku-rā'), n. [Fr.] A curate; a parson.