CURE

cure. Cure, n. a remedy, the employment of a curate

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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. 1. Care, heed, or attention.
Of study took he most cure and most heed. Chaucer. Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. Fuller. 2. 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. 3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
4. 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. 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.