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CURE, n. L., to cure, to take care, to prepare.

1. A healing the act of healing restoration to health from disease, and to soundness from a wound. We say, a medicine will effect a cure.

2. Remedy for disease restorative that which heals.

Colds, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.

3. The employment of a curate the care of souls spiritual charge.

CURE, L. See the Noun.

1. To heal, as a person diseased or a wounded limb to restore to health, as the body, or to soundness, as a limb.

The child was cured from that very hour. Matthew 17 .

2. To subdue, remove, destroy or put an end to to heal, as a disease.

Christ gave his disciples power to cure diseases. Luke 9 .

When the person and the disease are both mentioned, cure is followed by of before the disease. The physician cured the man of his fever.

3. To remedy to remove an evil, and restore to a good state.

Patience will alleviate calamities, which cannot cure.

4. To dry to prepare for preservation as, to cure hay or to prepare by salt, or in any manner, so as to prevent speedy putrefaction as, to cure fish or beef.