What does "recure" mean?
Recure: To recover; to regain; to repossess. [Obs.] When their powers, impaired through labor long, With due repast, they had recured well. Spenser.
Additional senses
- 2.To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair. In western waves his weary wagon did recure. Spenser.
- 3.To be a cure for; to remedy. [Obs.] No medicine Might avail his sickness to recure. Lydgate.
- 4.Cure; remedy; recovery. [Obs.] But whom he hite, without recure he dies. Fairfax.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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