recure
recure is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To recover; to regain; to repossess. [Obs.] When their powers, impaired through labor long, With due repast, they had recured well. Spenser.
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Definition-first questions whose answer is recure.
- What is to recover; to regain; to repossess. [Obs.] When their powers, impaired through labor long, With due repast, they had recured well. Spenser called?
- What is to restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair. In western waves his weary wagon did recure. Spenser called?
- What is to be a cure for; to remedy. [Obs.] No medicine Might avail his sickness to recure. Lydgate called?
- What is cure; remedy; recovery. [Obs.] But whom he hite, without recure he dies. Fairfax called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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