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Recure

//ɹɪˈkjʊə(ɹ)// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    cure; remedy; recovery obsolete, uncountable

    "But whom he hits without recure he dies[…]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To cure, heal. obsolete

    "Be eschaunge of hym ye myghte best recure Withoute strif youre owne man ageyn"

  2. 2
    To restore (something) to a good condition. obsolete

    "Phoebus pure / In weſterne waues his weary wagon did recure."

  3. 3
    To recover, regain (something that had been lost). obsolete

    "By this he had ſweet life recur’d agayne […]"

  4. 4
    To arrive at; to reach; to attain.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English recure, probably partly from Latin recūrāre, and partly from a reduced form of recover.

Etymology 2

From Middle English recure, probably partly from Latin recūrāre, and partly from a reduced form of recover.

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