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Remedy
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- 1 Something that corrects or counteracts.
- 2 act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil wordnet
- 3 The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
- 4 a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain wordnet
- 5 A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
"Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent."
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- 6 The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.
- 1 To provide or serve as a remedy for. transitive
"Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,"
- 2 provide relief for wordnet
- 3 set straight or right wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid.
From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid.
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