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verb

Cure v. t. (past & past part. cured; pres. part. curing)

1.

To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; said of a patient. "The child was cured from that very hour."

2.

To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; said of a malady. "To cure this deadly grief." "Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power... to cure diseases."

3.

To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. "I never knew any man cured of inattention."

4.

To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.

Cure v. i.

1.

To pay heed; to care; to give attention. (Obs.)

2.

To restore health; to effect a cure. "Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure."

3.

To become healed. "One desperate grief cures with another's languish."

Curing v. P. a. & vb. n. of Cure.

Curing house, a building in which anything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried.

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Etymology of 'Curing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Curing" Quotes from Famous Books

... distinction between Operative Witchcraft and Ritual Witchcraft. Under Operative Witchcraft I class all charms and spells, whether used by a professed witch or by a professed Christian, whether intended for good or for evil, for killing or for curing. Such charms and spells are common to every nation and country, and are practised by the priests and people of every religion. They are part of the common heritage of the human race and are therefore of no practical value in the study of any ...

— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray

... bee desirous to have this of ours become commodious either for preserving of our healths, or for altering any distemper, or curing any infirmity (for which it is proper and availeable) it ought chiefly to bee taken at the fountaine it selfe, before the minerall spirits ...

— Spadacrene Anglica - The English Spa Fountain • Edmund Deane

... since it is used for curing hides. The bark contains a dye. It is said to resemble Equisetum[21] in appearance, and in this latter plant a ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 • Various

... look exactly like the body of the letter. Possibly they may have been, in advertising parlance, "stock letters." They purported to be from kind-hearted philanthropists who were in the business of curing people simply because they loved humanity. Some of them were from persons who had been cured of something and who now, in a spirit of generosity, were trying to let others similarly afflicted know what the great ...

— Confessions of a Neurasthenic • William Taylor Marrs

... the benefit of his own experience in an art which he has made so completely his own. In the chapter on elocution he lays down excellent principles for the delivery of sermons and suggests means of curing the most common defects that mar pulpit oratory. Finally, he gives elaborate hints on the best means of composing sermons. For instance, the sermon writer is advised to seize without delay, and commit to writing, a brilliant thought no matter how unseasonable the time at which it presents ...

— The Young Priest's Keepsake • Michael Phelan

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