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Webster 1913 Edition
Recure
1.
To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
[Obs.]
Lydgate.
2.
To recover; to regain; to repossess.
[Obs.]
When their powers, impaired through labor long,
With due repast, they had
With due repast, they had
recured
well. Spenser.
3.
To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair.
In western waves his weary wagon did
recure
. Spenser.
4.
To be a cure for; to remedy.
[Obs.]
No medicine
Might avail his sickness to
Might avail his sickness to
recure
. Lydgate.
Re-cure′
,Noun.
Cure; remedy; recovery.
[Obs.]
But whom he hite, without
recure
he dies. Fairfax.
Webster 1828 Edition
Recure
RECU'RE
,Verb.
T.
RECU'RE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
recure
recure
English
Verb
recure (third-person singular simple present recures, present participle recuring, simple past and past participle recured)
- (obsolete) To cure, heal.
- Lydgate
- No medicine might avail his sickness to recure.
- Lydgate
- (obsolete) To restore (something) to a good condition.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.v:
- Phoebus pure / In westerne waues his wearie wagon did recure.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.v:
- (obsolete) To recover, regain (something that had been lost).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- By this he had sweet life recur'd agayne [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Lydgate to this entry?)
Noun
recure (uncountable)