Word Meanings - CURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

souls, L. cura care, medical attendance, cure; perh. akin to cavere 1. Care, heed, or attention. Of study took he most cure and most heed. Chaucer. Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. Fuller. 2. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of

Additional info about word: CURE

souls, L. cura care, medical attendance, cure; perh. akin to cavere 1. Care, heed, or attention. Of study took he most cure and most heed. Chaucer. Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. Fuller. 2. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure. The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spelman. 3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure. 4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury. Past hope! pastcure! past help. Shak. I do cures to-day and to-morrow. Luke xii. 32. 5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative. Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure. Dryden. The proper cure of such prejudices. Bp. Hurd.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CURE)

• Heal
• Cure
• repair
• restore
• remedy
• assuage
• cicatrize
• reconcile
• Indemnify
• Compensate
• se cure
• satisfy
• reimburse
• Medicine
• Remedy
• physic
• antidote
• therapeutics
• salve
• cure
• corrective
• Recover
• Regain
• repossess
• resume
• retrieve
• recruit
• heal
• revive
• reanimate
• save
• restorative
• counteraction
• reparation
• redress
• relief
• help
• specific

Related words: (words related to CURE)

• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• REVIVEMENT
  Revival.
• RELIEFLESS
  Destitute of relief; also, remediless.
• REIMBURSEMENT
  The act reimbursing. A. Hamilton.
• RESTORATIVELY
  In a restorative manner.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• RECRUITER
  One who, or that which, recruits.
• REPARATION
  1. The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; -- in this sense, repair is oftener used. Arbuthnot. 2. The act of making amends or giving satisfaction
• PHYSICKING
  p. pr. & vb. n. fr. Physic, v. t.
• REVIVE
  To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. (more info) 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• CICATRIZE
  To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh. Wiseman.
• PHYSICIST
  One versed in physics.
• PHYSICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to nature ; in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and
• SALVE
  1. To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial traetment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound. Shak. 2. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble;
• REPOSSESS
  To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope. To repossess one's self of , to acquire again .
• PHYSICOLOGIC
  Logic illustrated by physics.
• PHYSICO-THEOLOGY
  Theology or divinity illustrated or enforced by physics or natural philosophy.
• RELIEF
  A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant. (more info) 1. The
• PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS
  Mixed mathematics.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• HYPERPHYSICAL
  Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural. Those who do not fly to some hyperphysical hypothesis. Sir W. Hamilton.
• METAPHYSICS
  first used by the followers of Aristotle as a name for that part of his writings which came after, or followed, the part which treated of 1. The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with
• CATAPHYSICAL
  Unnatural; contrary to nature. Some artists . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.
• RECRUIT
  recruiting, recruit, from recro, p.p. recr, to grow again) from an older recluter, properly, to patch, to mend ; pref. re- + 1. To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh
• METAPHYSICALLY
  In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician. South.
• CONSPECIFIC
  Of the same species.