Definition of Cure

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Definition of Cure

Cure

Care, heed, or attention.

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.

Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.

Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.

Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.

To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.

To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.

To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.

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

To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

To restore health; to effect a cure.

To become healed.

A curate; a pardon.

Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest.

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Cure Quotations

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George Washington

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
W. C. Fields

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde

Cure Translations

cure in Afrikaans is behandel
cure in Danish is behandle
cure in Dutch is behandelen, cureren
cure in Finnish is parantaa
cure in German is heilen
cure in Italian is guarire
cure in Latin is medicor, rememdium
cure in Portuguese is cura
cure in Spanish is curacion, curar
cure in Swedish is botemedel, kurera, bota

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