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recure en · NOUN
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈkjʊə(ɹ)/
Etymology
From Middle English recure, probably partly from Latin recūrāre, and partly from a reduced form of recover.
Meanings
(obsolete, uncountable) cure; remedy; recovery
But whom he hits without recure he dies[…] 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Eight Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 22, page 146:
recure en · VERB
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈkjʊə(ɹ)/
Etymology
From Middle English recure, probably partly from Latin recūrāre, and partly from a reduced form of recover.
Meanings
(obsolete) To cure, heal.
Be eschaunge of hym ye myghte best recure
Withoute strif youre owne man ageyn c. 1513, John Lydgate, Troy Book:
(obsolete) To restore (something) to a good condition.
Phoebus pure / In weſterne waues his weary wagon did recure. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 72:
(obsolete) To recover, regain (something that had been lost).
By this he had ſweet life recur’d agayne […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 471: