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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

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

  1. (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

  1. (obsolete) To cure, heal.
    • Be eschaunge of hym ye myghte best recure Withoute strif youre owne man ageyn c. 1513, John Lydgate, Troy Book:
  2. (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:
  3. (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:
  4. To arrive at; to reach; to attain.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
recures Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
recuring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
recured Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
recured Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

recureless · unrecuring · unrecurable · recurable