Recure
Origin
Probably partly from Latin recÅ«rÄre, and partly from a reduced form of recover.
Full definition of recure
Verb
- (obsolete) To cure, heal.
- LydgateNo medicine might avail his sickness to recure.
- (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. - (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 ....
- To arrive at; to reach; to attain.