recure Meaning, Definition & Usage

Re*cure" transitive verb

Etymology

Cf. Recover.

Definitions

1. To arrive at; to reach; to attain. Obs. Lydgate.
2. To recover; to regain; to repossess. Obs.

   When their powers, impaired through labor long, With due repast, they had recured well. Spenser.

3. To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair.

   In western waves his weary wagon did recure. Spenser.

4. To be a cure for; to remedy. Obs.

   No medicine Might avail his sickness to recure. Lydgate.

Re*cure" noun

Definitions

1. Cure; remedy; recovery. Obs.

   But whom he hite, without recure he dies. Fairfax.