cureとは

語源 1

From Middle English cure, borrowed from Old French cure (“care, cure, healing, cure of souls”), from Latin cura (“care, medical attendance, cure”).

名詞

cure (複数形 cures)

1. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.

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

     Past hope! past cure!

   • Bible, Luke xiii. 32

     I do cures to-day and to-morrow.

3. A solution to a problem.
   • Dryden

     Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.

   • Bishop Hurd

     the proper cure of such prejudices

4. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
5. A process of solidification or gelling.
6. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
7. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
   • Chaucer

     Of study took he most cure and most heed.

   • Fuller

     vicarages of great cure, but small value

8. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Spelman

     The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.

9. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.

派生語

語源 2

From Middle English curen, from Old French curer, from Latin cūrāre.

動詞

cure (三人称単数 現在形 cures, 現在分詞 curing, 過去形および過去分詞形 cured)

1. (transitive) To restore to health.

   Unaided nature cured him.

2. (transitive) To bring (a disease または its bad effects) to an end.
   • William Shakespeare

     Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure.

   • 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:

     Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.

   Unaided nature cured his ailments.

3. (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).

   Experience will cure him of his naïveté.

4. (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.

   The smoke and heat cures the meat.

5. (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
6. (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.

   The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.

7. (intransitive) To solidify or gel.

   The parts were curing in the autoclave.

8. (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
   • William Shakespeare

     One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

9. (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

同意語

• (restore to good health): heal

派生語

• cure-all
• incurable
• miscure
• uncure

関連する語

アナグラム

• crue, cuer, ecru, écru