cureとは

意味・読み方・使い方

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”). Displaced native 古期英語 hǣlu.

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 after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Past hope! past cure!

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 13:32:

     I do cures to-day and to-morrow.

3. (figuratively) A solution to a problem.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:

     Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.

   • 1763, Richard Hurd, On the Uses of Foreign Travel

     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.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, OCLC 913056315:

     vicarages of great cure, but small value

8. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
   • c. 1646, Henry Spelman, De Non Temerandis Ecclesiis: Churches Not to Be Violated

     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.

   Synonym: curacy

派生語

語源 2

From Middle English curen, from Old French curer, from Latin cūrāre. Partially displaced 古期英語 ġehǣlan, whence Modern English heal.

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.

   Synonym: heal

   Unaided nature cured him.

2. (transitive) To bring (a disease または its bad effects) to an end.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:

     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. To preserve (food), typically by salting
8. (intransitive) To solidify or gel.

   The parts were curing in the autoclave.

9. (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

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

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