recure

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See also: récuré and récure

English

Etymology

From Middle English recure, probably partly from Latin recūrāre, and partly from a reduced form of recover.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkjʊə(ɹ)/
Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

Verb

recure (third-person singular simple present recures, present participle recuring, simple past and past participle recured)

(obsolete) To cure, heal.
- c. 1513, John Lydgate, Troy Book:
  Be eschaunge of hym ye myghte best recure
  Withoute strif youre owne man ageyn
(obsolete) To restore (something) to a good condition.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: ">…] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 72:
  Phoebus pure / In weſterne waues his weary wagon did recure.
(obsolete) To recover, regain (something that had been lost).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: ">…] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 471:
  By this he had ſweet life recur’d agayne
To arrive at; to reach; to attain.

Derived terms

Noun

recure (uncountable)

(obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery
- 1600, , “The Eight Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax , transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. , London: Ar Hatfield, for I Iaggard and M Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 22, page 146:
  But whom he hits without recure he dies

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