The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recure \Re*cure"\, n. Cure; remedy; recovery. [Obs.]
But whom he hite, without recure he dies.
--Fairfax.
Recure \Re*cure"\ (r?*k?r"), v. t. [Cf. Recover.]
To arrive at; to reach; to attain. [Obs.]
--Lydgate.-
To recover; to regain; to repossess. [Obs.]
When their powers, impaired through labor long, With due repast, they had recured well.
--Spenser. -
To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair.
In western waves his weary wagon did recure.
--Spenser. -
To be a cure for; to remedy. [Obs.]
No medicine Might avail his sickness to recure.
--Lydgate.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) cure; remedy; recovery vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To cure, heal. 2 (context obsolete English) To restore (something) to a good condition. 3 (context obsolete English) To recover, regain (something that had been lost). 4 To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
Usage examples of "recure".
Who comming to that soule-diseased knight,Could hardly him intreat, to tell his griefe:Which knowne, and all that noyd his heauie sprightWell searcht, eftsoones he gan apply reliefeOf salues and med'cines, which had passing priefe,And thereto added words of wondrous might:By which to ease he him recured briefe,And much asswag'd the passion of his plight,That he his paine endur'd, as seeming now more light.
But ere his hand he could recure againe,To ward his bodie from the balefull stound,He smote at him with all his might and maine,So furiously, that ere he wist, he foundHis head before him tombling on the ground.
Whom when the Saluage saw so sore distrest,He reared her vp from the bloudie ground,And sought by all the meanes, that he could best,Her to recure out of that stony swound,And staunch the bleeding of her dreary wound.