recure

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)

1. (obsolete) To cure, heal.
   • c. 1513, John Lydgate, Troy Book:

     Be eschaunge of hym ye myghte best recure
     Withoute strif youre owne man ageyn

2. (obsolete) To restore (something) to a good condition.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 72:

     Phoebus pure / In weſterne waues his weary wagon did recure.

3. (obsolete) To recover, regain (something that had been lost).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 471:

     By this he had ſweet life recur’d agayne […]

4. To arrive at; to reach; to attain.

Derived terms

• recurable
• unrecurable

Noun

recure (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery
   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Eight Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 22, page 146:

     But whom he hits without recure he dies […]