Word Finder - cure

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A method, device or medication that restores good health.

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Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.

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A solution to a problem.

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A process of preservation, as by smoking.

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A process of solidification or gelling.

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A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.

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Care, heed, or attention.

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Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.

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

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• curacy

I hope it will cure him.

One can't cure anything.

If I find a cure, we'll revisit this conversation.

Carmen took her to the doctor, but he said there was no cure for the common cold and not to worry about it.

I bankroll people who cure aids.

The spread of syphilis, a disease equally unknown to the ancients, and the failure of Galen's remedies to cure it, had a similar effect.

The diseases or sicknesses of beer and wine had from time immemorial baffled all attempts at cure.

Deidre made a deal with the Dark One, one good enough to bring her soul back from the dead, combine the two Deidres, cure the tumor of one and release the final product from Hell.

Not a cure, but it sure beats insulin shots.

Simply reading how to cure your depression is a great first step in feeling better.

It's not a condition you can cure by watching a funny movie or willing yourself to get better.

On his return to London he published an Enquiry into the Nature, Cause, and Cure of a Singular Disease of the Eyes, with a dedication to the Royal Society.

There is no treatment or cure for the disease.

He consulted the Pythia about a cure for the consequent madness, but she declined to answer him.

Journey to the feast of tabernacles; invitation to the soul athirst to come to Him (the fountain of Life) and drink, and proclamation of Himself as the Light of the world; cure of the man born blind; allegory of the good shepherd.

The event justified his sombre previsions, but did not cure the recklessness of the so-called patriots.

Gaspard Mermillod (1824-1891) was named in 1864 cure of Geneva, and made bishop of Hebron in partibus, acting as the helper of the bishop of Lausanne.

Chimkent is visited by consumptive patients who wish to try the koumiss cure.

Near it is the goats' whey cure establishment of Heinrichsbad, and the two castles of Rosenberg and Rosenburg, ruined in 1403 when the land rose against its lord, the abbot of St Gall.

Let the medicine man or magician pray that the fever may pass into the frog, and the frog be forthwith released, and the cure will be effected.

The use of mechanical refrigerating plants for chilling the pork has made it practicable to cure the bacon with the use of a small percentage of salt, leaving it mild in flavour when delivered in European markets.

This relieves the dropsy, but it does not cure the condition on which the dropsy depends.

Cornelius Sulla, and still frequented by the Greeks for the cure of gout, rheumatism and digestive disorders.

A town in the island was called Hephaestia, and the functions of the god must have been wide, as we are told that his Lemnian priests could cure snakebites.

In the vicinity is Karlshof, a celebrated establishment for the cure of epileptic diseases.

During the next six years, he so constantly advocated a responsible executive as the one cure for the political and economic evils of the time that he was known as "the man of one idea."

The cure proposed by Pasteur was simply to take care that the stock whence graine was obtained should be healthy, and the offspring would then be healthy also.

This excessive adulteration quickly worked its own cure by a decreased consumption, and the weighting in practice in 1910 is confined to moderate and safer limits.

Even though, in his all too brief pontificate, he failed to attain any definite results, he at least fulfilled the first condition of any cure by laying bare the seat of disease, gave an important impetus to the cause of the reform of the Church, and laid down the principles on which this was afterwards carried through.

The mineral was made known to white men by the Indians, who sold it, under the name of Seneca oil, as a cure for various ills, and burned it at some of their ceremonies.

It has an Evangelical, an English, a Russian and three Roman Catholic churches, a theatre, and various benevolent institutions, besides all the usual buildings for the lodging, cure and amusement of the numerous visitors who are attracted to this, the most popular watering-place in Bavaria.

It was observed by the animal magnetists at the beginning of the 19th century in France and Germany, that certain of their subjects, when in the "magnetic" trance, could foretell accurately the course of their diseases, the date of the occurrence of a crisis and the length of time needed to effect a cure.

The earth was considered in ancient times a cure for old festering wounds, and for the bite of poisonous snakes.

It is much frequented as a health and summer resort, and has a variety of lake, brine, vegetable and pine-cone baths, a hydropathic establishment, inhalation chambers, whey cure, &c. There are a great number of excursions and points of interest round Gmunden, specially worth mentioning being the Traun Fall, 10 m.

Peltigera canin g, which formed the basis of the celebrated " pulvis antilyssus " of Dr Mead, long regarded as a sovereign cure for hydrophobia; Platysma juniperinum, lauded as a specific in jaundice, no doubt on the similia similibus principle from a resemblance between its yellow colour and that of the jaundiced skin; Peltidea aphthosa, which on the same principle was regarded by the Swedes, when boiled in milk, as an effectual remedy for the aphthae or rash on their children.

The fishing industry of the Netherlands may be said to have been in existence already in the 13th century, and in the following century received a considerable impetus from the discovery how to cure herring by William Beukelszoon, a Zeeland fisherman.

Moreover Gregory strictly forbade monks to minister in parish churches, ordaining that any monk who was promoted to such ecclesiastical cure should lose all rights in his monastery and should no longer reside there.

Efforts have been made since 1882 to cure the waterlogged condition of the marshy grounds.

Defective, however, as they may have been, and unfounded in fact, his kabbalistic doctrines led him to trace the dependence of the human body upon outer nature for its sustenance and cure.

If he could get potent drugs to cure disease he was content, and he worked very hard in an empirical way to make them.

Before 1898 there were also donative advowsons, but the Benefices Act 1898 made all donations with cure of souls presentative.

The pay of the village cure averages £80 a year and a house.

A wiser but less vigorous reformer was Robert Baldwin, who saw that in responsible government lay the cure for the political green-sickness from which Upper Canada was suffering.

The excellent toleration of atropine displayed by children must be remembered, and if its use is "pushed" a cure may almost always be expected.

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It has been used for the cure of lupus and of keloid, in which case it is administered hypodermically.

In medicine it acts like other volatile oils and has a reputation as a cure for colds.

In both the patient was withdrawn from the multitude and the cure was wrought with the accompaniment of symbolic actions.

Moreover, in one case Jesus is described as groaning before He spoke; in the other the cure was at first incomplete; and both of the men were strictly charged to observe silence afterwards.

The other disciples, in the meantime, had been vainly endeavouring to cure a peculiarly violent case of demoniacal possession.