recure meaning (obsolete): definition, etymology and quotations

recure

verb

/ɹɪˈkjʊə(ɹ)/

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

Obsolete To cure, heal.

Be eschaunge of hym ye myghte best recure Withoute strif youre owne man ageync. 1513, John Lydgate, Troy Book:

Obsolete To restore (something) to a good condition.

Phoebus pure / In weſterne waues his weary wagon did recure.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 72:

Obsolete To recover, regain (something that had been lost).

By this he had ſweet life recur’d agayne […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 471:

To arrive at; to reach; to attain.

noun

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

Obsolete cure; remedy; recovery

But whom he hits without recure he dies[…]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: