a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxviii. 31 He despisis þe curys & þe noyes of þis life.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. i. 60 Lo quhou gret cure, quhat travell, pane and dowt.

?1556 (a1500) Knight of Curtesy (Copland) sig. A.iii Alas In to this cure who hath you brought.

c1300 Beket 837 And [he] quath the quit al clenliche [of] eche other cure [Laud MS. wike] ther.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxxiv. 1390 Pan haþ cure of schepe and of scheperdes.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxi. sig. h.i Temporall cures, and busynesse worldly.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. viii. f. 38 The women..haue also the cure of tyllage of the grounde.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. Pref. 2 The Church hath in her immediate cure those inner parts and affections of the mind.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 57 Cranmer had declared..that God had immediately committed to Christian princes the whole cure of all their subjects.]

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. iv. 33 For my little Cure, Let me alone. View more context for this quotation

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 776 Here grows the Cure of all, this Fruit Divine. View more context for this quotation

1776 A. M. Toplady in Gospel Mag. Mar. 131 Let the Water and the Blood..Be of sin the double Cure.

1825 A. Caldcleugh Trav. S. Amer. II. xv. 109 The most certain cure is to send those attacked from the elevated spot as soon as possible.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 9 A cure for the headache.

1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 122 That the Wort may have also its Cure as well as the Hop.

1757 W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate 36 For the Performance of which Method of Cure [salting pork].

1883 A. Shea Newfoundland Fisheries 7 The cure of the fish requires much care and judgment... The best cure is effected when the weather is variable.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 143 The fish caught round the Newfoundland coast are generally of good quality, but the Labrador cure..is often very inferior.

1911 ‘Viking’ Art of Fishcuring xiv. 67 When salting the fish in the tubs it would not be advisable to put one day's fish down upon the top of the previous day's cure.

1957 Fish Marketing in W. Europe (O.E.E.C.) ii. 41 The demand for salted herring was declining, and..the consumer was showing more interest in soft cures, such as pickled, marinated and smoked.

1887 Time Oct. 420 The month's ‘cure’ at Carlsbad.

1898 Daily News 22 July 5/1 One of the speakers was an old cure servant.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 10/2 The number of cure-guests registered [at Carlsbad].

1906 Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 8/1 Cure-seekers at Homburg.

1908 T. P. O'Connor Campbell-Bannerman 123 He rarely took the cure [at Marienbad].

1908 T. P. O'Connor Campbell-Bannerman 123 The severe waters which the other cure-guests were taking.

1921 D. H. Lawrence Let. ?8 May (1962) II. 653 I..can't sit supping for ever at these inside Baden-Baden cure-springs.

1955 Times 5 July 8/4 [He] has left Berlin on his annual leave for an undisclosed destination ‘to take a cure’.

1967 E. S. Turner Taking Cure 9 Taking the cure was usually a quest for healing waters.

1902 C. O. Weber Chem. India Rubber ix. 301 The pigments and other colouring matters contained in the india rubber…contain some impurity which is responsible for their discoloration, or perhaps the ‘cure’ has been too prolonged or carried out at too high a temperature.

1907 H. L. Terry India-rubber 32 Fine Para rubber..varies slightly in its properties and price according as it is ‘Up-river hard cure’ or ‘Island soft cure’.

1908 H. A. Wickham Parà Rubber 24 Extraction and cure of the rubber latex.

1908 H. A. Wickham Parà Rubber 29 The antiseptic smoke-cure.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 12/1 Fine Hard Cure Para Rubber.

1922 H. E. Simmons Rubber Manuf. viii. 48/2 This variation in rate of cure or vulcanizing capacity.

1922 H. E. Simmons Rubber Manuf. viii. 98/1 There are two general methods of vulcanization, namely, what is known as the ‘cold cure’ and the ‘hot cure vulcanization’.

1923 B. D. W. Luff Chem. Rubber 19 In works practice, and indeed in technical literature, the term ‘cure’ is frequently employed instead of ‘vulcanisation’. While this has the merit of brevity, it is unfortunately used also to denote the ‘smoking’ of wild or cultivated rubber in the course of its preparation.

1923 B. D. W. Luff Chem. Rubber 136 Hydrochloric acid gives a rubber having a slower rate of cure.

1923 B. D. W. Luff Chem. Rubber 137 The effect of alum in retarding the cure of the rubber.

1943 H. R. Simonds & C. Ellis Handbk. Plastics iii. 136 The state of cure of a laminated material can be determined with some degree of success by a water-absorption test.

1947 R. L. Wakeman Chem. Commercial Plastics xxvi. 786 Where concentrations of catalyst in the order of 1 per cent are used, heating to 175–260 °F effects cure after several hours.

1961 L. R. Mernagh in W. J. S. Naunton Appl. Sci. Rubber xii. 1062 Hot-air cures may be divided into open-air cures at atmospheric pressure and oven cures.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 323 The Frere..hyed faste To a lord for a lettre, leue to haue to curen, As a curatour he were.

c1400 Rom. Rose 6845 I walke soules for to cure.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 314 Sithence this Bishop is carefull and diligent in curyng his owne charge.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. v. 67 Þey [sc. aungels] buþ iclepid leches and phesicians, for þey cureþ and heleþ soules.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 94 For & he [the cankre] be curid, þat is to seie kutt or I-brent, þei perischen þe sunnere.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 504 Je cure is I cure or helpe as a surgyen dothe.

1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §102 B If..the said H. shal..refuse any longer to be dressed or cured by y^e said F. of the said infirmitie.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. ii. 47 One desperate griefe cures with anothers languish. View more context for this quotation

a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. xv. 179 Saldagne's wounds were in the fair way of curing.

1791 E. Gibbon Let. 9 Nov. (1956) III. 236 I must either cure or die.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 292 We had gotten as much Land cur'd and trim'd up, as we sowed 22 Bushels of Barley on.

1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 198 I had a large Quantity of Land Cur'd, that is, freed from timber.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 22 Aug. 2/1 Those who have come up to ‘cure’ at Davos.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 9 June 10/1 They ‘cured’ together on the balcony, and rowed together on the lake.

1918 G. A. Hool & N. C. Johnson Concrete Engineers' Handbk. ii. 156 Where products are cured in this way, it is necessary that racks or cars be used.

1918 G. A. Hool & N. C. Johnson Concrete Engineers' Handbk. ii. 158 The curing rooms usually open into the molding department as conveniently as possible to the machines supplying the greatest number of products to be cured.

1921 W. K. Hatt & W. Voss Concrete Work II. 175 Demonstrate the relative strength of concrete when cured in the hot sun, in dry air, and in wet sand.

1921 W. K. Hatt & W. Voss Concrete Work II. 179 The stone must be cured under a wet cloth.

1953 Archit. Rev. 113 85 If these connections are grouted, the whole erection is held up while this is being poured and cured.

1970 Fremdsprachen 44 We took great care in curing the concrete, believing that by preventing escape of water from the slab, drying shrinkage would be very small.