Curest vs Cursest - What's the difference?
curest | cursest |
(archaic) (cure)
A method, device or medication that restores good health.
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, title= Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Luke xii. 32
A solution to a problem.
* Dryden
* Bishop Hurd
A process of preservation, as by smoking.
A process of solidification or gelling.
(engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
(obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
* Chaucer
* Fuller
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
* (rfdate) Spelman
That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.
To restore to health.
To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
* (William Shakespeare)
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, title= To cause to be rid of (a defect).
To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
To bring about a of any kind.
To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
To solidify or gel.
(obsolete) To become healed.
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
(archaic) (curse)
A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
* Shakespeare
A vulgar epithet.
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, title= (slang) A woman's menses.
(lb) To place a curse upon (a person or object).
*
*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed' the fate which had assigned such a duty, ' cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
*Bible, (w) xxii. 28
*:Thou shalt notcurse the ruler of thy people.
(lb) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
(lb) To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
*Bible, (w) xxi. 74
*:Then began he to curse and to swear.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:His spirits hear me, / And yet I need must curse .
To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:On impious realms and barbarous kings impose / Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those.
In archaic terms the difference between curest and cursest
is that curest is archaic second-person singular of cure while cursest is archaic second-person singular of curse.curest
English
Verb
(head)cure
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
- Past hope! past cure !
- I do cures to-day and to-morrow.
- Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure .
- the proper cure of such prejudices
- Of study took he most cure and most heed.
- vicarages of great cure , but small value
- The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
Derived terms
* anti-cure * cure is worse than the disease * cureless * miscure * sweetcure * take the cure * water cureVerb
(cur)- Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure .
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
- One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
Synonyms
* (restore to good health) healDerived terms
* cure-all * incurable * miscureAnagrams
* ----cursest
English
Verb
(head)curse
English
Noun
(wikipedia curse) (en noun)- The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance.
Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses ", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}
