Verb

(recur)

(obsolete) To cure, heal.

* Lydgate

No medicine might avail his sickness to recure .

(obsolete) To restore (something) to a good condition.

*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.v:

*:Phoebus pure / In westerne waues his wearie wagon did recure .

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

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:

*:By this he had sweet life recur'd agayne [...].

To arrive at; to reach; to attain.

(Lydgate)

Verb

(en verb)

To occur or take place.

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To occur unexpectedly, by chance or with a low probability.

To encounter by chance.

* 1860 , , The Marble Faun , ch. 30:

Unexpectedly, in a nook close by the farmhouse, he happened upon a spot where the vintage had actually commenced.