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remedy

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈɹɛmədi//

Something that corrects or counteracts.

noun

  1. 1

    Something that corrects or counteracts.

  2. 2

    The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.

  3. 3

    A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.

    Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.

  4. 4

    The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.

Etymology

From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid.

verb

  1. 1

    To provide or serve as a remedy for.

    Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,

Forms

plural
remedies
past tense
remedied
past participle
remedied
present participle
remedying
third person singular
remedies
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