remedy
nounverbattested in dialogue
- //ˈɹɛmədi//
Something that corrects or counteracts.
noun
- 1
Something that corrects or counteracts.
- 2
The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
- 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
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
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