recure

Probably partly from Latin recūrāre, and partly from a reduced form of recover.

recure (third-person singular simple present recures, present participle recuring, simple past and past participle recured)

1. (obsolete) To cure, heal.
   • Lydgate

     No medicine might avail his sickness to recure.

2. (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.

3. (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 […]

4. To arrive at; to reach; to attain.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Lydgate to this entry?)

recure (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery
   • Fairfax

     But whom he hite, without recure he dies.