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recure

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

2. To recover; to regain; to repossess. When their powers, impaired through labour long, With due repast, they had recured well. (Spenser)

3. To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair. In western waves his weary wagon did recure. (Spenser)

4. To be a cure for; to remedy. No medicine might avail his sickness to recure. (Lydgate)

Origin: Cf. Recover.