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noun

Remedy n. (pl. remedies)

That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; with for; as, a remedy for the gout.

That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; followed by for or against, formerly by to. "What may else be remedy or cure To evils which our own misdeeds have wrought, He will instruct us."

(Law) The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.

Civil remedy. See under Civil.

Remedy of the mint (Coinage), a small allowed deviation from the legal standard of weight and fineness; called also tolerance.

Synonyms: Cure; restorative; counteraction; reparation; redress; relief; aid; help; assistance.

verb

Remedy v. t. (past & past part. remedied; pres. part. remedying) To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract. "I will remedy this gear ere long."

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Etymology of 'Remedy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... such quantities that it was necessary to remove it first, or the hay would be too coarse. On conversing with him, he said that a person came sometimes and took away a trap-load of yarrow; the flowers were to be boiled and mixed with cayenne pepper, as a remedy for cold in the chest. In spring the dandelions here are pulled in sackfuls, to be eaten as salad. These things have fallen so much into disuse in the country that country people are surprised to find the herbalists flourishing round the ...

— Nature Near London • Richard Jefferies

... the King, and remonstrate with him, telling him we must have it otherwise, or we ourselves shall find the remedy. He is young. If we wait on him in a body, all those who come under the name of serf, or are held in bondage, will follow us in the hope of being free. When the King shall see us we shall obtain a favourable answer, or we must then ourselves seek to ...

— The Rise of the Democracy • Joseph Clayton

... have the whole of the southern summer before me; but various circumstances retarded our departure, and amongst others, a passport from the French government, to prevent molestation to the voyage, had not arrived. I took advantage of this delay to remedy an inconvenience, under which we were otherwise likely to suffer. The quantity of provisions necessary to be carried out did not leave room in the holds for more water than fifty tons; but by removing ten of the long guns, and substituting a few light carronades which could be carried ...

— A Voyage to Terra Australis • Matthew Flinders

... only remedy to the mortal injustices, to the endless miseries, to the often incurable passions which disturb the union of the sexes, is the liberty of breaking up conjugal ties and forming them again.' ...

— Modern marriage and how to bear it • Maud Churton Braby

... non-professionals could easily read and understand it. I have often felt the need of such a work; people can understand emergency or accident surgery, military surgery, or reparative surgery, but such a thing as surgery to remedy a seemingly medical disease, or what might be called the preventive practice of surgery, is something they cannot understand. First, and not the least, among the incentives to skepticism on this subject is the unwelcome fact of a surgical operation, ...

— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino

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