Uncured

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not healed or restored to health; not remedied.

  a.  Of wounds, diseases, etc.

1548.  Elyot, Incuratus,… vncured, vnhealed.

1597.  A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 30 b/1. The perforation of the artery tarrieth vncured and open.

1676.  Hobbes, Iliad, 119. Let them imbark at least in haste, and bear Along with them their wounds uncured home.

1819.  Scott, Ivanhoe, xliii. Thy wounds are uncured—Meet not that proud man.

1879.  St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 742. The mother had milk-fever and abscess of breast. This last remained uncured.

  fig.  1598–9.  B. Jonson, Case is Altered, V. iv. I am ashamed That my extreame affection to my sonne Should giue my honour so vncur’d a maine.

1642.  Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., II. xxiv. 152. Thus … the Wounds to the Commonwealth (in the breach of the Laws) are left uncured.

a. 1683.  Owen, Two Disc. Holy Spirit (1693), 74. The uncured Darkness of their Minds.

1793.  Cowper, Stanza for Year, 33. That want, uncur’d…, Speaks him a criminal, assur’d Of everlasting death.

1884.  Sir C. S. C. Bowen, in Law Rep., 12 Q.B.D. 170. The blot in the proceedings of the respondent still remains uncured.

  b.  Of persons. Also fig.

1601.  Sir W. Brown, in Collins, Lett. & Mem. State (1746), II. 228. The hurt Men that lye in the Streets, vncured, for Want of Surgins, make … a noysom Smell.

1674.  R. Godfrey, Inj. & Ab. Physic, 150. Many times … they so uncured through deficiency in Medicine.

1757.  Burke, Abridgm. Eng. Hist., III. iv. Wks. 1812, X. 432. Uncured by his misfortunes of a loose generosity,… he … mortgaged every branch of his revenue.

1825.  Scott, Talism., xiv. We physicians are sworn not to send away a patient uncured.

1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 683. It does not appear that there is any material difference in the percentage of cured and uncured cases.

  2.  Not dressed or prepared for keeping.

1622.  in Foster, Eng. Factories Ind. (1908), II. 103. [4000 pieces of cloth,] most partt uncurd, but ours are all cured.

1770.  Phil. Trans., LX. 304. The certain consequence … will be, that maggots will be generated in such uncured parts [of stuffed birds].

1828.  Spearman, Brit. Gunner (ed. 2), 77. Cartridges, uncured.

1883.  Day, Indian Fish, 3 (Fish. Exhib. Publ.). Inland places having no special facilities for carriage do not receive uncured sea fish in a wholesome condition.

  † 3.  Of land: Not cleared for cultivation. Obs.

1719.  De Foe, Crusoe, I. 37. I purchased as much Land that was uncur’d, as my Money would reach.