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plural remedies
Something that corrects or counteracts. examples
(law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong. examples
A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease. quotations examples
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.
1638, Democritus Junior for Henry Cripps, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298
He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.
1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc. examples
third-person singular simple present remedies, present participle remedying, simple past and past participle remedied
(transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for. quotations examples
Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 27