curcuma (ker kuma)

[= It. and F. cur cum a (NL. curcuma ), 1402 Cranmer had declared, in emphatic terms, that God had immediately committed to Christian princes the whole cure of all their subjects, as well concerning the administration of God's word for the cure of souls as concerning the ad ministration of things political. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., i. Specifically-2. Spiritual charge; the employment or office of a curate or parish priest; curacy: as, the cure of souls (see below): ordinarily confined in use to the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. Other men that wer oonly comtemplatiffe and were free from alle cures and prelaci, the i had fulle cherite to God and to hir evyne cristen. Hampole , Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 26. A small cure of fifteen pounds a year was offered me in a distant neighbourhood. Goldsmith , Vicar, iii. 3. The succe ful remedial treatment of a dis zedoary of the shops. The colorle roots of C. angusti ease; the restoration of a sick person to health: folia and C. leucorrhiza furnish a kind of starch sometimes called East Indian arrowroot. The root of C. Ama da (mango-ginger), a native of Bengal, is used in the same way as ginger. C. longa yields turmeric, a mildly aromatic substance, employed medicinally in India, and forming an ingredient in the composition of curry-powder. curcuma-paper (kėr kū-mä-pā"per), stained with a decoction of turmeric acid and used by chemists as a test of free alkali, by the action of which it is stained brown. as, to effect a cure. I cast out devils, and I do cures. Luke xiii. 32. She had done extraordinary cures since she was last in Steele, Tatler, No. 248. 4. A method course of remedial treatment water-cure. town. IMG:content-1829.png:[blocks in formation] curer (kūr'er), n. 1. A physician; one who heals.-2. One who preserves provisions, as beef, fish, and the like, from putrefaction, by means of salt or in any other manner. curettage (kū-ret' ge (ku-ret'āj), n. [