verb
mĕdĭcor
Meaning
- to heal, cure
mĕdĭcor, ātus, 1,
I. v. dep. a. [id.], to heal, cure.
I. Lit. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
(a). With dat.:
senibus medicantur anhelis, Verg. G. 2, 135.—(b). With acc.:
cuspidis ictum, Verg. A. 7, 756.—II. Trop., to cure, relieve (ante-class.):
cum ego possim in hac re medicari mihi, Ter. And. 5, 4, 41: alicui, id. ib. 5, 1, 12: ego istum lepide medicabor metum, Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 40 Weise (Lorenz, medicabo).Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
medicor ātus, ārī, dep.
1 medicus, to heal, cure : senibus anhelis, V.: cuspidis ictum, V.— Fig., to curve, relieve : mihi, T.