remedyn.

Brit.

/ˈrɛmᵻdi/, U.S.

/ˈrɛmədi/

Forms: Middle English–1500s remedi, Middle English–1500s remydye, Middle English–1600s remedie, Middle English–1600s remedye, Middle English– remedy, 1500s remeadie, 1500s remeadye, 1500s remidye, 1500s–1600s remeady, 1500s–1600s remedee, 1500s–1600s remidie, 1500s–1600s remidy, 1600s remeddy, 1600s remoudye (transmission error); Scottish pre-1700 ramedy, pre-1700 remeadie, pre-1700 remeddie, pre-1700 remedie, pre-1700 remeidie, pre-1700 remeidy, pre-1700 remidie, pre-1700 remidy, pre-1700 1700s– remedy.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French remedi, remede; Latin remedium.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman remedi, remedie, remedy, remedye, remidie, variants of Anglo-Norman remaide , remeide , Anglo-Norman and Middle French remede , Middle French (rare) remide , remyde (French remède ) means of counteracting a source of misery or difficulty or of relieving a bad situation or avoiding a problem (last quarter of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), medicine (last quarter of the 12th cent.), means of legal redress (end of the 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), admissible deviation from standard weight or alloy in coinage (1379) and its etymon classical Latin remedium means of treating illness or injury, anything used as a cure, means of counteracting, preventing, or avoiding, in post-classical Latin also alleviation of taxes (5th cent.), salvation (6th cent.; from 8th cent. in British sources), admissible deviation from standard weight or alloy in coinage (13th cent.; 1400, 1408 in British sources) < re- re- prefix + med- , stem of medērī to heal (see medic n.¹) + -ium (see -y suffix⁴). Compare later remeid n., and also later remedy v.Compare Old Occitan remezi (first half of the 13th cent.), remeçi (c1300), remedi (14th cent.; Occitan remedi), Catalan remei (14th cent.; showing loss of intervocalic -d-), Spanish remedio (beginning of the 13th cent.), Italian rimedio, †remedio (both second half of the 13th cent.). Compare also Anglo-Norman and Old French (Picardy) remire (first half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), an earlier borrowing of the Latin noun, showing popular phonological development.

1. A means of counteracting a source of misery or difficulty, in early use especially sin, evil, or a vice; a means of relieving a bad situation or avoiding a problem. †Also without article.Partly figurative use of sense 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > remedy

helpc1000

healinga1225

remedy?c1225

bote of beam1330

recurec1330

recoverera1375

remeida1413

redemption?a1439

botmenta1450

recurementc1450

presidy?a1475

mendsa1525

repair1612

relief1616

booty beam1642

beyond retrieve1658

beyond retrieval1697

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 98 Lokeð her aȝeines wreaððe haueð monie remedies frouren amuche floc, & misliche boten.

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 94 We schulen nu speoken of þe uttre [temptation]. & teachen þeo þe habbeð hire hu ha mahen wið godes grace ifinde remedie.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 207 (MED) Holy bene..his remedie aye alle zenne.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 11 (MED) Alisaundre..axede a tool to slee hymself in remedie of sorwe [L. in remedium doloris].

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27816 Again þis sin [sc. sloth] remedi es [a1425 Galba best medcyn is]—Haf gastli ioi and hope o blis.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 3394 Ilk man here lyghtly may Swilk remedys thurgh grace wyn, Þat may fordo al veniel syn.

1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xxiii. 43 Syth it pleseth yow, that I shall dye withoute remedye and withoute mercy.

1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. mv/2 For þ^e remedye of theyr soules themperour gaf..for almesse xij C vnces of syluer.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxix. 3 The rightwis man sekis remedy of god, how there ill lippis may be amendid.

a1500 in Notes & Queries (1977) Dec. 486 (MED) Ihesu..ffor mans gilte and transgression Chef salfe and beste remedy.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccclxxxviij He fleeth to the last remeady, which untill that time he had purposelye reserued.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Sulpicius in Panoplie Epist. 25 Your wisedome and knowledge are remedies available, to cut off the course of suche an infecting canckar.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxxv. 158 Iupiter was honored amongst them for a remedy of stormes and tempests.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 35 The Nobles, when they saw no remedie,..submitted to Curroon.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 186 The human remedies which Sea-men use against Spouts, is to furle all the Sails, and to fire some Guns with shot against the Pipe of the Spout.

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 444 Our griefs how swift! our remedies how slow!

1747 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) V. 93 Such a Defect in the Government as stands in need of the most speedy Remedy.

1774 E. Burke Let. 18 Sept. in Corr. (1961) III. 30 Popular remedies must be quick and sharp or they are very ineffectual.

1781 W. Cowper Truth 273 God replies, ‘The remedy you want I freely give: The book shall teach you’.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 332 Can you show me some clear water spring, The remedy of our thirst?

1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 168 In this respect..we have a remedy against those optical deceptions.

1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. i. 6 It by no means appeared what help or remedy any friend of Sterling's..could attempt in the interim.

a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) II. viii. 582 The only remedy for superstition is knowledge.

1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur iv. xv. 268 In full belief that the evils which afflicted it were political, and to be cured only by the sword, he was going forth to fit himself for a part in the day of resort to the heroic remedy.

1935 O. Sitwell Penny Foolish 122 What remedy is there? Only to increase as much as we can the privacy in our own home, by insisting on every member of a family being perfectly independent...The sole other remedy is to become rich.

1985 A. Downs in P. E. Peterson New Urban Reality iii. 287 What remedies to these rather staggering problems have been proposed by the authors of the essays in this volume?

2005 R. Bruegmann Sprawl xii. 173 [Patrick] Abercrombie saw the crowding of the central city and sprawl at the edge of the metropolis as the twin evils of modern urbanization. His remedy..called for massive clearance and thinning out at the center of London.

2. A cure for a disease, disorder, injury, etc.; a medicine or treatment that promotes healing or alleviates symptoms.In early use also as a mass noun without article.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > a cure or remedy

leechcraftc888

leechdoma900

bootOE

helpc1000

pigment?a1200

remedya1382

medicinea1393

application?a1425

sanativec1440

healer?1523

recovery1576

curative1577

mithridate1587

cure1623

presidy1657

therapeutic1842

therapeutical1845

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Tobit vi. 7 What remedie shuln han these thingus, that of the fish thou hast comaundid to be kept?

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 56^v Ȝiff þes members fallen in to a peralisie, þe remedies owen to be leide aboute þe spondiles off þe necke.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope x [He] mynistyred alwey his pylles to euery man that came to hym for ony remedy.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xv. 3 He that felis him seke, he sekis remedy.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xcj For verely tyme it selfe wyl at laste bring remedy also, vnto moste daungerous diseases.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 67^v Nature hath appoynted remedyes in a redynesse for al diseases.

1603 (title) Present remedies against plague. Shewing sundrye preseruatiues for the same, by wholsome fumes, drinkes, vomits and other inward receits.

1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours i. 42 For remedies doe cure without a physician, but not a physician without remedies.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 117 This remedy the Scythian Shepherds found.

1714 J. Purcell Treat. Cholick 181 The only Remedy is to lay the Bone open.

1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 399 A cataplasm..applied to the wounded part, is the general remedy for venomous Bites.

1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. (1831) v. 140 The Scottish law did not acquit those who accomplished..remarkable cures by mysterious remedies.

1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (ed. 2) 644 Whenever it is desired to give a powerful remedy in increasing doses until its physiological effect is produced, it should always be given by itself.

1911 W. S. Churchill Let. 5 July in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) iii. 52 I have got a vile cold in the head wh makes me thoroughly uncomfortable, & so far remedies have proved very inefficacious.

1968 News (Frederick, Maryland) 24 Oct. c6/8 A quassia cup..was an old-fashioned remedy that people had for everything from rheumatism through brain fever.

2007 New Scientist 3 Feb. 48/1 The main active ingredient in many cough remedies is dextromethorphan.

3. A means of legal redress.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > claim at law > [noun] > legal redress

remedyc1405

relief1616

restitutio in integrum1676

comeback1907

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Hengwrt) (2003) §488 Syn ye desire..vengeance..after the lawe..thanne haue ye noon oother remedie but for to haue youre recours vn to the souereyn Iuge.

1423 Petition in Fenland Notes & Queries (1907–9) 7 307 (MED) Besechys mekely the pore tenauntry..to consider the grete grevaunce and myschief that thei stonde in, as it apperes in a Cedule here to annexit, and for the said tenaunts and lordschip there provei for remedie en salvacion of the said lordschip and tenaunts.

1450 J. Fastolf in Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 113 I pray you requyre hym on my lord ys behalf to compleyn to justice..for [a] remedie.

a1483 in Archaeologia (1887) 50 52 (MED) If any man or woman contrarye and will not pay ther dewty, to informe the Curate and the Chirch wardens, and they shal sette remedy, with grace of God.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. C2 To go to lawe, and spende all that euer he hath, and yet come by no remedie neither.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 118 Left to the remedie, which the Law of the place alloweth them.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 199 Even this right of property will fail, or at least it will be without a remedy, unless I pursue it within the space of sixty years.

1819 J. Marshall Writings upon Federal Constit. (1839) 154 Without impairing the obligation of a contract, the remedy may certainly be modified.

1854 J. Bouvier Inst. Amer. Law III. iv. 76 The remedy at law must be plain, for, if it be doubtful and obscure at law, equity will assert a jurisdiction.

1891 19th Cent. Dec. 857 Where injury to character takes the form of aspersion, the primary remedy is in a court of law.

1921 M. E. Stone Fifty Years Journalist vii. 355 To me it seemed all wrong, and I began an investigation to see if there was no legal remedy.

1970 T. J. Vondráček in D. D. Barry Governmental Tort Liability 175 This type of remedy or appeal is not used in civil or administrative procedure.

2002 A. J. Boyle Minority Shareholders' Remedies iii. 60 In 1997, the Law Commission completed its task of reviewing and reforming the law on shareholders' remedies.

4. Coining. The small margin within which coins as minted are allowed to vary from the standard fineness and weight. Cf. remeid n. 2. Also called tolerance. Also attributive, as remedy allowance.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > trial of purity or weight > permitted amount of deviation

remedy1423

remeid1532

shere1566

toleration1887

1423–4 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1423 §54. m. 30 As touching þe remedie of .vi. d. of the pound of troie, the kyng will be avised.

1464 in Statutes Parl. Ireland (1914) III. 114 (MED) Forasmuche as the said moneis of silver may not continually be made according to his right estandert..the said moneis of silver may be made to muche or to litell in pois or in alay or in the one or in the othir by vj penyweight in euery of the said poundes of Troy, whiche vj penyweight shall be called remedy for the said Maister.

1538 in R. K. Hannay Acts Lords of Council Public Affairs (1932) 473 Ane allayit penny of thre penny fyne, havand and saifand twa granis to the remedy.

1632 in L. B. Taylor Aberdeen Council Lett. (1942) I. 355 With the ordinar remedies of..3 four pennie peices.

1675 R. Vaughan Disc. Coin & Coinage iv. 24 The remedies do make so small a difference that it is not considerable.

1745 M. Folkes Table Eng. Silver Coins 63/1 It appears that the said deficiency, being about 157^th part of the whole, was less than the remedy that has constantly been allowed to the masters and workers of the mint.

1805 Earl of Liverpool Treat. Coins Realm 102 They authorised a large remedy to be taken..and did not require the Officers of the Mint to make their coins as perfect as possible, but authorised or suffered them to coin just within the remedy.

1867 Chambers's Jrnl. 16 Feb. 106/2 For silver coin, the ‘remedy’ or margin of error is fixed at one pennyweight per pound Troy.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1916/1 The remedy on United States silver coin is 1½ grains to the piece.

a1918 M. Rollins Money & Investm. (1928) 335 Remedy Allowance. This is a variation allowed to the English mint from the specified standard of weight and fineness... In America, we call this legal variation..the ‘Remedy of the Mint’.

1920 Act 10 Geo. V c. 3 §1(1) As though for the figure ‘4’ in the column relating to the remedy allowance in respect of millesimal fineness there were substituted the figure ‘5’.

2000 A. M. Stahl Zecca ii. x. 228 The final tolerance was set at about 4.0 percent above or below the standard, a remedy five times that originally proposed.

5. At certain English schools (latterly only Winchester and St Paul's): a time specially granted for recreation; a day's or half-day's holiday. †Also without article.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > [noun] > time off

remedyc1450

intermission?1566

vacancy1599

by-time1609

off-duty1844

watch below, off1850

stand easy1859

off time1866

time off1881

lay-off1889

make and mend1899

laze-off1924

R and R1952

downtime1971

me time1980

c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 307 (MED) In companye scolers on a tyme had remedy & went to play þaim.

1518 J. Colet Stat. Paulinae Scholae in J. H. Lupton Life Colet (1887) 278 I will also they shall haue noo remedies yff the Maister grauntith eny remedies, he shall forfett xls... Except the kyng or a archebisshopp or a bisshopp..desyre it.

1580 in Boys Hist. Sandwich (1792) 228 I ordeine, that the master..shall not give remedie or leave to plaie aboue once in a week.

c1593 in J. Raine Descr. Anc. Monuments Church of Durham (1842) 75 To recreat themselves when they had remedy of there master.

1656 in Gardiner Regist. St. Paul's School (1884) 382 (note) [At Newport..it was provided that] each Thursday afternoon..shall be a remedy or time of recreation.

1818 N. Carlisle Descr. Endowed Gram. Schools Eng. & Wales II. 465 Some other terms are still used at Winchester School in their ancient signification; thus, a Play-day, is called a Remedy: a term which is also used in the Statutes of St. Paul's School, and some others.

1860 R. B. Mansfield School Life Winchester Coll. (1870) 49 Remedies were not a matter of right, but were always applied for..on Tuesday or Thursday.

1893 Church Times 22 Dec. 1331/2 His lordship afterwards (the Pauline reports)..exercised his privilege of desiring a ‘remedy’ (or half-holiday) on Wednesday.

1990 A. H. Mead Miraculous Draught of Fishes vi. 66 At the end of the ceremony, the Prince asked for a remedy, and was refused: only a reigning sovereign or a bishop, present in the school, might do so, according to the Statutes.

Phrases

P1.

†a. by remedy of: by the help of, by means of. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > by the instrumentality of [phrase]

in virtue ofa1250

by (also with) strength of1340

by the virtue ofa1375

by way ofa1393

by (also through) (the) means (also mean) ofa1398

by remedy ofa1398

by force of1411

by feat of1489

by (occasionally through) the benefit ofa1538

in the way of1622

by the way of1623

by (the) dint of1664

by the force of1697

perforce of1714

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 224 Þe fyge tree is made bere wel fruyte by remedy of a tre þat hatte caput ficus.

1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 39 If women be not peruerse they shall reape profite, by remedye of pleasure.

†b. no remedy but: no way out other than, no alternative but. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > necessity > necessity [phrase]

none other boota1225

needs must that needs shallc1330

no remedy buta1470

needs must when the Devil drivesc1500

what remedy?1511

there is no help for it1581

(there is) nothing for it but1845

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 358 With a swerd he sholde lese his heed Ther nas noon oother remedye ne reed.]

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 173 Is there no remedy..but that I must have ado with you?

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. 72 Ther is no remedy but to fight, & to abyde fortune.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 293 There was no remedy but he must fight with him.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 20 There had beene no remedy, but he must have dyed upon his owne sword.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 311 We had no Remedy, but to wait and see what the Issue of Things might present.

1807 C. Simeon Helps to Composition IV. 350 We may as well attempt to create an universe as to atone for sin, or to fulfil the strict commands of God's law—There is no remedy but that proposed, of looking unto Jesus.

†c. what remedy?: what is the solution, what can be done? Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > necessity > necessity [phrase]

none other boota1225

needs must that needs shallc1330

no remedy buta1470

needs must when the Devil drivesc1500

what remedy?1511

there is no help for it1581

(there is) nothing for it but1845

1511 H. Watson tr. St. Bernardino Chirche of Euyll Men & Women sig. E.iii^v What remedy, what is to be done, wyll not my lordes of the chirche and gouernours of the comon welfare do for the loue of theyr god, lorde, and iuge souerayne, and for the welthe and prosperyte spyrytuell and corporel of theyr subgectes as they are straytly bounden.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 143 The lord sumtym rewaird will it. Gif he dois not, quhat remedy?

1600 R. Armin Foole vpon Foole sig. C1^v Now you must be hanged quoth the King... What remedy sayes hee.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 228 Well, what remedy?..what cannot be eschew'd, must be embrac'd.

1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xv. sig. D3 He sayes it must not bee so, [y]it is strait pacified, and cryes what remedie.

1694 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: Pt. 2nd i. i. 3 Well then, what remedy?—why thus Brother—if your Master can fancy Princesses, where none ere were..'twill be as easie for you to take the next Comer Sancho—and perswade him to believe 'tis the radiant Dulcinea.

†d. no remedy: (as adverbial phrase) unavoidably, inevitably. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > necessity > [adverb] > inevitably

uneschewablyc1374

without defencec1430

inevitably1447

unscapablyc1449

necessarlya1500

no remedy1531

unavoidably1608

indeclinably1624

unevitably1624

unpreventablya1639

need1641

unfrustrably1654

ineluctably1655

inavoidably1674

unhinderably1678

resistlessly1725

inevadibly1842

infrustrably1861

undivertibly1866

inescapably1881

unescapably1882

deterministically1885

indissuadablya1894

ineludibly1893

1531 tr. E. Fox et al. Determinations Moste Famous Vniuersities f. 53^v Wherfore no remedi thou must go from this intent and purpose, whiche & if thou mightest atteyne, yet shuld it neuer increace thy familie or linage.

?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iv. sig. Eviij Yet must it geue place, to Gods worde, no remedye.

1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Bi The vengeaunce of God muste fall no remedye, Upon these wicked men.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 118 You must send her your Page, no remedie .

a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) x. 706 In default of this (no remedie) the common hammer must come.

P2. Proverbs.

a. there is a remedy for everything but death and variants.

ΚΠ

1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Garden of Pleasure 99 There is a remedie for all things, sauing for death.

1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote xliii. 281 Theres a remedy for euery thing but death.

1759 tr. C. G. Tessin Lett. from Old Man I. 125 But there is a remedy for every thing, except death.

1896 F. Locker-Lampson My Confidences 95 There is a remedy for everything except Death,..so the bitterness of this disappointment has long passed away.

1912 O. W. Gillpatrick Man who likes Mexico viii. 217 A Spanish philosopher has said, ‘There is a remedy for everything but death!’

2008 F. Black Moving On i. 67 There's a remedy for everything but death.

b. the remedy is worse than the disease and variants.

ΚΠ

1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xiv. 97 It is a strange point of physik, when the remedie it self is more dangerous then the disease.]

1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 63 For which inconveniences, the doctrine of Italy..hath introduced Cabanet councels, a remedy worse then the disease.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xvi. 312 Withdraw thy Action, and depart in Peace; The Remedy is worse than the Disease.

1734 tr. C. Rollin Method teaching & studying Belles Lettres IV. 310 We may then come to correction, but not make it too common and habitual; for then the remedy is worse than the disease.

1794 C. Plowden Remarks Mem. G. Panzani 112 The indiscretions of others proved the remedy to be almost as dangerous as the disease.

1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. ix. xxi. 151 It has also the property of spirits of wine, to take out greasy spots in silks or woollens; but the remedy is worse than the disease, for it leaves an abominable odour.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Yankee in Canada (1866) 133 They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil.

1904 Collier's 7 May 20/1 (advt.) I know you want to reduce your weight, but probably you think it impossible or are afraid the remedy is worse than the disease.

1939 ‘F. O'Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 144 Such practices are murder, and those that are so unhappy as to come under such Circumstances if they use the forementioned means, will certainly one day find the remedy worse than the Disease.

2005 A. Ichijo & G. Uzelac When is Nation? i. 121 Affirmative action has been an attempt to remedy this racism, but the remedy is worse than the disease.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

remedyv.

Brit.

/ˈrɛmᵻdi/, U.S.

/ˈrɛmədi/

Forms: late Middle English–1500s remedie, late Middle English–1500s remedye, late Middle English– remedy, 1500s ramedy (Scottish), 1500s reamedye, 1500s remeady, 1500s remydy, 1500s–1600s remidie, 1600s remedee (Scottish), 1600s remidy.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: remedy n.; French remedier; Latin remediāre.

Etymology: Partly < remedy n., and partly < Anglo-Norman and Middle French remedier (1281 in Old French; in Anglo-Norman also occasionally as remeder ; French remédier ) and its etymon classical Latin remediāre (in post-classical Latin also remediari (4th cent.)) to treat, to cure < remedium remedy n. Compare Old Occitan remediar (14th cent.), Catalan remeiar (c1400), Spanish remediar (first half of the 13th cent.), Portuguese remediar (1436), Italian rimediare (second half of the 13th cent. as †remediare ). Compare earlier remedy n. and later remed v., remeid v.

†1. transitive. To grant a legal remedy to (a person), provide redress to. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > put right [verb (transitive)] > put right (a wrong or loss) > put right a wrong against (a person)

rightOE

amendc1300

remedy1414

redressc1450

repaira1578

disendamage1655

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > judge or determine judicially [verb (transitive)] > grant legal remedy to

remedy1414

1414 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) IV. 57/1 Byfore hene of the persones that weren and ben Commissioners upon myn enditement..I myghte not have been remedied.

1414 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) IV. 57/1 To have ben remedied of the wronges that we have had.

1454 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 120 That they shuld be remedyed, and he remedyed them not.

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 3402 (MED) They..levith verryly That it were impossibill ȝewe to remedy.

1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 3rd Serm. sig. Hii Ther is one [Judge]..wyll remedye you, if you come after a ryght sorte vnto him.

a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Angl. (1671) i. 113 Of which Indignity he complained to the Duke,..and was remedied in it.

1746 ‘Philopolis’ Addr. Citizens Edinb. 23 If their Work should not please them, and such Work as the Employer is not a proper Judge of, he can easily be remedied, if he has Ground to think he is imposed upon.

2. transitive. To put right, reform (a state of things); to rectify, make good. Partly figurative use of sense 3a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > put right [verb (transitive)]

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correctc1374

menda1375

recovera1398

dighta1400

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remediate1837

right-side1847

sort1948

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 1461 Þer is a lawe set Be enchauntement þat may nat be let Nor remedied.

1469 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 406 Wyth Goddys grace it schall be remedyed well j-now.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xviii. 81 I thanke you for your loue,..But I your cause can nothynge remedy.

1605 M. Drayton Poems sig. Hh8 They..Take armes at once to remedy their wrong.

1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 23 The House of Lords shall remedy all offences contrary to the Law of Magna Charta.

1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. I. i. 49 They cannot remedy the Corruption that has spread thro' the Race of Mankind.

1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man iii. 33 That shall be remedied without delay.

1814 R. Southey Roderick xxi. 417 Repentance taketh sin away, Death remedies the rest.

1853 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 127 1179 A great deal [has] been done to remedy the deficiency.

1893 W. Z. Ripley Financial Hist. Virginia ii. 52 This was remedied by an official inspection of all tobacco which was brought to market.

1933 J. B. S. Haldane Sci. & Human Life 108 If a difference in effective fertility exists between the rich and the poor, it seems to me profoundly illogical to attempt to remedy it by making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

1977 M. Helprin Refiner's Fire ii. vi. 62 Numbers did not make sense to him... If the head of the primary school sat him down to try and remedy his numeral ignorance, Marshall could not concentrate.

2002 S. Angley et al. Landscape Estimating & Contract Admin. ix. 95 The owner usually holds back part of the payments on the contract price until defects are remedied.

a. transitive. To cure or alleviate (a disease, symptom, etc.). Also in figurative contexts.

ΚΠ

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 94 (MED) Bot if þat it be sone remedied, i. soccoured, to þe akyng [L. occurratur dolori] of þe emoroidez..þai ar sone apostemed.]

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 2758 Al hir sorowe was holp and remedyed.

c1450 Practica Phisicalia John of Burgundy in H. Schöffler Mittelengl. Medizinlit. (1919) 210 (MED) Quinfoyle..schall remedy þe peyn off the wombe.

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 37 It being wrought and tempered..remedieth all kinde of swelling.

1585 Disc. Med. called Mithradatium sig. D.4 Mithridatium remedyeth diseases of the minde.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §730 Lassitude is remedied by bathing or anointing with oil and warm water.

1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. ii. 7 A sharp fit of a feverish distemper, which a little time..will infallibly remedy.

1717 H. Banyer tr. J. van Horne Micro-techne 85 It is not difficult to remedy this defect [sc. hare-lip], if you can bring the divided Parts to a mutual Contact.

1754–64 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery I. 428 Tongue-tying is easily remedied by introducing the forefinger into the child's mouth, raising up the tongue, and snipping the bridle with a pair of Scissars.

1795 B. Moseley Treat. Trop. Dis. (ed. 3) 353 When a relapse happens after several days, it is remedied by careful regimen, and a dram dose of rhubarb.

1852 Ohio Cultivator 8 226/1 The results of all attempts to remedy the disease having been unsatisfactory, M. Prange proposes to bury the Vines.

1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 691/2 Other deformities, such as knock-knee or genu valgum and bow-leg or genu varum, have been remedied by operation.

1910 H. V. Knaggs Indigestion ii. 79 The Müller ‘My System’ exercises are probably the best devised for remedying constipation and indigestion.

1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xiv. 323 The condition is remedied by feeding during the deficiency period a ‘lick’ of hydrolized wool.

2003 Self Def. for Women Fall 29 (caption) Garlic is a great source of..a form of sulfur shown to be effective in remedying seasonal allergies.

†b. transitive. To heal or cure (a person, animal, part of the body, etc.). Also in figurative context. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > heal or cure [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person or part

wholeeOE

healc1000

betterOE

i-sundienc1175

salvea1225

botenc1225

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warishc1250

recurea1382

curec1384

mendc1390

remedya1470

cheerc1540

loosea1637

to pull through1816

rehab1973

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1002 There happened on her a malodye..And no leche cowde remedye her.

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. iv. sig. e.ii ^v The synner..is from the moost gretest payne remedyed.

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Hiij^v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens When the party y^t shuld be holpen & remydyed is hyd in the dypenes of the body.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. v. sig. Gg5 Into the woods..shee went, To seeke for hearbes, that mote him remedy.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 347 If one Horsse do die of it, al his fellowes that beare him company will follow after, if they bee not remedied in time.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc i. 57 Some pious sisterhood, Who..may likeliest remedy The stricken mind.

†4. intransitive. To provide a remedy. Also with for, of. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > effect a cure [verb (intransitive)]

healc1000

remedy1477

cure1787

the world > action or operation > amending > provide a remedy [verb (intransitive)]

remedy1477

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 55 Ye [be] seke of the maladye of loue wherof no man may remedye but youre lady.

a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 387 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 555 For ache of bonys & also for brosour, It remedieth & dooth ese ful blyve.

1586 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Quarto MS (1920) 261/46 Ȝour constancie May remedie.

Derivatives

ˈremedying n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > [noun]

rightingOE

mendmentc1300

amendment1340

correction1340

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mendinga1400

rectificationa1400

mendnessa1425

redress1448

addressment1481

redressa1529

remedying1547

redub1549

restauration1560

correcting1580

rightening1583

emendation1586

restitution1636

cure1675

reform1700

readjustment1749

remediation1794

redressal1800

redressment1822

1547 C. Langton Very Brefe Treat. Phisick sig. B.i^v Hippocrates wrot thre great bokes of the remediyinge of all feruent diseases.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1221/1 For the remediying and redressyng of those foresayd iniuries.

1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. iii. 18 For the remedying of such abuses the Ancients did appoint divers officers.

1745 W. Whiston Sacred Hist. I. iv. 354 All this on his return to Sardes he represented unto the King, who being thereby made fully sensible of the Error he had committed, for the remedying of it sent a Messenger to Myrcinus.

1805 T. Douglas Observ. Present State Highlands Scotl. App. G p.xxviii In remedying of this inconvenience, the king's wisdom was admirable, and the parliament's at that time.

1898 B. T. Tilton tr. H. Tillmanns Text-bk. Surg. II. iv. 230 By cheiloplasty is understood the remedying of defects upon the lips by plastic operation.

1941 J. Huxley Democracy Marches iii. 32 People were free to criticize and free to found private organizations for the relief of distress or the remedying of abuses.

2003 A. Buchanan in A. Buchanan & M. Moore States,Nations, & Borders xii. 248 Secession can be viewed as the remedying of an injustice.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	remedy
释义	remedyn. Brit. /ˈrɛmᵻdi/, U.S. /ˈrɛmədi/ Forms: Middle English–1500s remedi, Middle English–1500s remydye, Middle English–1600s remedie, Middle English–1600s remedye, Middle English– remedy, 1500s remeadie, 1500s remeadye, 1500s remidye, 1500s–1600s remeady, 1500s–1600s remedee, 1500s–1600s remidie, 1500s–1600s remidy, 1600s remeddy, 1600s remoudye (transmission error); Scottish pre-1700 ramedy, pre-1700 remeadie, pre-1700 remeddie, pre-1700 remedie, pre-1700 remeidie, pre-1700 remeidy, pre-1700 remidie, pre-1700 remidy, pre-1700 1700s– remedy. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French remedi, remede; Latin remedium. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman remedi, remedie, remedy, remedye, remidie, variants of Anglo-Norman remaide , remeide , Anglo-Norman and Middle French remede , Middle French (rare) remide , remyde (French remède ) means of counteracting a source of misery or difficulty or of relieving a bad situation or avoiding a problem (last quarter of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), medicine (last quarter of the 12th cent.), means of legal redress (end of the 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), admissible deviation from standard weight or alloy in coinage (1379) and its etymon classical Latin remedium means of treating illness or injury, anything used as a cure, means of counteracting, preventing, or avoiding, in post-classical Latin also alleviation of taxes (5th cent.), salvation (6th cent.; from 8th cent. in British sources), admissible deviation from standard weight or alloy in coinage (13th cent.; 1400, 1408 in British sources) < re- re- prefix + med- , stem of medērī to heal (see medic n.¹) + -ium (see -y suffix⁴). Compare later remeid n., and also later remedy v.Compare Old Occitan remezi (first half of the 13th cent.), remeçi (c1300), remedi (14th cent.; Occitan remedi), Catalan remei (14th cent.; showing loss of intervocalic -d-), Spanish remedio (beginning of the 13th cent.), Italian rimedio, †remedio (both second half of the 13th cent.). Compare also Anglo-Norman and Old French (Picardy) remire (first half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), an earlier borrowing of the Latin noun, showing popular phonological development. 1. A means of counteracting a source of misery or difficulty, in early use especially sin, evil, or a vice; a means of relieving a bad situation or avoiding a problem. †Also without article.Partly figurative use of sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > remedy helpc1000 healinga1225 remedy?c1225 bote of beam1330 recurec1330 recoverera1375 remeida1413 redemption?a1439 botmenta1450 recurementc1450 presidy?a1475 mendsa1525 repair1612 relief1616 booty beam1642 beyond retrieve1658 beyond retrieval1697 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 98 Lokeð her aȝeines wreaððe haueð monie remedies frouren amuche floc, & misliche boten. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 94 We schulen nu speoken of þe uttre [temptation]. & teachen þeo þe habbeð hire hu ha mahen wið godes grace ifinde remedie. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 207 (MED) Holy bene..his remedie aye alle zenne. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 11 (MED) Alisaundre..axede a tool to slee hymself in remedie of sorwe [L. in remedium doloris]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27816 Again þis sin [sc. sloth] remedi es [a1425 Galba best medcyn is]—Haf gastli ioi and hope o blis. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 3394 Ilk man here lyghtly may Swilk remedys thurgh grace wyn, Þat may fordo al veniel syn. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xxiii. 43 Syth it pleseth yow, that I shall dye withoute remedye and withoute mercy. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. mv/2 For þ^e remedye of theyr soules themperour gaf..for almesse xij C vnces of syluer. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxix. 3 The rightwis man sekis remedy of god, how there ill lippis may be amendid. a1500 in Notes & Queries (1977) Dec. 486 (MED) Ihesu..ffor mans gilte and transgression Chef salfe and beste remedy. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccclxxxviij He fleeth to the last remeady, which untill that time he had purposelye reserued. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Sulpicius in Panoplie Epist. 25 Your wisedome and knowledge are remedies available, to cut off the course of suche an infecting canckar. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxxv. 158 Iupiter was honored amongst them for a remedy of stormes and tempests. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 35 The Nobles, when they saw no remedie,..submitted to Curroon. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 186 The human remedies which Sea-men use against Spouts, is to furle all the Sails, and to fire some Guns with shot against the Pipe of the Spout. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 444 Our griefs how swift! our remedies how slow! 1747 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) V. 93 Such a Defect in the Government as stands in need of the most speedy Remedy. 1774 E. Burke Let. 18 Sept. in Corr. (1961) III. 30 Popular remedies must be quick and sharp or they are very ineffectual. 1781 W. Cowper Truth 273 God replies, ‘The remedy you want I freely give: The book shall teach you’. a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 332 Can you show me some clear water spring, The remedy of our thirst? 1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 168 In this respect..we have a remedy against those optical deceptions. 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. i. 6 It by no means appeared what help or remedy any friend of Sterling's..could attempt in the interim. a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) II. viii. 582 The only remedy for superstition is knowledge. 1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur iv. xv. 268 In full belief that the evils which afflicted it were political, and to be cured only by the sword, he was going forth to fit himself for a part in the day of resort to the heroic remedy. 1935 O. Sitwell Penny Foolish 122 What remedy is there? Only to increase as much as we can the privacy in our own home, by insisting on every member of a family being perfectly independent...The sole other remedy is to become rich. 1985 A. Downs in P. E. Peterson New Urban Reality iii. 287 What remedies to these rather staggering problems have been proposed by the authors of the essays in this volume? 2005 R. Bruegmann Sprawl xii. 173 [Patrick] Abercrombie saw the crowding of the central city and sprawl at the edge of the metropolis as the twin evils of modern urbanization. His remedy..called for massive clearance and thinning out at the center of London. 2. A cure for a disease, disorder, injury, etc.; a medicine or treatment that promotes healing or alleviates symptoms.In early use also as a mass noun without article. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > a cure or remedy leechcraftc888 leechdoma900 bootOE helpc1000 pigment?a1200 remedya1382 medicinea1393 application?a1425 sanativec1440 healer?1523 recovery1576 curative1577 mithridate1587 cure1623 presidy1657 therapeutic1842 therapeutical1845 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Tobit vi. 7 What remedie shuln han these thingus, that of the fish thou hast comaundid to be kept? ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 56^v Ȝiff þes members fallen in to a peralisie, þe remedies owen to be leide aboute þe spondiles off þe necke. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope x [He] mynistyred alwey his pylles to euery man that came to hym for ony remedy. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xv. 3 He that felis him seke, he sekis remedy. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xcj For verely tyme it selfe wyl at laste bring remedy also, vnto moste daungerous diseases. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 67^v Nature hath appoynted remedyes in a redynesse for al diseases. 1603 (title) Present remedies against plague. Shewing sundrye preseruatiues for the same, by wholsome fumes, drinkes, vomits and other inward receits. 1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours i. 42 For remedies doe cure without a physician, but not a physician without remedies. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 117 This remedy the Scythian Shepherds found. View more context for this quotation 1714 J. Purcell Treat. Cholick 181 The only Remedy is to lay the Bone open. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 399 A cataplasm..applied to the wounded part, is the general remedy for venomous Bites. 1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. (1831) v. 140 The Scottish law did not acquit those who accomplished..remarkable cures by mysterious remedies. 1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (ed. 2) 644 Whenever it is desired to give a powerful remedy in increasing doses until its physiological effect is produced, it should always be given by itself. 1911 W. S. Churchill Let. 5 July in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) iii. 52 I have got a vile cold in the head wh makes me thoroughly uncomfortable, & so far remedies have proved very inefficacious. 1968 News (Frederick, Maryland) 24 Oct. c6/8 A quassia cup..was an old-fashioned remedy that people had for everything from rheumatism through brain fever. 2007 New Scientist 3 Feb. 48/1 The main active ingredient in many cough remedies is dextromethorphan. 3. A means of legal redress. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > claim at law > [noun] > legal redress remedyc1405 relief1616 restitutio in integrum1676 comeback1907 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Hengwrt) (2003) §488 Syn ye desire..vengeance..after the lawe..thanne haue ye noon oother remedie but for to haue youre recours vn to the souereyn Iuge. 1423 Petition in Fenland Notes & Queries (1907–9) 7 307 (MED) Besechys mekely the pore tenauntry..to consider the grete grevaunce and myschief that thei stonde in, as it apperes in a Cedule here to annexit, and for the said tenaunts and lordschip there provei for remedie en salvacion of the said lordschip and tenaunts. 1450 J. Fastolf in Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 113 I pray you requyre hym on my lord ys behalf to compleyn to justice..for [a] remedie. a1483 in Archaeologia (1887) 50 52 (MED) If any man or woman contrarye and will not pay ther dewty, to informe the Curate and the Chirch wardens, and they shal sette remedy, with grace of God. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. C2 To go to lawe, and spende all that euer he hath, and yet come by no remedie neither. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 118 Left to the remedie, which the Law of the place alloweth them. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 199 Even this right of property will fail, or at least it will be without a remedy, unless I pursue it within the space of sixty years. 1819 J. Marshall Writings upon Federal Constit. (1839) 154 Without impairing the obligation of a contract, the remedy may certainly be modified. 1854 J. Bouvier Inst. Amer. Law III. iv. 76 The remedy at law must be plain, for, if it be doubtful and obscure at law, equity will assert a jurisdiction. 1891 19th Cent. Dec. 857 Where injury to character takes the form of aspersion, the primary remedy is in a court of law. 1921 M. E. Stone Fifty Years Journalist vii. 355 To me it seemed all wrong, and I began an investigation to see if there was no legal remedy. 1970 T. J. Vondráček in D. D. Barry Governmental Tort Liability 175 This type of remedy or appeal is not used in civil or administrative procedure. 2002 A. J. Boyle Minority Shareholders' Remedies iii. 60 In 1997, the Law Commission completed its task of reviewing and reforming the law on shareholders' remedies. 4. Coining. The small margin within which coins as minted are allowed to vary from the standard fineness and weight. Cf. remeid n. 2. Also called tolerance. Also attributive, as remedy allowance. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > trial of purity or weight > permitted amount of deviation remedy1423 remeid1532 shere1566 toleration1887 1423–4 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1423 §54. m. 30 As touching þe remedie of .vi. d. of the pound of troie, the kyng will be avised. 1464 in Statutes Parl. Ireland (1914) III. 114 (MED) Forasmuche as the said moneis of silver may not continually be made according to his right estandert..the said moneis of silver may be made to muche or to litell in pois or in alay or in the one or in the othir by vj penyweight in euery of the said poundes of Troy, whiche vj penyweight shall be called remedy for the said Maister. 1538 in R. K. Hannay Acts Lords of Council Public Affairs (1932) 473 Ane allayit penny of thre penny fyne, havand and saifand twa granis to the remedy. 1632 in L. B. Taylor Aberdeen Council Lett. (1942) I. 355 With the ordinar remedies of..3 four pennie peices. 1675 R. Vaughan Disc. Coin & Coinage iv. 24 The remedies do make so small a difference that it is not considerable. 1745 M. Folkes Table Eng. Silver Coins 63/1 It appears that the said deficiency, being about 157^th part of the whole, was less than the remedy that has constantly been allowed to the masters and workers of the mint. 1805 Earl of Liverpool Treat. Coins Realm 102 They authorised a large remedy to be taken..and did not require the Officers of the Mint to make their coins as perfect as possible, but authorised or suffered them to coin just within the remedy. 1867 Chambers's Jrnl. 16 Feb. 106/2 For silver coin, the ‘remedy’ or margin of error is fixed at one pennyweight per pound Troy. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1916/1 The remedy on United States silver coin is 1½ grains to the piece. a1918 M. Rollins Money & Investm. (1928) 335 Remedy Allowance. This is a variation allowed to the English mint from the specified standard of weight and fineness... In America, we call this legal variation..the ‘Remedy of the Mint’. 1920 Act 10 Geo. V c. 3 §1(1) As though for the figure ‘4’ in the column relating to the remedy allowance in respect of millesimal fineness there were substituted the figure ‘5’. 2000 A. M. Stahl Zecca ii. x. 228 The final tolerance was set at about 4.0 percent above or below the standard, a remedy five times that originally proposed. 5. At certain English schools (latterly only Winchester and St Paul's): a time specially granted for recreation; a day's or half-day's holiday. †Also without article. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > time off remedyc1450 intermission?1566 vacancy1599 by-time1609 off-duty1844 watch below, off1850 stand easy1859 off time1866 time off1881 lay-off1889 make and mend1899 laze-off1924 R and R1952 downtime1971 me time1980 c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 307 (MED) In companye scolers on a tyme had remedy & went to play þaim. 1518 J. Colet Stat. Paulinae Scholae in J. H. Lupton Life Colet (1887) 278 I will also they shall haue noo remedies yff the Maister grauntith eny remedies, he shall forfett xls... Except the kyng or a archebisshopp or a bisshopp..desyre it. 1580 in Boys Hist. Sandwich (1792) 228 I ordeine, that the master..shall not give remedie or leave to plaie aboue once in a week. c1593 in J. Raine Descr. Anc. Monuments Church of Durham (1842) 75 To recreat themselves when they had remedy of there master. 1656 in Gardiner Regist. St. Paul's School (1884) 382 (note) [At Newport..it was provided that] each Thursday afternoon..shall be a remedy or time of recreation. 1818 N. Carlisle Descr. Endowed Gram. Schools Eng. & Wales II. 465 Some other terms are still used at Winchester School in their ancient signification; thus, a Play-day, is called a Remedy: a term which is also used in the Statutes of St. Paul's School, and some others. 1860 R. B. Mansfield School Life Winchester Coll. (1870) 49 Remedies were not a matter of right, but were always applied for..on Tuesday or Thursday. 1893 Church Times 22 Dec. 1331/2 His lordship afterwards (the Pauline reports)..exercised his privilege of desiring a ‘remedy’ (or half-holiday) on Wednesday. 1990 A. H. Mead Miraculous Draught of Fishes vi. 66 At the end of the ceremony, the Prince asked for a remedy, and was refused: only a reigning sovereign or a bishop, present in the school, might do so, according to the Statutes. Phrases P1. †a. by remedy of: by the help of, by means of. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > by the instrumentality of [phrase] in virtue ofa1250 by (also with) strength of1340 by the virtue ofa1375 by way ofa1393 by (also through) (the) means (also mean) ofa1398 by remedy ofa1398 by force of1411 by feat of1489 by (occasionally through) the benefit ofa1538 in the way of1622 by the way of1623 by (the) dint of1664 by the force of1697 perforce of1714 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 224 Þe fyge tree is made bere wel fruyte by remedy of a tre þat hatte caput ficus. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 39 If women be not peruerse they shall reape profite, by remedye of pleasure. †b. no remedy but: no way out other than, no alternative but. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > necessity [phrase] none other boota1225 needs must that needs shallc1330 no remedy buta1470 needs must when the Devil drivesc1500 what remedy?1511 there is no help for it1581 (there is) nothing for it but1845 c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 358 With a swerd he sholde lese his heed Ther nas noon oother remedye ne reed.] a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 173 Is there no remedy..but that I must have ado with you? 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. 72 Ther is no remedy but to fight, & to abyde fortune. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 293 There was no remedy but he must fight with him. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 20 There had beene no remedy, but he must have dyed upon his owne sword. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 311 We had no Remedy, but to wait and see what the Issue of Things might present. 1807 C. Simeon Helps to Composition IV. 350 We may as well attempt to create an universe as to atone for sin, or to fulfil the strict commands of God's law—There is no remedy but that proposed, of looking unto Jesus. †c. what remedy?: what is the solution, what can be done? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > necessity [phrase] none other boota1225 needs must that needs shallc1330 no remedy buta1470 needs must when the Devil drivesc1500 what remedy?1511 there is no help for it1581 (there is) nothing for it but1845 1511 H. Watson tr. St. Bernardino Chirche of Euyll Men & Women sig. E.iii^v What remedy, what is to be done, wyll not my lordes of the chirche and gouernours of the comon welfare do for the loue of theyr god, lorde, and iuge souerayne, and for the welthe and prosperyte spyrytuell and corporel of theyr subgectes as they are straytly bounden. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 143 The lord sumtym rewaird will it. Gif he dois not, quhat remedy? 1600 R. Armin Foole vpon Foole sig. C1^v Now you must be hanged quoth the King... What remedy sayes hee. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 228 Well, what remedy?..what cannot be eschew'd, must be embrac'd. View more context for this quotation 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xv. sig. D3 He sayes it must not bee so, [y]it is strait pacified, and cryes what remedie. 1694 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: Pt. 2nd i. i. 3 Well then, what remedy?—why thus Brother—if your Master can fancy Princesses, where none ere were..'twill be as easie for you to take the next Comer Sancho—and perswade him to believe 'tis the radiant Dulcinea. †d. no remedy: (as adverbial phrase) unavoidably, inevitably. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > [adverb] > inevitably uneschewablyc1374 without defencec1430 inevitably1447 unscapablyc1449 necessarlya1500 no remedy1531 unavoidably1608 indeclinably1624 unevitably1624 unpreventablya1639 need1641 unfrustrably1654 ineluctably1655 inavoidably1674 unhinderably1678 resistlessly1725 inevadibly1842 infrustrably1861 undivertibly1866 inescapably1881 unescapably1882 deterministically1885 indissuadablya1894 ineludibly1893 1531 tr. E. Fox et al. Determinations Moste Famous Vniuersities f. 53^v Wherfore no remedi thou must go from this intent and purpose, whiche & if thou mightest atteyne, yet shuld it neuer increace thy familie or linage. ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iv. sig. Eviij Yet must it geue place, to Gods worde, no remedye. 1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Bi The vengeaunce of God muste fall no remedye, Upon these wicked men. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 118 You must send her your Page, no remedie . View more context for this quotation a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) x. 706 In default of this (no remedie) the common hammer must come. P2. Proverbs. a. there is a remedy for everything but death and variants. ΚΠ 1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Garden of Pleasure 99 There is a remedie for all things, sauing for death. 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote xliii. 281 Theres a remedy for euery thing but death. 1759 tr. C. G. Tessin Lett. from Old Man I. 125 But there is a remedy for every thing, except death. 1896 F. Locker-Lampson My Confidences 95 There is a remedy for everything except Death,..so the bitterness of this disappointment has long passed away. 1912 O. W. Gillpatrick Man who likes Mexico viii. 217 A Spanish philosopher has said, ‘There is a remedy for everything but death!’ 2008 F. Black Moving On i. 67 There's a remedy for everything but death. b. the remedy is worse than the disease and variants. ΚΠ 1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xiv. 97 It is a strange point of physik, when the remedie it self is more dangerous then the disease.] 1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 63 For which inconveniences, the doctrine of Italy..hath introduced Cabanet councels, a remedy worse then the disease. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xvi. 312 Withdraw thy Action, and depart in Peace; The Remedy is worse than the Disease. 1734 tr. C. Rollin Method teaching & studying Belles Lettres IV. 310 We may then come to correction, but not make it too common and habitual; for then the remedy is worse than the disease. 1794 C. Plowden Remarks Mem. G. Panzani 112 The indiscretions of others proved the remedy to be almost as dangerous as the disease. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. ix. xxi. 151 It has also the property of spirits of wine, to take out greasy spots in silks or woollens; but the remedy is worse than the disease, for it leaves an abominable odour. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Yankee in Canada (1866) 133 They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. 1904 Collier's 7 May 20/1 (advt.) I know you want to reduce your weight, but probably you think it impossible or are afraid the remedy is worse than the disease. 1939 ‘F. O'Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 144 Such practices are murder, and those that are so unhappy as to come under such Circumstances if they use the forementioned means, will certainly one day find the remedy worse than the Disease. 2005 A. Ichijo & G. Uzelac When is Nation? i. 121 Affirmative action has been an attempt to remedy this racism, but the remedy is worse than the disease. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). remedyv. Brit. /ˈrɛmᵻdi/, U.S. /ˈrɛmədi/ Forms: late Middle English–1500s remedie, late Middle English–1500s remedye, late Middle English– remedy, 1500s ramedy (Scottish), 1500s reamedye, 1500s remeady, 1500s remydy, 1500s–1600s remidie, 1600s remedee (Scottish), 1600s remidy. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: remedy n.; French remedier; Latin remediāre. Etymology: Partly < remedy n., and partly < Anglo-Norman and Middle French remedier (1281 in Old French; in Anglo-Norman also occasionally as remeder ; French remédier ) and its etymon classical Latin remediāre (in post-classical Latin also remediari (4th cent.)) to treat, to cure < remedium remedy n. Compare Old Occitan remediar (14th cent.), Catalan remeiar (c1400), Spanish remediar (first half of the 13th cent.), Portuguese remediar (1436), Italian rimediare (second half of the 13th cent. as †remediare ). Compare earlier remedy n. and later remed v., remeid v. †1. transitive. To grant a legal remedy to (a person), provide redress to. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > put right [verb (transitive)] > put right (a wrong or loss) > put right a wrong against (a person) rightOE amendc1300 remedy1414 redressc1450 repaira1578 disendamage1655 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > judge or determine judicially [verb (transitive)] > grant legal remedy to remedy1414 1414 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) IV. 57/1 Byfore hene of the persones that weren and ben Commissioners upon myn enditement..I myghte not have been remedied. 1414 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) IV. 57/1 To have ben remedied of the wronges that we have had. 1454 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 120 That they shuld be remedyed, and he remedyed them not. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 3402 (MED) They..levith verryly That it were impossibill ȝewe to remedy. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 3rd Serm. sig. Hii Ther is one [Judge]..wyll remedye you, if you come after a ryght sorte vnto him. a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Angl. (1671) i. 113 Of which Indignity he complained to the Duke,..and was remedied in it. 1746 ‘Philopolis’ Addr. Citizens Edinb. 23 If their Work should not please them, and such Work as the Employer is not a proper Judge of, he can easily be remedied, if he has Ground to think he is imposed upon. 2. transitive. To put right, reform (a state of things); to rectify, make good. Partly figurative use of sense 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > put right [verb (transitive)] helpc950 amendc1230 bootc1330 correctc1374 menda1375 recovera1398 dighta1400 restorea1400 redressa1402 recurec1425 remedyc1425 remeidc1480 emendc1485 richa1500 rightena1500 chastisea1513 rectifya1529 redeem1575 salve1575 remed1590 reclaim1593 renew1608 retrieve1625 recruit1673 raccommode1754 splice1803 doctor1829 remediate1837 right-side1847 sort1948 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 1461 Þer is a lawe set Be enchauntement þat may nat be let Nor remedied. 1469 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 406 Wyth Goddys grace it schall be remedyed well j-now. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xviii. 81 I thanke you for your loue,..But I your cause can nothynge remedy. 1605 M. Drayton Poems sig. Hh8 They..Take armes at once to remedy their wrong. 1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 23 The House of Lords shall remedy all offences contrary to the Law of Magna Charta. 1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. I. i. 49 They cannot remedy the Corruption that has spread thro' the Race of Mankind. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man iii. 33 That shall be remedied without delay. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xxi. 417 Repentance taketh sin away, Death remedies the rest. 1853 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 127 1179 A great deal [has] been done to remedy the deficiency. 1893 W. Z. Ripley Financial Hist. Virginia ii. 52 This was remedied by an official inspection of all tobacco which was brought to market. 1933 J. B. S. Haldane Sci. & Human Life 108 If a difference in effective fertility exists between the rich and the poor, it seems to me profoundly illogical to attempt to remedy it by making the rich richer and the poor poorer. 1977 M. Helprin Refiner's Fire ii. vi. 62 Numbers did not make sense to him... If the head of the primary school sat him down to try and remedy his numeral ignorance, Marshall could not concentrate. 2002 S. Angley et al. Landscape Estimating & Contract Admin. ix. 95 The owner usually holds back part of the payments on the contract price until defects are remedied. 3. a. transitive. To cure or alleviate (a disease, symptom, etc.). Also in figurative contexts. ΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 94 (MED) Bot if þat it be sone remedied, i. soccoured, to þe akyng [L. occurratur dolori] of þe emoroidez..þai ar sone apostemed.] c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 2758 Al hir sorowe was holp and remedyed. c1450 Practica Phisicalia John of Burgundy in H. Schöffler Mittelengl. Medizinlit. (1919) 210 (MED) Quinfoyle..schall remedy þe peyn off the wombe. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 37 It being wrought and tempered..remedieth all kinde of swelling. 1585 Disc. Med. called Mithradatium sig. D.4 Mithridatium remedyeth diseases of the minde. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §730 Lassitude is remedied by bathing or anointing with oil and warm water. 1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. ii. 7 A sharp fit of a feverish distemper, which a little time..will infallibly remedy. 1717 H. Banyer tr. J. van Horne Micro-techne 85 It is not difficult to remedy this defect [sc. hare-lip], if you can bring the divided Parts to a mutual Contact. 1754–64 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery I. 428 Tongue-tying is easily remedied by introducing the forefinger into the child's mouth, raising up the tongue, and snipping the bridle with a pair of Scissars. 1795 B. Moseley Treat. Trop. Dis. (ed. 3) 353 When a relapse happens after several days, it is remedied by careful regimen, and a dram dose of rhubarb. 1852 Ohio Cultivator 8 226/1 The results of all attempts to remedy the disease having been unsatisfactory, M. Prange proposes to bury the Vines. 1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 691/2 Other deformities, such as knock-knee or genu valgum and bow-leg or genu varum, have been remedied by operation. 1910 H. V. Knaggs Indigestion ii. 79 The Müller ‘My System’ exercises are probably the best devised for remedying constipation and indigestion. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xiv. 323 The condition is remedied by feeding during the deficiency period a ‘lick’ of hydrolized wool. 2003 Self Def. for Women Fall 29 (caption) Garlic is a great source of..a form of sulfur shown to be effective in remedying seasonal allergies. †b. transitive. To heal or cure (a person, animal, part of the body, etc.). Also in figurative context. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > heal or cure [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person or part wholeeOE healc1000 betterOE i-sundienc1175 salvea1225 botenc1225 savea1250 warishc1250 recurea1382 curec1384 mendc1390 remedya1470 cheerc1540 loosea1637 to pull through1816 rehab1973 a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1002 There happened on her a malodye..And no leche cowde remedye her. 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. iv. sig. e.ii ^v The synner..is from the moost gretest payne remedyed. ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Hiij^v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens When the party y^t shuld be holpen & remydyed is hyd in the dypenes of the body. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. v. sig. Gg5 Into the woods..shee went, To seeke for hearbes, that mote him remedy. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 347 If one Horsse do die of it, al his fellowes that beare him company will follow after, if they bee not remedied in time. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc i. 57 Some pious sisterhood, Who..may likeliest remedy The stricken mind. †4. intransitive. To provide a remedy. Also with for, of. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > effect a cure [verb (intransitive)] healc1000 remedy1477 cure1787 the world > action or operation > amending > provide a remedy [verb (intransitive)] remedy1477 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 55 Ye [be] seke of the maladye of loue wherof no man may remedye but youre lady. a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 387 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 555 For ache of bonys & also for brosour, It remedieth & dooth ese ful blyve. 1586 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Quarto MS (1920) 261/46 Ȝour constancie May remedie. Derivatives ˈremedying n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] rightingOE mendmentc1300 amendment1340 correction1340 amendinga1382 mendinga1400 rectificationa1400 mendnessa1425 redress1448 addressment1481 redressa1529 remedying1547 redub1549 restauration1560 correcting1580 rightening1583 emendation1586 restitution1636 cure1675 reform1700 readjustment1749 remediation1794 redressal1800 redressment1822 1547 C. Langton Very Brefe Treat. Phisick sig. B.i^v Hippocrates wrot thre great bokes of the remediyinge of all feruent diseases. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1221/1 For the remediying and redressyng of those foresayd iniuries. 1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. iii. 18 For the remedying of such abuses the Ancients did appoint divers officers. 1745 W. Whiston Sacred Hist. I. iv. 354 All this on his return to Sardes he represented unto the King, who being thereby made fully sensible of the Error he had committed, for the remedying of it sent a Messenger to Myrcinus. 1805 T. Douglas Observ. Present State Highlands Scotl. App. G p.xxviii In remedying of this inconvenience, the king's wisdom was admirable, and the parliament's at that time. 1898 B. T. Tilton tr. H. Tillmanns Text-bk. Surg. II. iv. 230 By cheiloplasty is understood the remedying of defects upon the lips by plastic operation. 1941 J. Huxley Democracy Marches iii. 32 People were free to criticize and free to found private organizations for the relief of distress or the remedying of abuses. 2003 A. Buchanan in A. Buchanan & M. Moore States,Nations, & Borders xii. 248 Secession can be viewed as the remedying of an injustice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1225v.1414
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