half-cured

• a word derived from cure.
  cure

  noun

  a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.

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half-cured

Instead he puts on pop-eyed fits, refers to the asylum darkly as "that place," protests too much in trying to give an accurate picture of a half-cured madman.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then everything grew dazed about her—Hanover Lodge and the Princess, the empty phantasmagoria of courts, balls and routs, the disputes and reconciliations of royal Dukes, Louis and his half-cured amours with the Arlington.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

But, when he told me to read, and soon perceived my only half-cured infirmity, he faithfully enough assured me with sorrow that I could not be ordained unless I had my speech.

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar

After coffee has been half-cured, the putting it up hot at an early period of the day has the effect of curing it all night.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

There he was patched up quickly and sent out half-cured.

From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward

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