Devolution and Cure

noun

• The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality.
  • synonyms: degeneration
• The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government. ).
  • synonyms: devolvement

• (n.) The act of rolling down.
• (n.) Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor.

DEVOLUTION is the delegation of authority from higher to lower levels.

noun

• A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain.
  • synonyms: remedy, curative, therapeutic

verb

• Provide a cure for, make healthy again.
  • usage: "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"
  • synonyms: bring around, heal
• Prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve.
  • usage: "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"
• Make (substances) hard and improve their usability.
  • usage: "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap"
• Be or become preserved.
  • usage: "the apricots cure in the sun"

• (v.t.) To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
• (n.) Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.
• (n.) Care, heed or attention.
• (v.i.) To restore health; to effect a cure.
• (n.) Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease or to soundness after injury.
• (n.) Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
• (v.t.) To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.
• (v.t.) To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
• (v.i.) To become healed.
• (n.) Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
• (v.i.) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
• (n.) A curate; a pardon.
• (v.t.) To heal; to restore to health, soundness or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.
• Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest.

To make good a default.