To take good heede: to care for: to doe a thing diligently. Accurare pro Curare: vt, Quisque rem accurat suam. Plaut. Let euery man see to his owne charge. Accurare hospites. Plaut. To intertayne guestes. Prãdium accurare. Plaut. To prouide or make readie dinner. Pensum accurare. Plaut. To haue care to doe that we haue in charge.

I. In gen. (in Plaut. and Ter. very often; more rare in the class. per., partic. in the verb. fin.; while the P. a. occurs very often in Cic., see below).

(a). With acc.: prandium alicui, Plaut. Mer. 1, 3, 25: quod facto est opus, id. Cas. 3, 3, 25: rem sobrie aut frugaliter, id. Pers. 4, 1, 1 al.: melius adcurantur, quae consilio geruntur, quam quae sine consilio administrantur, Cic. Inv. 1, 34, 58: virtus et cultus humanus sub tecto adcurantur, id. Fr. in Col. 12 praef.: barbam, Lampr. Heliog. 31.—

(b). Absol.: ergo adcures: properato opus est, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 210, v. Ritschl a. h. l.—

(g). With ut or ne: omnes bonos bonasque adcurare addecet, suspicionem et culpam ut ab se segregent, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 42; so with ut, Ter. And. 3, 2, 14; with ne, id. Hec. 5, 1, 12.—

II. Esp.: adcurare aliquem, to treat one carefully, regale a guest, Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 55.—Hence, accūrātus, a, um, P. a., prepared with care, careful, studied, elaborate, exact (never of persons, for which diligens is used; syn.: meditatus, exquisitus, elaboratus, politus): adcurata malitia, a studied artifice, Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 20: adcuratae et meditatae commentationes, Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 257: adcuratius et exquisitius dicendi genus, id. Brut. 82, 283: adcuratissima diligentia, id. Att. 7, 3 al: adcuratum habere = adcurare, to take care, be at pains, Plaut. Bac. 3, 6, 21. —Adv.: accūrāte, carefully, nicely, exactly (syn.: diligenter, studiose, exquisite), Cic. Att. 16, 5; id. Parad. 1, 4; id. Brut. 22 al.—Comp., id. Att. 8, 12; Caes. B. G. 6, 22; id. B. Alex. 12.—Sup., id. Fam. 5, 17; Nep. Lys. 4, 2.