-uresuff.1. Act; process; condition: erasure.2. a. Function; office: judicature.b. Body performing a function: legislature.[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -?ra.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.-ure suffix forming nouns 1. indicating act, process, or result: seizure. 2. indicating function or office: legislature; prefecture. [from French, from Latin -?ra]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014-ure an abstract-noun suffix of action, result, and instrument, occurring in loanwords from French and Latin: pressure; legislature. [