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Procure   /proʊkjˈʊr/   Listen
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Procure  v. t.  (past & past part. procured; pres. part. procuring)  
1.
To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or loan. "If we procure not to ourselves more woe."
2.
To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause. "By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach." "Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall."
3.
To solicit; to entreat. (Obs.) "The famous Briton prince and faery knight,... Of the fair Alma greatly were procured To make there longer sojourn and abode."
4.
To cause to come; to bring; to attract. (Obs.) "What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?"
5.
To obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution.
Synonyms: See Attain.


Procure  v. i.  
1.
To pimp.
2.
To manage business for another in court. (Scot.)





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... step of the revolutionary party when it came to power, with the mandate of a popular majority to bring in the new order, was to establish in all important centers public-service stores, where public employees could procure at cost all provisions of necessity or luxury previously bought at private stores. The idea was the less startling for not being wholly new. It had been the custom of various governments to provide for certain of the needs of their soldiers and sailors by establishing service stores at which everything ...
— Equality • Edward Bellamy
... have been noses ever since there have been men. Similarly, hands not having been given on behalf of glove-makers, they are visibly destined for all the purposes which the metacarpal bones and the phalanges and the circular muscle of the wrist may procure for us. ...
— Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary • Voltaire
... treatise upon it: for his family have often informed me that he laboured hard upon this work for some time before his death, and was very anxious to have completed it, frequently remarking to them that this work, when published, would procure him more credit than any of his former publications. But he lived not to put the finishing hand to it. Whatever he wrote upon this subject probably fell, together with all his other remaining papers, into the hands of Major Henry Watson, of the Engineers, in the service of the India Company, ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 9, Saturday, December 29, 1849 • Various
... on my mother's part; nothing had made so great an impression on me as the music of Freischutz, and I tried in every possible way to procure a repetition of the impressions I had received from it, but, strange to say, least of all by the study of music itself. Instead of this, I contented myself with hearing bits from Freischutz played by my sisters. Yet my passion for it gradually grew so strong that I can remember taking ...
— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner
... answered the Major, briskly, as if such a "job" was the easiest thing in the world to procure. "And meantime—" ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces • Edith Van Dyne


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