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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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"Procure" Quotes from Famous Books

... cherished a dream. Remonencq was happy in his dream; La Cibot had a dream of her own; and Dr. Poulain, too, dreamed. Some day he would be called in to attend a rich and influential patient, would effect a positive cure, and the patient would procure a post for him; he would be head surgeon to a hospital, medical officer of a prison or police-court, or doctor to the boulevard theatres. He had come by his present appointment as doctor to the Mairie in this very way. La Cibot had called him in when the landlord ...

— Cousin Pons • Honore de Balzac

... sum, which had grown smaller and smaller, till now there was left to him hardly enough to create an infinitesimal dividend. But he was not a man to become downhearted on that account. A living of some kind he could pick up, and did now procure for himself, from the press of the day. He wrote poetry for the periodicals, and politics for the penny papers with considerable success and sufficient pecuniary results. He would sooner do this, he often boasted, than abandon his great ideas or descend into the arena with other weapons ...

— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope

... to. We are here to procure specimens and nothing else. But if I could pick up any ivory on my own hook, I suppose it would be ...

— The Rogue Elephant - The Boys' Big Game Series • Elliott Whitney

... under the altered circumstances be considered as rivals to the classical David, they both saw the century out. Fragonard simply ceased painting for want of patrons, and David was good enough to procure him a post in the Museum des Arts, or he would have starved. Unfortunately he attempted to adapt himself to the new style, and was promptly ejected from his post—ostensibly on his previous connection ...

— Six Centuries of Painting • Randall Davies

... of an agricultural labourer. Young Nicoll received the rudiments of his education from his mother, a woman of superior shrewdness and information; subsequently to his seventh year he tended cattle in the summer months, to procure the means of attending the parish school during the other portion of the year. From his childhood fond of reading, books were his constant companions—in the field, on the highway, and during the intervals of leisure in his father's cottage. In his thirteenth year, he wrote ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

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