procure
See also: procuré
English
WOTD – 22 March 2007
Etymology
From Old French procurer, from Late Latin prōcūrāre, present active infinitive of Latin prōcūrō (“I manage, administer”), from prō (“on behalf of”) + cūrō (“I care for”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹəˈkjʊə/
- (US) IPA(key): /pɹoʊˈkjʊɹ/, /pɹəˈkjʊɹ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Verb
procure (third-person singular simple present procures, present participle procuring, simple past and past participle procured)
- (transitive) To acquire or obtain.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- if we procure not to ourselves more woe
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill. How these were to be procured, no one was able to imagine.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- (transitive) To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.
- (transitive, criminal law) To induce or persuade someone to do something.
- (obsolete) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.
- (Can we date this quote?) Ralph Robinson (translator), Thomas More, Utopia
- By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.
- (Can we date this quote?) Ralph Robinson (translator), Thomas More, Utopia
- (obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.
- (Can we date this quote?) Spenser
- The famous Briton prince and faery knight, […] / Of the fair Alma greatly were procured / To make there longer sojourn and abode.
- (Can we date this quote?) Spenser
- (obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
Related terms
Translations
To acquire or obtain an item or service
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To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else
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To induce or persuade someone to do something
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References
- “procure” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
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Verb
procure
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of procurar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of procurar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of procurar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of procurar.
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