PROCURE

v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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. Milton.

2.
v.

To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause. By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach. Robynson (More's Utopia) . Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall. Shak.

3.
v.

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. Spenser.

4.
v.

To cause to come; to bring; to attract. [Obs.] What unaccustomed cause procures her hither Shak.

5.
v.

To obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution.

6.
v.

To pimp. Shak.

7.
v.

To manage business for another in court. [Scot.]