The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purpose \Pur"pose\, n. [OF. purpos, pourpos, propos, L. propositum. See Propound.]
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That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.
He will his firste purpos modify.
--Chaucer.As my eternal purpose hath decreed. -- Milton.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it.
--Shak. Proposal to another; discourse. [Obs.]
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Instance; example. [Obs.]
--L'Estrange.In purpose, Of purpose, On purpose, with previous design; with the mind directed to that object; intentionally. On purpose is the form now generally used.
Syn: design; end; intention; aim. See Design.
Wiktionary
prep.phr. (context idiomatic English) With purpose; intentionally; purposely.
WordNet
adv. with intention; in an intentional manner; "he used that word intentionally"; "I did this by choice" [syn: intentionally, deliberately, designedly, purposely, advisedly, by choice, by design] [ant: by chance, unintentionally, unintentionally]
Wikipedia
On Purpose is the tenth studio album by American country music artist Clint Black. It was released on September 25, 2015 via Thirty Tigers and Black Top Records. Black wrote all of the album's fourteen tracks. The album was produced by Black.
Usage examples of "on purpose".
I'd noticed they kept being singled out by Hopkins for my special brand of discipline, as if they'd screwed up on purpose in order to face me.
The two sides are kept a sword's length and three feet apart on purpose.
He doesnt think that trying to limit population on purpose will help.
He doesn't think that trying to limit population on purpose will help.
That'll still leave two of us to support your people, but if someone down there did attract the NPA's attention on purpose and tries to bug out, we'll nail him.
I was thunderstruck in the middle of the thought that they had done this on purpose just to ask directions, as a panhandler advances on you straight up the sidewalk to bar your way.