The Collaborative International Dictionary
Procure \Pro*cure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Procured; p. pr. & vb. n. Procuring.] [F. procurer, L. procurare, procuratum, to take care of; pro for + curare to take care, fr. cura care. See Cure, and cf. Proctor, Proxy.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To cause to come; to bring; to attract. [Obs.]
What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?
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To obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution.
Syn: See Attain.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of procure English)
Wikipedia
Procuring may refer to:
- Procurement, a business process to acquire goods or services
- Procuring (prostitution), the act of aiding a prostitute in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer
Procuring or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer. A procurer, colloquially called a pimp (if male) or a madam (if female), is an agent for prostitutes who collects part of their earnings. The procurer may receive this money in return for advertising services, physical protection, or for providing, and possibly monopolizing, a location where the prostitute may engage clients. Like prostitution, the legality of certain actions of a madam or a pimp vary from one region to the next.
Examples of procuring include:
- trafficking a prostitute into a country for the purpose of soliciting sex
- operating a prostitution business
- transporting a prostitute to the location of their arrangement
- deriving financial gain from the prostitution of another
Usage examples of "procuring".
I was thus engaged in a rather delicate adventure, the end of which I could not possibly foresee, but my warmth for my protegee did not cool down, and having no difficulty in procuring the means to keep her I had no wish to see the last scene of the romance.
She thought very likely that you still loved me, and she imagined, for I know her well, that she could not give us a greater proof of her love than by procuring us, without forewarning us, that which two lovers fond of each other must wish for so ardently.
How could you suppose that I would have any difficulty in procuring you that pleasure, when on the contrary, nothing could please me more myself?
I could sleep if I liked, containing a fire-place, in which I could light a fire if I thought fit, but as to procuring firewood or provisions, he left that all to me.
I answered gravely that I did not want the money, and that I had augmented the first flagon only for the sake of procuring him an agreeable surprise.
Her crimes were procuring abortion and killing erring mothers, substituting the living for the dead, and in one case a boy for a girl, thus giving him the enjoyment of property which did not belong to him.
I had lost that last resource I had no means of procuring the slightest information.
All I had to do was to get some sulphur and tinder, and the procuring of these two articles set all my wits to work.
Thus the first step had been taken, and Donna Ignazia felt it would be ridiculous not to join in with my conversation at the ball which all tended to procuring the pleasure of spending our nights together.
I made him sit down, while I thanked him for procuring me a housekeeper who was all perfection.
He promised to come again early the next day, and advised me to see what money would do towards procuring a bed, but I would not listen to him, for I was suffering from injustice, and was therefore obstinate.
Reflection of a Philosopher who finds himself thinking of procuring his own death.
At the end of January, finding myself under the necessity of procuring two hundred sequins, Madame Manzoni contrived to obtain for me from another woman the loan of a diamond ring worth five hundred.
I succeed in procuring English saffron, which Paracelsus prefers to the Oriental saffron.
We leave you to enjoy your sense of virtue, and we spend our money in procuring those favours which you refuse us.