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Definition of Procures
1. procure [v] - See also: procure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Procures
Literary usage of Procures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1800)
"... tells the King how such a Nunnery was become a bawdy house, procures a
visitation, Yet were rt so, that these of which I have hitherto spoken, ..."
2. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin (1818)
"Dudley procures that title for the marquis of Dorset, and the dukedom of
Northumberland for ... He procures a settlement of the crown on the lady Jane. ..."
3. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin (1826)
"Dudley procures that title for the marquis of Dorset, and the dukedom of
Northumberland for himself. —Particulars of the last earl of Northumberland. ..."
4. The Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke, LL.D.: Including in Detail His Various by Samuel Drew (1818)
"... privateer — Mr. Asbury's letter relative to Dr. Coke's return — Returns to
England — Projects and procures the establishment of Missions among the Irish ..."
5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland (1886)
"An accessory before the fact is one who directly or indirectly counsels, procures,
or commands any person to commit any crime which is committed in ..."
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