Procere vs Procure - What's the difference?
procere | procure |
(obsolete) Of high stature; tall.
* 1664 , John Evelyn, Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber
To acquire or obtain.
* Milton
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To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.
(criminal law) To induce or persuade someone to do something.
(obsolete) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.
* Shakespeare
In obsolete terms the difference between procere and procure
is that procere is of high stature; tall while procure is to cause to come; to bring; to attract.As an adjective procere
is of high stature; tall.As a verb procure is
to acquire or obtain.procere
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Such lignous and woody plants as are hard of substance, procere of stature, that are thick and solid, and stiffly adhere to the ground on which they stand.
procure
English
Verb
(procur)- if we procure not to ourselves more woe
- 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.
- By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.
- Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.
- The famous Briton prince and faery knight, / Of the fair Alma greatly were procured / To make there longer sojourn and abode.
- What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?