Verb

(procur)

To acquire or obtain.

* Milton

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.

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)

By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.

* Shakespeare

Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.

(obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.

* Spenser

The famous Briton prince and faery knight, / Of the fair Alma greatly were procured / To make there longer sojourn and abode.

(obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.

* Shakespeare

What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?

Verb

(prepar)

To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble.

* Bible, Psalms cvii. 36

that they may prepare a city for habitation

* Dryden

our souls, not yet prepared for upper light

To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.

To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.