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procure | unprocurable |

As a verb procure

is to acquire or obtain.

As an adjective unprocurable is

impossible to procure; unobtainable.

procure

English

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?

    Synonyms

    * (acquire) obtain * (obtain a prostitute) buy, purchase

    Related terms

    * procurement * procurer * procuress

    References

    * ----

    unprocurable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Impossible to procure; unobtainable.
  • * 1884 , (Richard Francis Burton), The Book of the Sword :
    • It is clear, for instance, in Central Africa, where copper and tin were unprocurable , that man must first have used iron.
  • * 1917 , The Guardian , 1 Jun 1917:
    • We have been told in many plaintive articles and letters in the London press that servants nowadays are almost unprocurable , and even the best people are having to shut up part of their houses and live in one floor, and so on.
  • * 1949 , (George Orwell), Nineteen Eighty-Four :
    • But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick or certain poison, were completely unprocurable .