Procured vs Obtainable - What's the difference?
procured | obtainable |
(procure)
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
Capable of being obtained or procured.
* 2007 , Bill Mason,
As a verb procured
is (procure).As a adjective obtainable is
capable of being obtained or procured.procured
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(head)Anagrams
*procure
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(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?
Synonyms
* (acquire) obtain * (obtain a prostitute) buy, purchaseReferences
* ----obtainable
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(en adjective)Connetquot targeted: BLACK POWDER HISTORY, Newsday.com , 14 July,
- Potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal are combined in proportions and through methods easily obtainable in books and on the Internet.