In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
PROCURES
Verb
procures
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of procure
Anagrams
• croupers, procerus
Source: Wiktionary
PROCURE
Pro*cure", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Procured; p. pr. & vb. n. Procuring.] Etym: [F. procurer, L. procurare, procuratum, to take care of; pro for + curare to take care, fr. cura care. See Cure, and cf. Proctor, Proxy.]
1. To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or loan. If we procure not to ourselves more woe. Milton.
2. To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause. By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach. Robynson (More's Utopia) . Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall. Shak.
3. To solicit; to entreat. [Obs.] The famous Briton prince and faery knight, . . . Of the fair Alma greatly were procured To make there longer sojourn and abode. Spenser.
4. To cause to come; to bring; to attract. [Obs.] What unaccustomed cause procures her hither Shak.
5. To obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution.
Syn.
– See Attain.
Pro*cure", v. i.
1. To pimp. Shak.
2. To manage business for another in court. [Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
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