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Webster 1828 Edition
Purposed
PUR'POSED
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1.
Resolved; having formed a design or resolution; applied to persons. I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. Ps.17.
Definition 2024
purposed
purposed
English
Adjective
purposed (comparative more purposed, superlative most purposed)
- Intentional, deliberate. [from 15th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- to interrupt the course of his continuall happinesse, and to recompence it, [he] cast the richest and most precious jewell he had into the Sea, deeming that by this purposed [transl. aposté] mishap he should satisfie the revolution and vicissitude of fortune […].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- (rare) Having a purpose or aim; determined. [from 16th c.]
Verb
purposed
- simple past tense and past participle of purpose