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Purpose
PUR'POSE, n. [L. propositum, propono; pro, before,and pono, to set or place.]
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure or exertion. We believe the Supreme Being created intelligent beings for some benevolent and glorious purpose, and if so, how glorious and benevolent must be his purpose in the plan of redemption! The ambition of men is generally directed to one of two purposes, or to both; the acquisition of wealth or of power. We build houses for the purpose of shelter; we labor for the purpose of subsistence.
2. Intention; design. This sense, however, is hardly to be distinguished from the former; as purpose always includes the end in view.
Every purpose is established by counsel. Prov 20.
Being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Eph 1.
3. End; effect; consequence, good or bad. What good purpose will this answer? We sometimes labor to no purpose. Men often employ their time, talents and money for very evil purposes.
To what purpose is this waste? Mat 26.
4. Instance; example. [Not in use.]
5. Conversation. [Not in use.]
Of purpose, on purpose, with previous design; with the mind directed to that object. On purpose is more generally used, but the true phrase is of purpose.
PUR'POSE,v.t. To intend; to design; to resolve; to determine on some end or object to be accomplished.
I have purposed it,I will also do it. Isa 46. Eph 3.
Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem. Acts 19.
purpose appears in definitions for these words:
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Aback About Absonant Abuse Abused Abusing Accent Acclamation Accommodation Accomplish Achiever Adequacy Advise Advisedly Advocation Afforest Agriculture Aid Aim Air-holder Air-pump Ale Altarage Ambuscade Ambush Analyze Anatomize Anatomy Animal Anneal Answer Apart Apostle Apostrophy Applause Apply Appoint Appraise Apprehend Apprentice Apprize Appropriation Apropos Aptitude Architecture Arrange Arrest Arrow Art Arteriotomy Assembly Assess Assessment Assign Associate Assort Assortment Attain Attempt Auction Audit Avail Backgammon Bailee Bailor Band Bank Bar Bastile Bath Bathe Batter Battery Batton Bawd Bay Be Bearer Beat Beating Beauty Belt Besiege Bestor Bestride Bibble-babble Billet Bird-eye Bless Blow Board Boil Boiling Book-keeping Boom Bopeep Brad Brand Break Bribe Brief Bronz Brood Brothel Brotherhood Brush Bud Bulls-eye Bursar Burton Business Butt By-design By-stander Calculalation Calculate Calender Call Camphor-tree Cannonade Canoe Canvas Capricious Capriciousness Card Careen Cast Castle-ward Castrato Cat Cat-gut Catamite Cement Century Ceremony Certificate Cessation Chain Charact Charitable Chase Chasten Chastener Chastening Chastise Cheat Cherry Chimistry Chronometer Church-warden Cicatrize Circuit Circumvent Civil Clash Clew-lines Close Cloth Clout Club Clyster Codle Cog Cogitation Collection College Collusion Colonize Combination Combining Committee Commodious Commodiousness Company Compare Compass Competent Compose Compunctious Conceive Conception Concubine Conference Confessedly Confirm Conformation Confraternity Consecrator Consequential Conspiracy Constable Constant Consult Contemplation Contrary Contribute Contributed Contributing Contribution Contributor Contributory Convention Cook Counsel County Crab Craft Craftiness Crank Credit Crier Croft Cromlech Cross Cross-purpose Crownet Crucifixion Cumber Cunning Cup Dam Dare Daring Deaden Decree Decreed Dedicate Dedicating Deliberately Depart Departure Deposit Desecrate Desecrated Desecrating Desecration Design Designate Designedly Designment Desist Destination Destine Determination Determine Determined Device Devotion Dexterity Diagram Digressional Dike Dimiciliary Diocese Disappoint Disappointing Discreet Discuss Disguise Dispose Disqualify Dissect Dissection Dissimulation Dissuade Dissuaded Dissuading Dissuasion Dissuasive District Diversion Divert Do Dominical Dragons-blood Draw Drink Drum Drum-stick Duel Dunder Duplicity Eaves-dropper Effect Effectuate Efficacious Emigrate Emigration Emphasize Employ Enacture Encamp End Engine Engross Enough Envoy Epiphysis Episode Epispastic Epitrope Err Esophagotomy Estrange Eter Evade Execute Expedience Expedient Expedition Express Extraordinary Extravagantly Eyebolt Face Fagot Fall Fallaciously Fallow False Far Fastening Fat Felonious Fence Fickle Fickleness Final Finessing Firmness Fitment Flatterer Flattery Flexible Flighty Flittermouse Flummery Follow Fomentation For Force Forceps Foreign Foundation Frame Frostnail Frugality Frustrate Futile Gad Gallant Gallantry Gang Garden Ginger Goal Good Googings Guild Gusset Hallowing Hand Handkerchief Handle Handspike Harrow Hawk Heart Heart-searching Hedge-creeper Heft Hellblack Help Helplessness Herb Hermit Hew Highwayman Hold Holy Honorably Hoop Hospitaller Hunt Hunting Hunting-seat Hydraulics Hypothesis Hypothetic Idea Identify Identifying Imagination Imagine Immigrant Immigrate Immigration Immovable Immovably Impertinent Implant Impostor Improve Improved Improvement Inadequacy Inadequate Inapplicable Incantation Incendiary Incidental Incidentally Inconstant Incubation Indecision Indeed Indirect Industriously Inequality Inexorable Inexpedience Inexpedient Infirm Inflexibility Inflexibleness Informtion Infuse Ingraft Inoculate Inroad Insignificant Insignificantly Inspect Inspector Instability Instable Instrument Insufficient Intend Intended Intendedly Intent Intention Intentional Intentionally Intentioned Interline Interpolate Intervene Intrigue Invasion Irrelevantly Irresolute Irresoluteness Irresolution Itinerate Jesuitism Joke Judge Judgment Junto Jurisdiction Kiln Knight-errant Laconism Lanch Laudableness Lay League Lemma Level Lie Lift Light Like-minded Litter Logic Losing Lost Lotion Machination Maguey Make Manageable Manageableness Maneuver Manifesto Marque Marriage Mat Material Matrass Mean Meaning Mechanism Mediator Medically Medicine Meet Mercury Merely Might Migration Mill Mince Mind Misapplication Misapplied Misapply Misapplying Misemploy Misemployed Misemploying Misemployment Misimprove Misimproved Misimprovement Miskindle Misspend Misspending Misspent Mistress Misuse Mold Money Monopolizer Moralize Moralized Moralizing Mortal Mutability Mutable Name Naughtiness Necessaries Necessary Necessity Nestle Night-walker Nobleness Non-essential Nonce Nostrum Notation Notify Nursery Obbligato Obelisk Object Obstinacy Obstinate Obstinately Obstinateness Odd Offering Office Only Opportunely Opportunity Order Origan Originate Orlop Osculatory Ouster Outlaw Outlive Pack Packing Pair Pan Parade Parlor Parody Partnership Passing-note Paymaster Perambulate Perambulating Perdu Perissology Persevering Persistive Pertinacious Pertinaciously Pertinaciousness Pertinent Pertinently Pervert Pet Pharmacy Pierce Pirate Piston Platform Pleasure Plenteous Plentiful Plot Point Police Pollock Pond Poor Posture Pot Powder Prate Prater Preciptancy Precisive Preconceived Predesign Predesigned Predestinate Predestinating Predestination Predetermination Predetermine Predisposition Preen Preparation Preparative Prepare Pretense Prevaricate Prevarication Privity Propose Propound Prosecute Prosecutor Prostitute Prostituted Prostitutor Prudence Pump Purpose Purposed Purposely Put Quadrant Qualify Quoin Quoit Rabbet Raise Random Ready Rebuke Recommendation Record Recourse Regimen Remember Repetition Replevy Reserve Resolute Resolutely Resoluteness Resolution Resolve Resolved Resolvedly Resolvedness Resolver Resolving Respect Respire Review Right Roam Rock-alum Roller Roof Rope Roundly Rub Sacred Sacrilege Sage Sake Salutary Sanctification Scale Scant Scantling Scope Score Scotch Scour Scourge Scout Scratch Scrub Scuttle Seal Sealing-voyage Search Seasonable Seemer Seemly Selfishly Send Sense Sepulcher Seriously Sermon Servant Serve Service Set Shape Shift Short Siege Sight Signal Sin Sinfulness Singleness Sinister Siphon Sitting Skill Smelt Smelting Society Sow-thistle Specht Specially Speech Spell Spend Spunge Stability Stable Stableness Staff Stagger Stale Stand Starter Station Statute-merchant Steddiness Steddy Stedfastness Steep String Study Subministrate Subserve Subservience Subservient Substitute Success Sufficiency Sufficiently Suit Superintendence Superstitious Supervacaneous Sure Surrender Surveyor Sway Swim Synagogue Synovy Table Tail Tansy Tavern Tease Teasing Tend Termination Testify Testifying Testimony Teutonic That Theopathy Think Thought Threaten Threatening Through Thwart Time Tin Tiver To Tocsin Tookpick Torture Transmigrate Transmigration Traverse Tray Trenching Trial Tributary Trick Trifle Trim Trough Trowel Truce Truss Tub Tube Tune Turn Tyranny Un Undermine Undertake Underwrite Undesigned Undesignedness Undesigning Undeviating Unimproved Unintentionally Unmoved Unpremeditated Unprofitable Unprofitably Unsteadfast Unsteadiness Unuseful Use Useful Useless Uselessness Vagary Vain Vainly Valuation Vane Varnish Vegetable Vengeance Ventilation Vexatious Victim View Visitor Voice Volition Voluntary Wade Wait Want Warp Wash-board Waste Watch Watchfulness Watering Weigh Well-intentioned Whet Whetting Which Whittle Who Will Willfully Wily Windrow Winnow Wipe Witness Word Writing
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