Both Uses
procure
in
The Black Cat
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- Observing my partiality for domestic pets, she lost no opportunity of procuring those of the most agreeable kind.†
*procuring = getting by special effort
- Having procured mortar, sand, and hair, with every possible precaution, I prepared a plaster which could not be distinguished from the old, and with this I very carefully went over the new brickwork.†
procured = got by special effort
Definitions:
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(1)
(procure) get by special effort
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)