| 释义 |
▪ I. procuring, vbl. n.|prəʊˈkjʊərɪŋ|
Also 5 ˈprokering.
[f. procure v. + -ing1: in ME. ˈprocuring.]
The action of the verb procure.
†1. Doing one's best, labouring, striving. Obs.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Pref. 5 Spendyng his lyfe in procuring for owr wealth.
2. The action of causing or contriving to bring about; the fact of being the prime agent; = procurement 1. Now rare.
1340Ayenb. 39 Greate prelas, þet..robbeþ hire onderlinges be to moche procuringe. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 35 Þat was at erle Harolde his procurynge. c1400Destr. Troy 13766 Thurgh his prokuryng prestly all the pure Troiens... Were deliuert yche lede, & lause at hor willne. c1440York Myst. xl. 82 Thurgh prokering of princes. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 99 He was there by myne excitacion and procuryng to haue slain the fore⁓saied Prince there in his bedde. 1639Fuller Holy War iii. xi. (1840) 133 Henry..was chosen King of Jerusalem, by the especial procuring of King Richard his uncle.
3. The getting or obtaining (of anything) by effort; = procurement 2.
1608Hieron Wks I. 753 We may euen deuote our selues to the procuring of the present and eternall good one of another. 1663Gerbier Counsel 108 The procuring of precious Wood. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. ii. 135 The procuring of refreshments. 1885Weekly Notes 72/1 The maliciously procuring a bankruptcy is not actionable unless the adjudication is set aside.
4. The action of a procurer or procuress.
a1758Ramsay Address of Thanks xvii, Your procuring Is now sae far frae being a crime.
▪ II. procuring, ppl. a.|prəʊˈkjʊərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That procures, in various senses; causing, producing; obtaining, winning; pandering, pimping.
c1618Moryson Itin. (1903) 427 If any man, by himselfe or by any frend, makes meanes to be chosen Rectour, he must pay 50 Lyers, and his procuring frend 30. 1672Cave Prim. Chr. i. iii. (1673) 52 The procuring cause of all those mischiefs and calamities. 1693Dryden Juvenal i. 86 With what Impatience must the Muse behold The Wife by her procuring Husband sold? 1761Chron. in Ann. Reg. 94/1 To prevent their clergy from..declaiming on the procuring cause of earthquakes. 1837Russell in Liddon, etc. Life Pusey (1893) I. xvii. 407 Newman strongly insisted,..that the Atonement alone was the grand procuring and meritorious cause of our pardon. |