purposeth

Verb

purpose (third-person singular simple present purposes, present participle purposing, simple past and past participle purposed)

1. (transitive) To have or set as one's purpose or aim; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.
   • 1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter xxxvi, leaf 235v
     Soo was Alysander purposed to ryde to london by the coūceille of sire Tristram to syre Launcelot /
     "So was Alisander purposed to ride to London, by the counsel of Sir Tristram, to Sir Launcelot."

   Synonyms:

   aim, intend, mean, plan, set out

2. (intransitive) To have (an) intention, purpose, or design; to intend; to mean.
   • Upon my ſoul, / You may beleeve him: nor did he ere purpoſe / To me but nobly;[…]1622 May 24 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Prophetesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […]...

   Synonyms:

   intend

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To discourse.
   • Whom ouertaking, ſhe in merry ſort
     Them gan to bord, and purpoſe diuerſly,[…]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 366

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