Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PUR'POSE
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. – Is. xlvi. Eph. iii. Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem. – Acts xix.
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