Purposing

My parents still recycle more than anyone else I know, just because reusing or re-purposing is cheaper. ❋ Unknown (2010)

… Its origin and purposing is not at this point known. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It hath reached me, O auspicious King, the director, the right-guiding, lord of the rede which is benefiting and of deeds fair-seeming and worthy celebrating, that the Sultan fell upon the Sharper with his sword purposing to slay him; but the Chamberlains and the Eunuchs prevented him saying, "O our lord, kill him not until his falsehood or his fact shall have been made manifest to thee." ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Some, in fact, do see this "purposing" as a kind of given - that we fit into a plan God has already designed for us (predestination). ❋ Unknown (2010)

The museum's re-vamped exhibition floors represent a mix of the old and the new, re-purposing portions of the core installation "Behind the Screen," from MMI's previous incarnation, and displaying some 14,000 individual pieces from an in-house collection of film, television and digital media technology, tools, memorabilia and ephemera. ❋ Bruce Bennett (2011)

Instead of purposing a coherent foreign policy, the Egyptian government is using Israel as a political football to distract and placate the masses in the short-term, at the expense of its long-term interests. ❋ Alon Ben-Meir (2011)

The first 4 are now in the first stages of re-purposing (being made into aprons or night dresses or other things) and the 2nd 4 are getting a little more wear. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We need the regulatory relief this summer before school starts, instead of a new bureaucratic process that the Department of Education is purposing that could take many months to create. ❋ Anne L. Bryant (2011)

The group makes an eclectic variety of furniture, from a funky shaggy lamp to a lounge chair with a quilt-block pattern — all masterfully re-purposing materials that were once considered waste. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What Dr. Kling is purposing is that Federal employees live like those in a third world country. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What sort of changes are you purposing that will allow me to afford health care now that I'm unemployed? ❋ Rabid1st (2009)

Most of us have been re-purposing cardboard boxes since childhood, transforming them from containers for transporting objects into forts or secret hiding places. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How about purposing a new law, to cancel all marriage rights, unless same sex married couples get the same rights. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The book also has lots of information on sustainable living, recipes, craft projects, and information on DIY greening like re-purposing old clothes or making your own beauty products. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I am a great believer in second-hand for clothing, and feel good re-purposing things, like making cloth bags or fun throw pillows out of favourite, outgrown t-shirts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They re-purpose set pieces and also have a re-purposing program set up with Habitat for Humanity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Person 1: “Hey man. Say do you ever wonder what your purpose is?” Person 2: “i have [wondered] for so long. [i understand] now that i have no purpose. i have no reason for dealing with all my suffering” Person 1: “[i-]“ ❋ Life_is_empty (2021)

Why...? Because I have a purpose ❋ Searching... (2006)

"I know he hated that [vase] my old boyfriend gave me, so he like [dropped it] and was all [sorry about it] and said his hands were wet, well you Know that was on purpose." ❋ Nightfire (2006)

"A [kitchen sink] to you, is not a kitchen sink to me, [okay friend]?" (In which [something happened] to him that involves a kitchen sink, so therefore that sprouts a purpose for him.) ❋ .vexation. (2018)

[Princeton] [spent] the whole show looking for [his purpose]. ❋ MusicalGal (corny, But Ohwell) (2009)

[I dont know] how [I know], but I'm gonna find my [purpose]. ❋ Duke Priales (2009)

Today was a [purpose] day at [school]. That [lesson] was purpose. ❋ Feltch McFlop (2009)

My [absence] wasn't [purposeful] ❋ Julie (2004)

[Writing a definition] is [purposeful] in a way that many people [will read] the definition. ❋ Mike_vwdriver (2009)

[Bieber] Fan: "[Imma] going to get that new Purpose album!" Me: "[F*** You] Retard!" ❋ AnonymousDictionarist (2015)