furnish

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  1. transitive verb To equip with what is needed, especially to provide furniture for.
  2. transitive verb To supply; give: "The story of Orpheus has furnished Pope with an illustration” (Thomas Bulfinch).
  3. Syntax Note
    Synonyms: furnish, equip, outfit, appoint, accouter
    These verbs mean to provide with what is necessary for an activity or a purpose: furnished the team with new uniforms; equip a car with snow tires; had to outfit the children for summer camp; a library that was appointed in leather; knights who were accoutered for battle.

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  • One of the very first rooms I shall furnish will be your little bedroom, my Judy And then I can sit close to you every night. —  A Young Mutineer
  • O what constraining motives of love and grace doth the gospel furnish, and the rarest cords to bind on Christ’s yoke upon a reasonable soul,—cords of the most unparalleled love I shall only add unto all this, that as herein Christ hath expressed or completes the expression of his love upon his part; so upon our part it becomes us to take on his yoke, in testimony of our thankfulness. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • Immediately the leading ice company of the neighboring town contracted with me for all the ice I could furnish, and the flood-gates of affluence began slowly to rise The earliest, and certainly one of the greatest, benefits which came to me from this bequest from the unhistoric past was the new energy and vigor with which my mind and body were now infused. —  My Terminal Moraine 1892
  • We can easily supply Bokhara with many things the Russians now furnish, and with all Indian goods cheaper by the Indus than the Ganges; but what the Bokharians are to send us in return I do not well see, except turquoises, lapis lazuli, and the ducats they receive from Russia. —  A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II
  • He engaged an upholsterer by the King's command to furnish, at his Majesty's expense, the apartments, as the Baron de Gondy, he said, had long since sold and eaten up all the furniture. —  Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15)
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English furnisshen, from Old French fournir, fourniss-, of Germanic origin; see per1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English furnysshen, from Old French furniss-, fourniss-, stem of certain parts of furnir, fornir, fournir, French fournir = Provencal fornir, earlier formir, fromir = Spanish Portuguese fornir = Italian fornire, furnish, from Old High German frumjan, perform, provide, from fruma, Middle High German vrume, vrum, utility, gain, akin to Anglo-Saxon fremu, freme, profit, advantage, fremian, fremman, promote, perform, etc., whence modern English frame: see frame.
  2. from furnish, v.
 

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