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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

find in en · VERB

Meanings

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see find, in.
  2. (historical, transitive) To supply (someone) with (something).
    • Refused! refused by a teacher, picked up by advertisement, at an annual salary of five pounds payable at indefinite periods, and ‘found’ in food and lodging like the very boys themselves […]. 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
    • ‘But only think how good it is in her to take care of Miss Wynne, for she is a very distant relation, and so poor that, as Miss Halifax told me, her Mother was obliged to find her in Cloathes.’ c. 1792–3, Jane Austen, ‘Catharine, or The Bower’, Juvenilia

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
found in Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
found in Tense=Past lexicographic
finds in Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
finding in Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic