Give me the daggers

Shak., Macbeth, ii. 2. 52. At this Time Intelligence was given to the Lords that Richard, King of the Romans, had a Purpose to come into England. of confidential or coquettish conversation. The Purpose was so called because the figure exacted purpura forms a resolution. - 2. One who proposes or sets forth anything. purposive (pèr'pos-iv), a. [ purpose + -ivc.] 1. Having an aim or purpose; having an end in view; purposeful. [Rare.] We want a word to expre the adaptation of means to an end, whether involving consciousne or not; the word purpose will do very well, and the adjective purposive has already been used in this sense. W. K. Clifford , Lectures, II. 168. To ascertain the origin and progre of purposive action it seems, then, that we must look to the effects of pain rather than to those of pleasure. Encyc . Brit ., XX. 73. 2. Accomplishing some end; functional; useful in animal or vegetable economy: applied in biology to parts and organs which are not rudimentary or vestigial, and may therefore be regarded as teleological. purposivene (per'pos-iv-nes), n. The quality or character of being purposive, or designed for an end. [Rare.] that at stated intervals the couples should dance together through the doorway into an adjoining room, and, having made the circuit of that apartment, should return, unbosomed of any secrets they might have had to interchange, to the rest of the laughing company. It was a the discomfiture of mankind. figure obviously adopted for the triumph of coquetry and purpoyntt, n. An obsolete form of pourpoint . IMG:content-1326.jpg:[blocks in formation] Wherefore we must thinke he did it of purpose , by the odde sillable to giue greater grace to his meeter.