Bible Dictionaries
Purpose

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Proposal to another; discourse.

(2):

(n.) Instance; example.

(3):

(v. t.) To set forth; to bring forward.

(4):

(v. i.) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.

(5):

(n.) That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.

(6):

(v. t.) To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; - often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Purpose'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/purpose.html. 1828.