·noun Instance; example.
II. Purpose ·noun Proposal to another; discourse.
III. Purpose ·vt To set forth; to bring forward.
IV. Purpose ·vi To have a purpose or intention; to Discourse.
V. Purpose ·noun 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.
VI. Purpose ·vt 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.