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English

Verb

find in (third-person singular simple present finds in, present participle finding in, simple past and past participle found in)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see find,‎ in.
  2. (transitive, now historical) To supply (someone) with (something).
    • c. 1792–3, Jane Austen, ‘Catharine, or The Bower’, Juvenilia:
      ‘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.’
    • 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1839, →OCLC:
      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 .
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