(old).—To procure; to PANDER (q.v.): cf. BREAK (or BROKE) = to deflower.

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  1598.  SHAKESPEARE, All’s Well that Ends Well, iii. 5.

        And BROKES with all that can, in such a suit,
Corrupt the tender honour of a maid.

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  1612.  BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, The Coxcomb, ii. And I shall hate my name, worse than the matter, for this base BROKING.

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  1655.  FANSHAWE, Lusiad, ix. 44.

        But we do want a certain necessary
Woman, to BROKE between them, Cupid said.

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