find in

present singular third person finds in · participle present finding in · participle past found in · past found in

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see find, in.
2. historicaltransitiveTo supply (someone) with (something).First known use 18th c.

   ‘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.’

   c. 1792–3, Jane Austen, ‘Catharine, or The Bower’, Juvenilia

   1 more example

   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 […].

   1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC