find in

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). [from 18th c.]
   • 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 […] .