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Pur"chase (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purchased (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Purchasing.] [OE. purchasen, porchacen, OF. porchacier, purchacier, to pursue, to seek eagerly, F. pourchasser; OF. pour, por, pur, for (L. pro) + chacier to pursue, to chase. See Chase.] 1. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. Chaucer.
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That loves the thing he can not purchase. Spenser.
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Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling. Shak.
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His faults . . . hereditary
Rather than purchased. Shak.
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2. To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house.
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The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth. Gen. xxv. 10.
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3. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.
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One poor retiring minute . . .
Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends. Shak.
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A world who would not purchase with a bruise? Milton.
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4. To expiate by a fine or forfeit. [Obs.]
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Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses. Shak.
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5. (Law) (a) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance. Blackstone. (b) To buy for a price.
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6. To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; as, to purchase a cannon.
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Pur"chase, v. i. 1. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self. [Obs.]
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Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage. Ld. Berners.
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2. To acquire wealth or property. [Obs.]
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Sure our lawyers
Would not purchase half so fast. J. Webster.
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Pur"chase (?; 48), n. [OE. purchds, F. pourchas eager pursuit. See Purchase, v. t.] 1. The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything. [Obs.]
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I'll . . . get meat to have thee,
Or lose my life in the purchase. Beau. & Fl.
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2. The act of seeking and acquiring property.
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3. The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
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It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance. Franklin.
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4. That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition. Chaucer. B. Jonson.
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We met with little purchase upon this coast, except two small vessels of Golconda. De Foe.
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A beauty-waning and distressed widow . . .
Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye. Shak.
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5. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent. “The scrip was complete evidence of his right in the purchase.” Wheaton.
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6. Any mechanical hold, or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan, and the like; also, the apparatus, tackle, or device by which the advantage is gained.
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A politician, to do great things, looks for a power -- what our workmen call a purchase. Burke.
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7. (Law) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement. Blackstone.
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Purchase criminal, robbery. [Obs.] Spenser. -- Purchase money, the money paid, or contracted to be paid, for anything bought. Berkeley. -- Worth [so many] years' purchase, or At [so many] years' purchase, a phrase by which the value or cost of a thing is expressed in the length of time required for the income to amount to the purchasing price; as, he bought the estate at a twenty years' purchase. To say one's life is not worth a day's purchase in the same as saying one will not live a day, or is in imminent peril.
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