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Purchase \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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Purchase \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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Purchase \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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