purchase

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

That loves the thing he can not purchase.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]

Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

His faults . . . hereditary Rather than purchased.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house. [1913 Webster]

The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth.— Gen. xxv. 10.[1913 Webster]

3.To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery. [1913 Webster]

One poor retiring minute . . . Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

A world who would not purchase with a bruise?— Milton.[1913 Webster]

4.To expiate by a fine or forfeit. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

5.(Law) (a) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance. --Blackstone. (b) To buy for a price. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

1.To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.— Ld. Berners.[1913 Webster]

2.To acquire wealth or property. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Sure our lawyers Would not purchase half so fast.— J. Webster.[1913 Webster]

1.The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

I'll . . . get meat to have thee, Or lose my life in the purchase.— Beau. & Fl.[1913 Webster]

2.The act of seeking and acquiring property. [1913 Webster]

3.The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent. [1913 Webster]

It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance.— Franklin.[1913 Webster]

4.That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition. --Chaucer. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

We met with little purchase upon this coast, except two small vessels of Golconda.— De Foe.[1913 Webster]

A beauty-waning and distressed widow . . . Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

A politician, to do great things, looks for a power— what our workmen call a purchase. --Burke.[1913 Webster]

7.(Law) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]