v. t.
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 ]
The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth. Gen. xxv. 10. [ 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 ]
Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage. Ld. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sure our lawyers
Would not purchase half so fast. J. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. purchds, F. pourchas eager pursuit. See Purchase, v. t. ]
I'll . . . get meat to have thee,
Or lose my life in the purchase. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]
It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance. Franklin. [ 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 ]
A politician, to do great things, looks for a power -- what our workmen call a purchase. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
Purchase criminal,
Purchase money,
Worth [ so many ] years' purchase,
At [ so many ] years' purchase
not worth a day's purchase in the same as saying one will not live a day, or is in imminent peril.
n.