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Purchase   /pˈərtʃəs/   Listen
noun
Purchase  n.  
1.
The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything. (Obs.) "I'll... get meat to have thee, Or lose my life in the purchase."
2.
The act of seeking and acquiring property.
3.
The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent. "It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance."
4.
That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition. "We met with little purchase upon this coast, except two small vessels of Golconda." "A beauty-waning and distressed widow... Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye."
5.
That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent. "The scrip was complete evidence of his right in the purchase."
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. "A politician, to do great things, looks for a power what our workmen call a purchase."
7.
(Law) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
Purchase criminal, robbery. (Obs.)
Purchase money, the money paid, or contracted to be paid, for anything bought.
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.


verb
Purchase  v. t.  (past & past part. purchased; pres. part. purchasing)  
1.
To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. "That loves the thing he can not purchase." "Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." "His faults... hereditary Rather than purchased."
2.
To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house. "The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth."
3.
To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery. "One poor retiring minute... Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends." "A world who would not purchase with a bruise?"
4.
To expiate by a fine or forfeit. (Obs.) "Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses."
5.
(Law)
(a)
To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.
(b)
To buy for a price.
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.


Purchase  v. i.  
1.
To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self. (Obs.) "Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage."
2.
To acquire wealth or property. (Obs.) "Sure our lawyers Would not purchase half so fast."





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"Purchase" Quotes from Famous Books



... little story Which will make the whole thing simple:— A bad painter bought a house, Altogether a bad business, For the house itself was bad: He however was quite smitten With his purchase, and would show it To a friend of his, keen-witted, But bad also: when they entered, The first room was like a kitchen, Black and bad:—"This room, you see, sir, Now is bad, but just permit me First to have it whitewashed over, Then shall my own hand with pictures ...
— The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria - A Drama of Early Christian Rome • Pedro Calderon de la Barca
... off with the old raiment; the new suit would announce to herself and to the world a Janet in whom were released all those longings hitherto disguised and suppressed, and now become insupportable! This was what the purchase meant, a change of existence as complete as that between the moth and the butterfly; and the realization of this fact, of the audacity she was resolved to commit made her hot as she gazed at the ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... West Indian planters, was indeed a lavish gift; but the public in general made little complaint on the score of its lavishness, and did not calculate too jealously the value of the sacrifice which the State was invited to make for the purchase of negro emancipation. Thirty years and more had to pass before the great American republic was able to free itself from the curse of slavery, and even then the late deliverance was only accomplished at the cost of a war which threatened for the season a permanent division ...
— A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4) • Justin McCarthy and Justin Huntly McCarthy
... possibly Ellsworth. To the need of such a library, however, he and others were not insensible. As chairman of a committee he reported a list of books "proper for the use of Congress," and advised their purchase. The report declared that certain authorities upon international law, treaties, negotiations, and other questions of legislation were absolutely indispensable, and that the want of them "was manifest in several Acts of Congress." But the Congress was not to be moved ...
— James Madison • Sydney Howard Gay
... of headquarters was due not to a diminishing love for New England, but to a deepening desire to be near my aging parents, whom I had persuaded, after much argument, to join in the purchase of a family homestead, in West Salem, Wisconsin, the little village from which we had all adventured some thirty ...
— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland


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