'Purchased' definitions:
Definition of 'Purchased'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [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]
Words containing 'Purchased'
- Purchasable,
- Purchase,
- Purchaser,
- Purchasing,
- Hire purchase,
- Purchase criminal,
- Purchase money,
- To rig a purchase,
- Whip purchase,
- Year's purchase,
- louisiana purchase,
- purchase agreement,
- purchase contract,
- purchase order,
- purchase price,
- purchasing agent,
- purchasing department,
- purchasing power,
- At so many years' purchase,
- Gun tackle purchase,
- Hire and purchase agreement,
- Hire purchase agreement,
- hire-purchase,
- not worth a day's purchase,
- stock purchase plan,
- Worth so many years' purchase,
- stock-purchase warrant