purchase vb. (3 properly a legal term)
1.
to exert
oneself, strive Tim. III. ii.
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“that I should the day before for a
little part, and undo a great deal of
honour.”
2.
to acquire, obtain,
gain
Tp. IV. i. 14
“as my gift and thine
own acquisition Worthily p-'d,”
LLL. III. i. 28
“How hast thou p-d this
experience?,”
R2 I. iii. 282
“I sent thee forth to
honour,”
Tit. II. iii. 275
“Do this, and us thy .
. . friends,”
Cym. II. iii. 93
“purchasing but
trouble.”
3.
to acquire otherwise
than by inheritance or descent
2H4 IV. v. 198
“what in me was p-'d,
Falls upon thee in a more fairer
sort,”
Ant. I. iv. 14
“His faults . . .
hereditary Rather than purchas'”
