1to seek to obtain, acquire:
(
1293
) [...] le tenement ore demandé si enpurchasa un Adam sun pere
20-21 Ed I 393
(
1307
) Come l'onurable pere en Dieu, l'evesque de Nicole et le chapitre de l'eglise de meisme le lieu, soient enpurchaceant, devers nostre pere le Pape, le canonizement de seint Robert Grosseteste
i 1015
1
to seek to obtain, acquire:
(
s.xivm
) L[i] autre nounsavantz en tiele manere que qui lur aprendreit, il l'orreint volunters. Et qui ne lur offre, il ne s’enpurchacent pas
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