enpurchacer (1293)

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enpurchacer (1293)

  FEW:  *captiare *2/i,319a Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF:  chacier 1 (enporchacier)  DMF: TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:
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v.a.

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

v.refl.

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  30
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