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1lawfinan.purchaser, buyer, acquirer of goods or property by means other than inheritance:
(
c.1292; MS: c.1300
)
le purchaceour (var. (G: s.xiv1/3) purchasour; (M: s.xivin) purchasur; (F: s.xiv3/3) porchasours; (W: s.xiv) porchaceor) si li soint [chateus] emblés
BRITT i 263
(
1346
)
ele fut purchaceour de cele, et ne mye tenante en dowere
YBB 20 i Ed III 465
(
1347-48
)
talliages soient levez [...] des foreins purchasours
Rot Parl1 ii 212
(
c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex
)
Nul chivaler, s’il est parfit, Serra marchant ne pourchaçour
GOWERMirour 23751
2instigator, inciter:
(
1327
)
le faux purchasour de cele prohibicion
Rot Parl2 106
joint purchaçur
lawfinan.joint purchaser, buyer, acquirer of goods or property by means other than inheritance, jointly with another:
(
1310
)
si jeo relesse moun joint purchaz a moun joint purchasour deinz age, il aliene tut entier jeo deinz age, et soy ousté, jeo n'avera qe la moieté par assise
YBB Ed II iv 140
purchaçur (c.1292)