emption
nounEtymology From Latin emptio, from emere (“to buy”).
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Obsolete The act of buying; purchase.
- There is a diſpute among the lawyers, whe ther Glaucus's exchanging the golden armour with the brazen one of Tydides, was emption or commutation.1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures:
- After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
- Derived terms
- emptional