Purchase (Hastings' Dictionary)

To purchase (from Old Fr. pcvr- chasscr, i.e. junir 'for' and chasscr 'to chase') is to pursue after a thing, hence to aciiuire. The sense is now narrowed to acfiuiring by payment. For the wider meaning cf. Alelvill, ihan/, p. 42, ' Mr Andro Melvill . . . with grait diliicultie pur- chossit leave of the kirk and magistrates of Gcnev . . . and takin jorney cam hamwart ' ; Knox, First lilast (Arber's reprint, p. 7). 'The veritie oi God is of that nature, that at one time or at other, it will pourchaco to it selfe audience ' ; Article xxv 174 PURGE PURIM • They that receave thera unworthyly purchase to them selves damnation.' This wider meaning is also Been in Ac 20-" ' tlie church of God wliicli he hath purcliased with his own blood' (»/» Tre/jieTrot^craTo) ; and in 1 Ti 3'^ ' Thej- that have used the oHice of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good de- gree ' {irepnroioui'Tai, RV ' gain '). Cf. Ps 84' in metre — 'The swallow also for herself Hath purchased a nest.' J. Hastings.