Pur"chas*a*ble (?), a. Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained
for a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt.
Money being the counterbalance to all things purchasable by it, as
much as you take off from the value of money, so much you add to
the price of things exchanged.
Locke.
Pur"chase (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purchased (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Purchasing.] [OE. purchasen, porchacen, OF. porchacier, purchacier, to
pursue, to seek eagerly, F. pourchasser; OF. pour, por, pur, for (L.
pro) + chacier to pursue, to chase. See Chase.] 1. To pursue and
obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. Chaucer.
That loves the thing he can not purchase.
Spenser.
Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so
removed a dwelling.
Shak.
His faults . . . hereditary Rather than purchased.
Shak.
2. To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as,
to purchase land, or a house.
The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth.
Gen. xxv. 10.
3. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.;
as, to purchase favor with flattery.
One poor retiring minute . . . Would purchase thee a thousand
thousand friends.
Shak.
A world who would not purchase with a bruise?
Milton.