emption

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English

Etymology

From Latin emptio, from emere (“to buy”).

Noun

emption (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The act of buying.
    • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures:
      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.
    • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
      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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “emption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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