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
i 263
(
1346
)
ele fut purchaceour de cele, et ne mye tenante en dowere
20 i Ed III 465
(
1347-48
)
talliages soient levez [...] des foreins purchasours
ii 212
(
c.1360-79;
MS: s.xivex
)
Nul chivaler, s’il est parfit, Serra marchant ne pourchaçour
23751
2instigator, inciter:
(
1327
)
le faux purchasour de cele prohibicion
106
purchaçur (c.1292)