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 purchased
 (v.)購買(vbl.)購買

 Pur·chase v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purchased p. pr. & vb. n. Purchasing.]
 1. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
    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.
 4. To expiate by a fine or forfeit. [Obs.]
    Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.   --Shak.
 5. Law (a) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance. --Blackstone. (b) To buy for a price.
 6. To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; as, to purchase a cannon.