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† purˈprise, v. Sc. Obs.
[f. F. por-, purprendre (see purpresture, and cf. pourprise v.]
intr. To make a purpresture or illegal encroachment; trans. To enclose or encroach upon. Hence purprising = purprision.
1480Acta Dom. Concil. 74/2 Forfating of him..of his tennandry of Wester Corswod..for þe purprising apone þe said Schir Johne..in þe raising & vptakin of þe malis of þe said landis. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. ii. xxii. 159 He quha commits purpresture within the kings burgh, tines that quhilk he wrangouslie bigges, or purprises.
So † purprise n. [cf. pourprise n.], an illegal enclosure, an encroachment; = next.
1448Perpriss [see next]. 1531in Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 100 To enquere of the purpresture and purpryses wt other comen noysauns. |