emptorn.

1604 C. Gibbon Order of Equalitie iv. 9 If there be not some analogie and equall proportion in the price betweene the venditor and the emptor, it is no better then oppression.

1697 T. Tresilian Tinners Greivances 3 As for Instance, If the Pewterers, Cloathiers,..or, Husbandmen themselves were confin'd to two, or four Times a year only to sell their Goods:..How soon would the Emptor take Notice of the Indigency of the Poor Mechanicks?

1704 I. Sharpe Animadversions E. Calamy's Abridgm. R. Baxter's Hist. To Rdr. sig. A2^v He need not put the Emptor to the charge of Two Volumes.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. 108 He had to utter the formula..i.e. to invite the emptor to strike the scale with the ingot.

1917 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 11 356 To name the book Modern Currency Reforms is almost certain to sell it to many an unwary emptor who will buy it under the impression that he is adding to his library an authoritative treatment of recent currency reform in the United States.

1972 G. M. Brown Greenvoe (1976) iii. 69 One half-guinea, I say. (This, you have always taught me, Uncle, is much more acceptable to the emptor than ten-and-six.)

1993 Times (Nexis) 1 May Both vendors and emptors wear cunning expressions on their faces.