purchasern.

Brit.

/ˈpəːtʃᵻsə/, U.S.

/ˈpərtʃəsər/

Forms: Middle English perchaser, Middle English porchasoure, Middle English pourchasour, Middle English pourchassoure, Middle English purchaceour, Middle English purchasour, Middle English purchasoure, Middle English purchasowre, Middle English purchasser, Middle English purchassour, Middle English purchasure, Middle English purchesour, Middle English purchesoure, Middle English purchesur, 1500s purchaiser, 1500s purchazer, 1500s purchessor, 1500s– purchaser, 1500s– purchasor (now rare), 1700s purcasser; Scottish pre-1700 purchasere, pre-1700 purchesar, pre-1700 purchesir, pre-1700 purchessair, pre-1700 purchessar, pre-1700 purchesser, pre-1700 purchessour, pre-1700 1700s– purchaser.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French purchaçur , pourchasseur ; purchase v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman purchaçur, purchaceour, purchaçour, purchasor, purchasour, purchassour, purchazour, purchacer and Middle French pourchasseur (French pourchasseur ) person who seeks to obtain something (13th cent. in Old French), buyer (a1377 or earlier in Anglo-Norman), instigator (a1377 or earlier in Anglo-Norman; < purchacer , etc. purchase v. + -ur , -our -our suffix; compare -er suffix²), and partly < purchase v. + -er suffix¹.With the form purchasor compare -or suffix. Attested earlier as a surname, Thom's le Purchasour (1336), although this may reflect the Anglo-Norman rather than the Middle English word.

†1.

a. A person who acquires or aims to acquire wealth or possessions. Obsolete.In quot. c1387-95 with reference to a Sergeant of Law, perhaps with the meaning ‘conveyancer’. It is unclear, however, whether he is acting as an agent for another person, or for his own benefit.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > one who obtains or acquires > one who acquires possessions

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. i. 20 Where is the wyse man? where is the writere or man of lawe? Wher is the purchasour [L. conquisitor] of this world?

c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 318 Of fees and robes hadde he many oon; So greet a purchasour [v.rr. purchaceour, purchassour] was nowher noon.

a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 1105 (MED) Y se men þat purchasours [v.r. pourchasourys] are, Þat coueyte catel with sorwe & kare.

a1450 Partonope of Blois (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1912) 9465 (MED) Syth I haue lyved as a sowdyor, A poure man, but no purchasoure [v.r. porchasoure].

a1500 in A. Zettersten Middle Eng. Lapidary (1968) 31 (MED) A man that bereth her [sc. helitrope] is a grete perchaser; She holdeþ a man in grete hele & makeþ hym of grete fame.

c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1903) II. 1 Cor. i. 20 Quhar is the purchasere of this warld?

1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 7^v Thinke you some lawyers could be such purchasers, if all their pleas were short, and their proceedings Iustice and conscience?

b. Mining. = caver n. 1. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 4 Or Purchasers that Miners from their way, To their Wash-troughs do either stop or stay.

1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales 95 That no Purchasors shall let or stop any Miners from any Wash-trough at any time.

1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Q2^v Purcassers, poor People that daily go to the Mines, with their Hammers, Bags, or Penny-wiskets, searching in the Deads that are daily drawn and tem'd on the Hillocks, for any Bits of Ore that they can find therein.

2. Law. A person who acquires property, esp. land, in any way other than by inheritance. Now rare (chiefly historical).

ΘΚΠ

society > law > transfer of property > [noun] > one who acquires land by a single title

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a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 9453 (MED) Also with purchasours ryȝt so hyt fareþ, Alle þat þey bygge, here eyres bareþ; A purchasoure may beye þyng, & with lawe, with-oute any dede of wrong or sawe.

c1465 in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archeol. Soc. (1900) 23 200 (MED) These ben for certayn all the pedegrees and mean estates in substance of all inheritours, purchasours, and occupiers of the manor of Estchaldefeld.

?a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1866) 44 (MED) Make thy chartyr on warantyse To thyne heyres & assygnes all-so; This shall a wyse purchasser doo.

a1547 in J. R. Boyle Early Hist. Town & Port of Hedon (1895) App. p. lxxi Yf anye suche inherytor or purchessor absent them selfes, [etc.].

1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. viii. §539. 235 If husband and wife be joynt purchasers unto them, and unto the heirs of the husband of lands.

1657 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 129 A purchaser of this or any other delinquent lands.

a1733 Raymond Reports (1743) 953 If a purchaser of an advowson in fee-simple, before any presentment, suffer an usurpation.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xiv. 220 The first purchasor..is he who first acquired the estate to his family, whether the same was transferred to him by sale, or by gift, or by any other method, except only that of descent.

1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 106 § 1 (Act for Amendment of Law of Inheritance) The Words ‘the Purchaser’ shall mean the Person who last acquired the Land otherwise than by Descent, or than by any Escheat, Partition, or Inclosure.

1860 Times 14 July 11/1 That document stated that the transfer of a barony by tenure must be confined to the blood of the relations of the first purchaser.

1932 Yale Law Jrnl. 42 101 Only those collaterals who were of the blood of the ‘first purchaser’ of the land could inherit.

1984 E. A. Martin Dict. Law 292/2 Purchaser, (in land law) any person who acquires land otherwise than by mere operation of law. Thus a purchaser may be a mortgagee or one to whom land is given or bequeathed as well as one who buys land for money.

†3. A person who acquires something immaterial; a person who brings about an event or state of affairs. Obsolete.Frequently difficult to distinguish from figurative uses of sense 4; see also purchase v. 6a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > agent or person who causes

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occasioner?c1452

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purchaser1548

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authoress1592

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establisher1812

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1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus in Paraphr. New Test. I. Acts vii. f. xxixv Al this while knewe not they that god..than had sent them this capitaine and purchaser of libertie, and gyuer of lyfe euerlasting.

1653 T. Whitfield Treat. Sinfull Men vi. 25 Is he not the Author and purchasor of peace?

1684 J. Harington tr. Horace Odes & Epodon vi. 59 Dear purchasers of shame.

1704 D. Alexander Funeral Serm. 12 Christ is the Purchaser, the Author, and the Finisher of our Salvation.

1799 H. Draper Lect. Church Catech. ii. 21 We are to contemplate the great purchaser and giver of every spiritual blessing, the Lord Jesus Christ.

4. A person who purchases something with money (or an equivalent); a buyer. Now the usual sense. Also figurative and in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun]

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vendee1547

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bargainee1598

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1584 R. Wilson Three Ladies of London ii. sig. Bi^v You Fraud shall be my rent-gatherer, my leater of Leases and my purchaser of Land.

1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts ii. i. sig. D^v I must haue all men sellers, And I the only Purchaser.

1676 G. Fox People of God in Scorn called Quakers 11 God hath so honoured all men, in giving his Son to be a Mediator, and a Redeemer, and Purchaser with his Blood of Man and Women out of Sin and Evil.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 511. ¶4 The Purchaser..pays down her Price very chearfully.

1778 F. Burney Let. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) 173 I have heard many purchasers of the Work complain about the coarseness of the paper.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 371 He was instantly discerned to be a fit purchaser of every thing that nobody else would buy.

1876 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 599/2 I walked through the crowds of purchasers and salespeople.

1885 ‘M. Field’ Father's Trag. i. iii. 23 Ye cursèd purchasers of manhood's fame!

1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 129 Plenty of things are not for sale until a purchaser comes.

1937 Life 13 Sept. 105/1 (advt.) Today many motor car manufacturers completely equip their cars with Safety Glass..at no extra cost to the purchaser.

1992 R. Harrington Markets & Dealers (BNC) 69 The Bank was a net purchaser of index-linked stocks.

Compounds

purchaser–provider adj. (also purchaser/provider) originally U.S. involving or regarding the relationship between the organization which provides a service (esp. health care) and the organization which pays for the service.

ΚΠ

1985 Kentucky Business Ledger Feb. 23 IMX also supplies management services to staff, organize, manage and support purchaser/provider networks in a community.

2001 K. Eagar et al. Health Planning: Austral. Perspectives ii. 45 In purchaser-provider split models, separate health purchasers are given the task of ‘purchasing’ health services on behalf of specific populations.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	purchaser
释义	purchasern. Brit. /ˈpəːtʃᵻsə/, U.S. /ˈpərtʃəsər/ Forms: Middle English perchaser, Middle English porchasoure, Middle English pourchasour, Middle English pourchassoure, Middle English purchaceour, Middle English purchasour, Middle English purchasoure, Middle English purchasowre, Middle English purchasser, Middle English purchassour, Middle English purchasure, Middle English purchesour, Middle English purchesoure, Middle English purchesur, 1500s purchaiser, 1500s purchazer, 1500s purchessor, 1500s– purchaser, 1500s– purchasor (now rare), 1700s purcasser; Scottish pre-1700 purchasere, pre-1700 purchesar, pre-1700 purchesir, pre-1700 purchessair, pre-1700 purchessar, pre-1700 purchesser, pre-1700 purchessour, pre-1700 1700s– purchaser. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French purchaçur , pourchasseur ; purchase v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman purchaçur, purchaceour, purchaçour, purchasor, purchasour, purchassour, purchazour, purchacer and Middle French pourchasseur (French pourchasseur ) person who seeks to obtain something (13th cent. in Old French), buyer (a1377 or earlier in Anglo-Norman), instigator (a1377 or earlier in Anglo-Norman; < purchacer , etc. purchase v. + -ur , -our -our suffix; compare -er suffix²), and partly < purchase v. + -er suffix¹.With the form purchasor compare -or suffix. Attested earlier as a surname, Thom's le Purchasour (1336), although this may reflect the Anglo-Norman rather than the Middle English word. †1. a. A person who acquires or aims to acquire wealth or possessions. Obsolete.In quot. c1387-95 with reference to a Sergeant of Law, perhaps with the meaning ‘conveyancer’. It is unclear, however, whether he is acting as an agent for another person, or for his own benefit. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > one who obtains or acquires > one who acquires possessions purchaserc1384 magpie1903 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. i. 20 Where is the wyse man? where is the writere or man of lawe? Wher is the purchasour [L. conquisitor] of this world? c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 318 Of fees and robes hadde he many oon; So greet a purchasour [v.rr. purchaceour, purchassour] was nowher noon. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 1105 (MED) Y se men þat purchasours [v.r. pourchasourys] are, Þat coueyte catel with sorwe & kare. a1450 Partonope of Blois (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1912) 9465 (MED) Syth I haue lyved as a sowdyor, A poure man, but no purchasoure [v.r. porchasoure]. a1500 in A. Zettersten Middle Eng. Lapidary (1968) 31 (MED) A man that bereth her [sc. helitrope] is a grete perchaser; She holdeþ a man in grete hele & makeþ hym of grete fame. c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1903) II. 1 Cor. i. 20 Quhar is the purchasere of this warld? 1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 7^v Thinke you some lawyers could be such purchasers, if all their pleas were short, and their proceedings Iustice and conscience? b. Mining. = caver n. 1. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 4 Or Purchasers that Miners from their way, To their Wash-troughs do either stop or stay. 1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales 95 That no Purchasors shall let or stop any Miners from any Wash-trough at any time. 1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Q2^v Purcassers, poor People that daily go to the Mines, with their Hammers, Bags, or Penny-wiskets, searching in the Deads that are daily drawn and tem'd on the Hillocks, for any Bits of Ore that they can find therein. 2. Law. A person who acquires property, esp. land, in any way other than by inheritance. Now rare (chiefly historical). ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > [noun] > one who acquires land by a single title purchasera1400 takerc1450 singular successora1646 a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 9453 (MED) Also with purchasours ryȝt so hyt fareþ, Alle þat þey bygge, here eyres bareþ; A purchasoure may beye þyng, & with lawe, with-oute any dede of wrong or sawe. c1465 in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archeol. Soc. (1900) 23 200 (MED) These ben for certayn all the pedegrees and mean estates in substance of all inheritours, purchasours, and occupiers of the manor of Estchaldefeld. ?a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1866) 44 (MED) Make thy chartyr on warantyse To thyne heyres & assygnes all-so; This shall a wyse purchasser doo. a1547 in J. R. Boyle Early Hist. Town & Port of Hedon (1895) App. p. lxxi Yf anye suche inherytor or purchessor absent them selfes, [etc.]. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. viii. §539. 235 If husband and wife be joynt purchasers unto them, and unto the heirs of the husband of lands. 1657 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 129 A purchaser of this or any other delinquent lands. a1733 Raymond Reports (1743) 953 If a purchaser of an advowson in fee-simple, before any presentment, suffer an usurpation. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xiv. 220 The first purchasor..is he who first acquired the estate to his family, whether the same was transferred to him by sale, or by gift, or by any other method, except only that of descent. 1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 106 § 1 (Act for Amendment of Law of Inheritance) The Words ‘the Purchaser’ shall mean the Person who last acquired the Land otherwise than by Descent, or than by any Escheat, Partition, or Inclosure. 1860 Times 14 July 11/1 That document stated that the transfer of a barony by tenure must be confined to the blood of the relations of the first purchaser. 1932 Yale Law Jrnl. 42 101 Only those collaterals who were of the blood of the ‘first purchaser’ of the land could inherit. 1984 E. A. Martin Dict. Law 292/2 Purchaser, (in land law) any person who acquires land otherwise than by mere operation of law. Thus a purchaser may be a mortgagee or one to whom land is given or bequeathed as well as one who buys land for money. †3. A person who acquires something immaterial; a person who brings about an event or state of affairs. Obsolete.Frequently difficult to distinguish from figurative uses of sense 4; see also purchase v. 6a. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > agent or person who causes causec1374 authora1382 workerc1384 causerc1386 begetterc1390 causac1420 workera1425 upraiserc1440 inspirerc1450 procurer1451 occasioner?c1452 procurator1486 purchaser1548 authorera1556 wielder1570 agent1571 effector1586 effecter1591 authoress1592 effectress1601 effectrix1611 performer1616 inducera1631 causeress1631 causatrix1649 father-in-law1650 pregnatress1651 matter1686 energizer1804 establisher1812 bringer1866 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus in Paraphr. New Test. I. Acts vii. f. xxixv Al this while knewe not they that god..than had sent them this capitaine and purchaser of libertie, and gyuer of lyfe euerlasting. 1653 T. Whitfield Treat. Sinfull Men vi. 25 Is he not the Author and purchasor of peace? 1684 J. Harington tr. Horace Odes & Epodon vi. 59 Dear purchasers of shame. 1704 D. Alexander Funeral Serm. 12 Christ is the Purchaser, the Author, and the Finisher of our Salvation. 1799 H. Draper Lect. Church Catech. ii. 21 We are to contemplate the great purchaser and giver of every spiritual blessing, the Lord Jesus Christ. 4. A person who purchases something with money (or an equivalent); a buyer. Now the usual sense. Also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] buyerc1200 chapman?c1225 vendee1547 purchaser1584 bargainee1598 demander1602 emptor1604 chap1701 tenderee1883 consumer1897 1584 R. Wilson Three Ladies of London ii. sig. Bi^v You Fraud shall be my rent-gatherer, my leater of Leases and my purchaser of Land. 1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts ii. i. sig. D^v I must haue all men sellers, And I the only Purchaser. 1676 G. Fox People of God in Scorn called Quakers 11 God hath so honoured all men, in giving his Son to be a Mediator, and a Redeemer, and Purchaser with his Blood of Man and Women out of Sin and Evil. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 511. ¶4 The Purchaser..pays down her Price very chearfully. 1778 F. Burney Let. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) 173 I have heard many purchasers of the Work complain about the coarseness of the paper. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 371 He was instantly discerned to be a fit purchaser of every thing that nobody else would buy. 1876 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 599/2 I walked through the crowds of purchasers and salespeople. 1885 ‘M. Field’ Father's Trag. i. iii. 23 Ye cursèd purchasers of manhood's fame! 1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 129 Plenty of things are not for sale until a purchaser comes. 1937 Life 13 Sept. 105/1 (advt.) Today many motor car manufacturers completely equip their cars with Safety Glass..at no extra cost to the purchaser. 1992 R. Harrington Markets & Dealers (BNC) 69 The Bank was a net purchaser of index-linked stocks. Compounds purchaser–provider adj. (also purchaser/provider) originally U.S. involving or regarding the relationship between the organization which provides a service (esp. health care) and the organization which pays for the service. ΚΠ 1985 Kentucky Business Ledger Feb. 23 IMX also supplies management services to staff, organize, manage and support purchaser/provider networks in a community. 2001 K. Eagar et al. Health Planning: Austral. Perspectives ii. 45 In purchaser-provider split models, separate health purchasers are given the task of ‘purchasing’ health services on behalf of specific populations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1384
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