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单词 purprestor
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purprestorn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; probably modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: purpresture n., -or suffix.
Etymology: < purprest- (in purpresture n.) + -or suffix, probably after Law French; compare Anglo-Norman purprestour, purprestur person who encroaches (c1290 in Britton).
Law. Obsolete. rare.
A person who commits purpresture.
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1603 J. Stow Suruay of London (new ed.) 425 This common field, I say being sometime the beauty of this City on that part, is so incroched vpon by building of filthy Cottages, and with other purprestors inclosures and Laystalles.
1865 F. M. Nichols tr. Britton II. 379 Purprestour, a purprestor, one who usurps or encroaches.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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