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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Purchasing, Purches(s)ing, -yng, vbl. n. Also: purchais- and -inge. [ME and e.m.E. purchaceyng (14th c.), purchasyng (c1386), -ing.] Purchasing, obtaining, acquiring, gaining, in various senses of Purchas(e v.(1) 1375 Barb. ii 582.
For quhile he venesoun thaim brocht … And quhill thai went to the forray And swa thar purchesyng maid thai — c1520-c1535 Nisbet Peter ii 9.
Bot ye ar … a pepile of purchasing [L. populus acquisitionis](2) 1500 Acta Conc. II 444.
[The action] persewit be Kyntyre pursewant for purchaising of him … diverse tymes at the kingis hienes til pas with his writingis to the King of France 1587 St. A. Kirk S. 594.
In suting and purchessing of thame to be contractit be ony uther person by the ministrie of St. Androus(3) c1520-c1535 Nisbet 1 Thess. v 9.
For God puttit nocht vs into wrathe, bot into the purchasing of hele be our Lord Jesu Crist 1622-6 Bisset I 257/15.
Throw the purchessing be moyane of pairties of suspensionis of liquidate summes contened in decreittis c1650 Spalding I 20.
Anent purchessing the livetennandrie — 1561 Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 168/14.
Thai ar propiciatiouns or purchasingis of mercy and favour of God(4) c1590 Fowler II 87/18.
His subiects … quha … assisteth him in the purchessing of his conquests(5) 1424 Acts II 6/2 (see Purchas(e v. 4 b). 1498 Acta Conc. II 202.
Be the rasing and purchesing of ane exhorbitant grace expetative in the Court of Rome 1549–50 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. II 147. 1595–6 Misc. Spald. C. V 119.
For the purchesing, passing, and extracking of his majesties gift(6) 1489 Acta Conc. I 123/2.
Anent the purchessing of his benefice of Culter in the court of Rome 1496 Acts II 237/2.
Vpon the impetratioun and purchessing at the court of Rome beneficis … that mycht be … prouidit within the realme 1497-8 Acta Conc. II 145 (see Purchas(e v. 4 b). 1511 Reg. Privy S. I 346/1.
Purchesing 1540 Reg. Privy S. II. 531/1  (see Impetratioun n. 1 a).1548 Ex. Processes (Reg. H.) King's Advocate v. Provost of St. Giles (see Impetratioun n. 1 a).(7) 1475 Prestwick B. Rec. 26 (see Lordschip n. 6). 1559 Inverness Rec. I 32. 1584 Conv. Burghs I 196. 1587 Aberd. Council Lett. I 11.
Without purchessing of ony lordship in oppressing of thair nichtbouris 1603 Inverness Rec. II 12.
For purchessinge of lordschippis and mackinge of greit inimitie [pr. immitie] and vnkyndnes betwix them