emption

English

Etymology

From Latin emptio, from emere (“to buy”).

Noun

emption (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The act of buying; purchase.
   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures:

     There is a diſpute among the lawyers, whe ther Glaucus's exchanging the golden armour with the brazen one of Tydides, was emption or commutation.

   • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:

     After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.

Derived terms

• emptional

References

• “emption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• pimento