emption

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin emptio, from emere (“to buy”).

Noun

emption (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The act of buying.
   • 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “emption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• pimento