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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buy.

Etymologies

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buy + -eth

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Examples

  • After a while we were joined by our other sister, the procuratrix, who goeth out every morning and buyeth all we require for the day and night; and we continued in such condition till this last night.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Know, O Wazir, that when a sovereign buyeth a female slave, he knoweth neither her rank nor her lineage and thus he cannot tell if she be of simple origin that he may abstain from her, or of gentle strain that he may be intimate in her companionship.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • This woman buyeth of me a ducat-worth of meat every morning, paying ready money, and never misseth a single day.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Allah, I will not stir hence till I see how much this girl fetcheth, and know who buyeth her!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Dost thou not know that whoso buyeth aught without examining it, falleth into error and becometh like unto the weaver?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • To whosoever lusteth and buyeth, they sell it, but whoso buyeth not, none forceth him to buy; so that the fault is of him who buyeth, especially if he know the harmfulness of that merchandise.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • On the contrary, by the sole selling of the native commodities abroad, and sole buying the foreign commodities upon the place, they raise the price of those, and abate the price of these, to the disadvantage of the foreigner: for where but one selleth, the merchandise is the dearer; and where but one buyeth, the cheaper: such corporations therefore are no other than monopolies, though they would be very profitable for a

    Leviathan 2007

  • And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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