ppl. a. [irreg. f. BOUGHT ppl. a. by assimilation to foughten.] = BOUGHT ppl. a. Used poet. for the sake of meter; otherwise only dial. and in U.S. in application to purchased as opposed to home-made articles.
1793. Coleridge, Robespierre, III. Wks. III. 36. The Commune’s villain friendship, And Henriot’s boughten succours.
1805. Southey, Madoc in W., xiv. Whose faith Reck’d not of boughten prayers, nor passing bell.
1825. J. Neal, Bro. Jonathan, I. 131. Leather shoes, and white, ‘boughten’ stockings.
