Buying

vbl. sb. [f. BUY v. + -ING¹.]

  1.  The action of the verb BUY; purchase.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 362. Me ne mei … nout two þongede scheon habben, wiðuten buggunge.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 25. Þei han desceyued hem in byynge of here catel.

1509–10.  Act 1 Hen. VIII., xx. § 1. That they coste at the firste byeng or achate.

1528.  in W. H. Turner, Select. Rec. Oxford, 60. Buyings and sellings by retaile.

1713.  Guardian, No. 76, ¶ 12. We never have so good a revenue by buying as by lending.

1816.  Jane Austen, Emma, II. iii. 150. Going on with their buyings.

  b.  attrib.

c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 36. Byynge place, or place of byynge, emptorium.

1727.  De Foe, Eng. Tradesm. (1841), I. viii. 58. His buying-part requires … a good judgment.

1883.  Pall Mall Gaz., 30 Nov., 5/2. Buying orders were received.

  † 2.  Theol. Redemption. Obs.

a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter cxxix[xxx]. 7. At Laverd it es merci, Fulli bying at him.

c. 1325.  Metr. Hom. (1862), 22. Your biing … Ful ner cumen tilward you es.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Serm., xxvii. Sel. Wks. I. 69. Youre bigginge is nyȝe.

c. 1410.  N. Love, Bonaventure’s Life Christ, lxii. (Gibbs MS. f. 119). He suffrede for our redempcioun and byynge.