BOUGHT
(also see BUY)
ADJECTIVES
1300 • KEFT bought, paid for → obs.
1500 • MERCHANTABLE that may or can be bought or sold
1552 • VENDIBLE that may be bought or purchased; offered for sale → obs.
1650 • EMPTITIOUS capable of being bought; open to a price; saleable → obs.
1656 • VENALITIOUS that is to be bought or sold; belonging to the sale of men or children, or of slaves
1662 • VENAL that may be bought, as an ordinary article of merchandise → arch.
NOUNS
1570 • ACHATES things bought; provisions for a household bought rather than made
1826 • BUY a thing purchased or bought → orig. US