purprise

From Old French porpris, from porprendre (“to take away entirely”); por- (“for”) + prendre (“to take”).

• IPA^(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈpɹaɪz/

purprise (plural purprises)

1. (obsolete) An enclosed space, such as the land within the borders of a manor.
   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Judicature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

     The place of justice is an hallowed place ; and therefore , not only the bench , but the foot – pace and precincts , and purprise thereof , ought to be preserved without scandal and corruption

• “purprise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.