bought-off

Updated: May 10, 2025

Whether he had enlisted as a private, and had been bought-off by his friends; whether he had borne the rank of an officer, and had sold his commission, or had been cashiered, or had deserted, or had been drummed-out of his regiment, no one pretended to say.

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Henry Dunbar : A Novel