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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To set out, as for sale; hence, to display ostentatiously; make a show of.

Wiktionary

  1. v. obsolete, transitive To exhibit, as though for sale; to show off.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To cry up. as if for sale; to blazon.

Etymologies

  1. From the participle stem of Latin venditare, frequentative of vendere ("to sell"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “We brag and venditate our [1916] own works, and scorn all others in respect of us; Inflati scientia, (saith Paul) our wisdom, [1917] our learning, all our geese are swans, and we as basely esteem and vilify other men's, as we do over-highly prize and value our own.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

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  1. blazon

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