Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
merchant .
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Examples
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And he becaam the most riche and the most famouse marchaunt, that myghte ben on see or on erthe.
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And he becaam the most riche and the most famouse marchaunt, that myghte ben on see or on erthe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Is not the marchaunt contented with his goodes already gotten, but will needes go seeke some other trade, let him note and consider the daungers wherein the Aduenturer Landolpho was.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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In the tyme of Azzo Marques of Ferrara, there was a marchaunt named
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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This yere the parlement was at Northt '; and there was Kirkeby drawe and hanged for the deth of a marchaunt of Jene, and a whit frere was punysshed for wordes that they hadde seyde be the duke of Lancastre.
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And he becaam the most riche and the most famouse marchaunt, that myghte ben on see or on erthe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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A diligente marchaunt setteth not light bi winning of a farthing, thinkyng thus in hys mynde: it is in dede of it selfe but a litle, but it groweth to a summe, and a litle often put to a lytle, wyll quyckelye make a great heape.
The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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"At the last wh [= e] as by the vse and familiarity of learned men, he daily profited more and more, his minde being enflamed with godlinesse, he began to consider with him selfe, touching his returne into his countrye, thinkinge (as hys mind greatly desired) that it wold come to pas that like a godly marchaunt he would delyuer some frute and light of that learning, whyche he had received and gotten abrode.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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I am here alone: and certainely I knowe none so honourable, but you may seeme agreeable vnto him so well as to mee, which am but a poore marchaunt: howbeit, I do beseeche you to tell me how you did know that I was in the City.”
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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