Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To set out, as for sale; hence, to display ostentatiously; make a show of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To cry up. as if for sale; to blazon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
exhibit , as though for sale; toshow off .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From the participle stem of Latin venditare, frequentative of vendere ("to sell").
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Examples
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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.
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