venditate

English

Etymology

From the participle stem of Latin venditare, frequentative of vendere (“to sell”).

Verb

venditate (third-person singular simple present venditates, present participle venditating, simple past and past participle venditated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To exhibit, as though for sale; to show off.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.293:
      We brag and venditate our own works, and scorn all others in respect of us […]

Latin

Verb

vēnditāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of vēnditō
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