venditate
English edit
Etymology edit
From the participle stem of Latin venditare, frequentative of vendere (“to sell”).
Verb edit
venditate (third-person singular simple present venditates, present participle venditating, simple past and past participle venditated)
- (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: Printed by 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 edit
Verb edit
vēnditāte