单词 | to make merchandise |
释义 | > as lemmasto make (a or one's) merchandise b. to make (a or one's) merchandise: to make a deal, to conclude a bargain. Also with of: to deal in, to make money from, to use as a bargaining tool (usually with pejorative connotation). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > bargaining > bargain [verb (intransitive)] > make a bargain to make (a or one's) merchandise?a1300 swapc1400 cope1575 to strike (up obs.) a bargain1607 society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade in (goods) illegally or immorally [verb (transitive)] to make merchandy ofa1425 to make (a or one's) merchandise1531 mart1589 trade1737 traffic1896 ?a1300 (a1250) Harrowing of Hell (Digby) (1907) 86 (MED) Hou miȝtest þou..Of oþer monnes þing maken marchaundise? c1300 St. Francis (Laud) 3 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 53 (MED) His Marchaundise he maude a-day in þe cite of Asise. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 16490 (MED) All for noght..iudas; þi marchandis es made. c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 9676 Thei made a schrewed marchaundise: Eche slo other. a1450 York Plays (1885) 228 I wolde make a marchaundyse. 1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon 28 They made marchaundise of open penaunce. 1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 332 Nane of thame sall brek bouk, nor mak marchandice quhill the tyme that thair gudis be housit. 1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xxi. 14 Thou shalt not make merchandize of her. View more context for this quotation 1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xiv. 413 They..will rather suffer their daughter to make merchandise of her chastity, then marry the richest merchant. 1774 B. Franklin & G. Whately Princ. Trade 19 Coin may be liable, in the Fluctuation of Trade, to be made a Merchandize of. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. xvii. 50 There [i.e. at Rome] Where gainful merchandize is made of Christ. 1863 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. VIII. 182 She said she would make no merchandise of her conscience. 1883 E. Arnold Pearls of Faith 120 In the Gardens of delight..Who would not make merchandise, Buying bliss in Paradise? < as lemmas |
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