† venditatev.
Obsolete.
reflexive and transitive. To set out as if for sale; to put forward or display in a favourable light or in a specious manner; to exhibit ostentatiously. (Common c1600–50.)
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display of [verb (transitive)]
flourishc1380
show1509
ostent1531
ostentatec1540
to ruffle it1551
to brave out1581
vaunt1590
boasta1592
venditate1600
to make the most ofa1627
display1628
to make (a) parade of1656
pride1667
sport1684
to show off1750
flash1785
afficher1814
affiche1817
parade1818
flaunt1822
air1867
showboat1937
ponce1953
rock1987
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display [verb (reflexive)]
to feat oneself fortha1400
peacocka1586
venditate1600
air1828
overplume1890
spread1891
showboat1984
reflexive.
transitive.1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 345 Euer as any of these new commers can venditat and vaunt his owne cunning with braue words, straitwaies we put our selues into his hands.1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 457 The miracles which Romists venditate..are eyther Fryars fables, or reports misapplyed.1678 A. Marvell Def. John Howe in Wks. (1875) IV. 239 Let it, in the meantime, venditate all its street adages, its odd ends of Latin.1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iii. xxxv. 110 Using them as instruments to venditate himselfe forth to the common people.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. i. ii. 67 Although hee..venditate himselfe for a God, by curing of seuerall diseases.
1629 H. Burton Truth's Triumph 361 Their doctrine..wanting fit opportunity to venditate it self publickly vpon the stage.
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) i. i. 7 Those Philosophers..which made their knowledge onely matter of ostentation, to venditate and set off themselves.
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