venditation

English

Etymology

From Latin venditatio, from venditare, venditatum (“to offer again and again for sale”), v. freq. of vendere. See vend.

Noun

venditation (usually uncountable, plural venditations)

1. (obsolete) The act of setting forth ostentatiously; a boastful display.
   • 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter‎^[1]:

     And some, by a cunning protestation against all reading, and false venditation of their own naturals, think to divert the fagacity of their readers from themselves

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “venditation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• adventition