venditate

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.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
     , 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 […].

Verb

venditāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of venditō