| 单词 |
vender |
| 释义 |
vender|ˈvɛndə(r)|
[f. vend v. + -er1. Cf. vendor.]
1. One who sells; a seller; sometimes in restricted sense, a street-seller.
1596Bacon Max. & Use Com. Law ii. (1635) 62 A deed of gift of goods is..good against the executors, administrators, or vender of the party himselfe. 1681Sc. Acts Parlt. (1820) VIII. 243/2 Venders & dispersers of forbidden books. 1711Addison Spect. No. 251 ⁋5 Take care in particular, that those may not make the most Noise who have the least to sell, which is very observable in the Venders of Card-matches. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 181 ⁋11, I inquired diligently at what office any prize had been sold, that I might purchase of a more propitious vender. 1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames iv. 193 Small Grocers, and venders of Smuggled Goods. 1837Hallam Hist. Lit. i. iv. §57 The Swiss reformer was engaged in combating the venders of indulgences. 1866Engel Nat. Mus. viii. 301 The melodious cries of venders in the noisy streets of large and populous towns.
fig.1834Southey Doctor vi. (1862) 17 He gathered the fruit of knowledge for himself instead of receiving it from the dirty fingers of a retail vender.
2. One who advances or advocates an opinion, etc.
1818Dwight Theol. (1830) I. 92 Epicurus, the principal vender of this system.
Hence ˈvenderess, ˈvendress, a female seller.
1800J. Hurdis Fav. Village 98 Vendress of ballads and the bundled match. 1863M. B. Betham-Edwards John & I, I. v. 96 A stout girl, venderess of coarse green earthenware from the town. |
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