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vendre (1174-75)

vendre (1174-75)

vender, 
ind.pr.3 vende,  vente; 
pret.1 vendai; 
pret.3 venda,  vendi; 
pret.6 vendrount; 
fut.3 vendera; 
fut.4 vendrons; 
sbj.pr.1 venke; 
sbj.pr.6 vendent; 
sbj.impf.3 vendast,  vendisist; 
p.pr. vendant; 
p.p. vendu,  vendeu,  vendit  

v.trans.

1to sell (goods for money)
( 1313-14 )  qe nul ne fut si hardi de vendre plus cher nule manere de vitaille forsqe sulom cel assise  YBB Ed II v 11
( 1327 )  autre marchandise vendre et achater  Rot Parl2 138
2to sell, betray
( s.xiii1/3; MS: c.1255 )  Quant te vendi par envie  Resur (P) 231
3to sell, exchange (a right)
( 1215; MS: 1226 )  [A] nulli ne vendrons, a nullui n'escondirons, ne ne porloignerons dreit ne justise  Magna Carta 360.40
( 1299 )  rien ne peut acrestre au rey qi est purchazour plus qe ne freyt al heyr monsire G.P. si le dit G. ne eut nul homage vendu au rey  King’s Bench iii 91
trover a vendre
finan.merch. to find on sale
( 1377; MS: s.xv1 ) (crossbows and bolts should be despatched to Wales from London) que par de cea homme ne les purra trover a vendre  Lett & Pet 164.111.69

v.refl.

to sell one's life
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Ainz se vendrunt chier envers lur enemis  FANT OUP 844

p.pr. as s.

seller, vendor
( 1338 )  satisfaccion fait as vendours ou as vendanz  Treaty Rolls ii 119.19

p.p. as s.

sale
( 1409-10 )  ... devaunt la vendue des ditz biens  Rot Parl1 iii 628

sbst. inf.

sale, selling
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  (Bishops etc.) Ouailles ne querent pestre, Mais du vendre est checuns mestre  S Edw paris ANTS 3742
This is an AND1 entry © MHRA 1977-1992: reproduced with permission. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
vendre