Also 6 vendicion, Sc. -itioune, wend-, 7 Sc. venditioun. [ad. L. venditio, noun of action from vendĕre to sell. So OF. vendicion, obs. F. vendition, Sp. vendicion, It. vendizione.] The action of selling; disposal or transfer by sale.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 109 b. It might more truely bee called a spuyng, then a vendicion or sale.
1559. Abst. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1896), II. 73. The uenditioune and alienatioune maid thairof to the said Androw.
1602. Fulbecke, 2nd Pt. Parallel, 29. It is of a vendition by the tenant in taile.
1659. Arrowsmith, Chain Princ., 490. His directing and ordering great sins to great good, as Josephs vendition to the Churches preservation.
1754. Fielding, Voy. Lisbon, Wks. 1882, VII. 60. Several taverns are set apart solely for the vendition of this liquor.
1828. Sewell, in Oxf. Prize Ess., 26. The still more prevailing practice of vendition to slavery and prostitution.
1863. Temple Bar, IX. 65. The Marché St. Honoré is the most usual place for their vendition.
