单词 | cauponate |
释义 | † cauponatev. Obsolete. 1. intransitive. To sell liquor or victuals, keep a victualling-house. ΚΠ 1656 T. Blount Glossographia To Cauponate, to sell wine or other victuals. 1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. 1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in mod. Dicts. 2. transitive. To deal like a huckster with; to traffic in for the sake of gain. figurative. [so Latin caupōnāri.] ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade in (goods) illegally or immorally [verb (transitive)] > trade in (goods) in sordid or petty manner cauponize1652 cauponate1653 chant1816 1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 195 By cauponating Religion, and handling the Scriptures deceitfully. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) To cauponate a war, is to make war for money. 1715 R. Bentley Serm. Popery 19 All the privileges of the Gospel, truck'd and cauponated by Popery. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < v.1653 |
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