nundination

nundination

English

Etymology

From Latin nundinatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌnʌn.dəˈneɪ.ʃən/

Noun

nundination (usually uncountable, plural nundinations)

1. (obsolete) Traffic at fairs; buying and selling.
   • 1654, John Bramhall, A Just Vindication of the Church of England from the Unjust Aspersion of Criminal Schism

     But the practice of dispensations was much more foul: witness their Penitentiary Tax, wherein a man might see the price of his sin before-hand; their common nundination of pardons, their absolving subjects from their oaths of allegiance […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for nundination in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)