merchandize

plural merchandizes

1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of merchandise.

   They have their stored booths in every bazaar, occupy all the principal caravanseries with their merchandize, and entirely control the business of bankerage and monopolies.

   1854, Henry A. Stern, Dawnings of Light in the East, page 46

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   So, if a Sonne that is by his Father ſent about Merchandize, doe ſinfully miſcarry vpon the Sea; the imputation of his vvickedneſſe, by your rule, ſhould be impoſed vpon his Father that ſent him: […]

   1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 84, column 2

   [T]he Bay of Galway [is] so well seated for Merchandize, that it has been lookd on as the greatest Place of Trade in all Ireland; insomuch that a forane Merchant meeting an Irishman, asked him in what Part of Galway Ireland stood?

   1745, Guy Miege, The Present State of Great Britain, and Ireland, page 443

   The first Act of Parliament (1821) had set out a wide range of things the railway could carry, and in the subsequent 1823 Act this was summarised as "Goods, Merchandize, and other Articles and Things upon and along the same Roads, and for the Conveyance of Passengers..."

   2025 August 20, Caroline Hardie, “The railway that changed the world”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 60

present singular third person merchandizes · participle present merchandizing · participle past merchandized · past merchandized

1. USuncommonUncommon spelling of merchandise.