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noun

Commodity n. (pl. commodities)

Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. (Obs.) "Drawn by the commodity of a footpath." "Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered."

That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.

A parcel or quantity of goods. (Obs.) "A commodity of brown paper and old ginger."

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"Commodity" Quotes from Famous Books

... is very certain that money is a commodity, no less than the articles it is employed to purchase, and like them, its absolute value is depreciated or lowered by abundance. Since the discovery of America, the quantity of gold and silver brought into ...

— A Walk through Leicester - being a Guide to Strangers • Susanna Watts

... principal attention to growing corn and other farm products. They were improving their settlements and reaping the full reward of industry and perseverance. In 1704 the manufacture of tar began, and it was soon discovered that this native article was destined to become a very valuable commodity, both at ...

— School History of North Carolina • John W. Moore

... brighter and purer prospect when you look down from the man who deceives you and me on the great scale, to the man who deceives us on the small? I don't! Everything we eat, drink, and wear is a more or less adulterated commodity; and that very adulteration is sold to us by the tradesmen at such outrageous prices, that we are obliged to protect ourselves on the Socialist principle, by setting up cooperative shops of our own. ...

— The Fallen Leaves • Wilkie Collins

... story, that the ingenious Mr. Carew had no contrivance left to regain his lost liberty, but meanly to purchase it at his friends' expense. For some time did these passions remain in equipoise; as thou hast often seen the scales of some honest tradesman, before he weighs his commodity; but at length honour preponderated, and liberty and fear flew up and kicked the beam; he therefore told the captains he had the most grateful sense of this instance of their love, but that he could never consent to purchase his ...

— The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew • Unknown

... whether or not to publish, "to utter," some of his poetical compositions: he is doubting, and asks Harvey's advice, whether or not to dedicate them to His Excellent Lordship, "lest by our much cloying their noble ears he should gather contempt of myself, or else seem rather for gain and commodity to do it, and some sweetness that I have already tasted." Yet, he thinks, that when occasion is so fairly offered of estimation and preferment, it may be well to use it: "while the iron is hot, it is good striking; and minds ...

— Spenser - (English Men of Letters Series) • R. W. Church

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