Literary notes about mercantile (AI summary)
The term "mercantile" has been widely used across literature to evoke the world of business, trade, and commerce, often highlighting legal, economic, and social aspects of mercantile operations. In legal contexts, it appears in phrases like "mercantile law" to denote rules governing commercial transactions and deductions, as in [1] and [2]. It is also employed to describe large-scale trade activities and the risks associated with them, such as the loss of mercantile vessels during warfare [3] and the damage to a nation's mercantile marine [4]. Moreover, the adjective extends to denote environments and institutions centered on trade—from bustling mercantile exchanges and wholesale houses in major towns [5, 6, 7] to specialized gatherings for business transactions [8]. In literary narratives, "mercantile" not only maps out economic practices, like the valuation of precious jewels [9] or the evolution of trade centers [10], but also underscores broader societal impressions of commerce and its influential role in shaping business communities [11, 12].
- Abatement, in mercantile law, is an allowance, deduction, or discount made for prompt payment or other reason.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - M. M. J. Sutherland , D.Sc., F.I.C. Thomas G. Wright , LL.B., Professor of Mercantile Law, University of Glasgow.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - The British mercantile vessels lost by enemy action, excluding fishing vessels, numbered 2479, with an aggregate of 7,759,090 tons gross.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - But, measured either by pecuniary loss or real loss to the economic power of the country, the injury to her mercantile marine was enormous.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - The changing of the Tontine coffee house into a purely mercantile building marked the end of the coffee-house era in New [Pg 124] York.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Niagara was then the headquarters of the shipping interests of the Lake, and the place where the principal wholesale mercantile houses were situated.
— from Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding - In 1806 Kitchen turned the house into a bourse, or mercantile exchange.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - May 27th, 1859, an enthusiastic Convention was held in Mercantile Hall.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - He wanted to handle the delicate jewels; to pull them about, and find out their mercantile value.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. Braddon - Though only a provincial town, Pompeii was a prosperous mercantile place, a representative market-place, a favorite resort for fashionable people.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius - “I always say—and believe me, I base it on a pretty fairly extensive mercantile experience—the best is the cheapest in the long run.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis - His face they seldom saw, for, either through shyness, or not to disturb his mercantile mood, he avoided looking towards their quarters.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
