Definition of "auctioneered" [auctioneered]

• Simple past tense and past participle of auctioneer. (verb)

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• "Men were weighed by their dollars, measures gauged by their dollars; life was auctioneered, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars."
• "In addition to this he had "got wind of the fact," that he was to be auctioneered off; soon these things brought serious reflections to Sheridan's mind, and among other questions, he began to ponder how he could get a ticket on the U.G.R.R., and get out of this "place of torment," to where he might have the benefit of his own labor."
• "But no more their household servants at the court-house auctioneered;"