▪ I. veniable
obs. form of vengeable a.
▪ II. † ˈveniable, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. late L. veniābilis, f. venia: see venial a.1]
Venial, excusable, pardonable.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxiii. 168 It is an insufferable delusion, and with more veniable deceit it might have beene practised in Harts horne. Ibid. vii. xix. 385 In things of this nature silence condemneth history, 'tis the veniable part of things lost. |
So † ˈveniably adv. Obs.—1
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. xxi. 268 The Pictures of the ægyptians were more tolerable, and in their sacred letters more veniably expressed the apprehension of Divinity. |