ˈvendable, a. Now rare.
[a. OF. vendable, f. vendre to sell, or (in later use) directly f. vend v. + -able.]
= vendible a.
| c 1400 Rom. Rose 5804 But chaunged is this world unstable; For love is over alle vendable. 1474 Caxton Chesse iii. iv. (1883) 112 Saluste..saith that alle thynges be vendable. c 1580 W. Spelman Dialoge (1896) 4 He to returne to me such goodes, as I thought to be vendable in Inglond. 1662 J. Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 90 He courted a long time the Barberini..to be made clerk of the apostolick chamber, he being very rich (and that a vendable honour). 1688 Holme Armoury iii. 292/2 The Axe and Cleever are used to cut the quarter of Beasts into smaller and more vendable pieces. 1893 Advance (Chicago) 21 Sept., The vendable commodities of the United States have fallen in price in 20 years more than 45 per cent. |