vendible
Americanadjective
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saleable or marketable
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obsolete venal
noun
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Etymology
Origin of vendible
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin vendibilis; see vend, -ible
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This was unnecessary in Ugogo, where the people voluntarily brought every vendible they possessed to the camp.
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
The New Land fish is a principal and rich and everywhere vendible merchandise; and by the gain thereof shipping, victual, munition, and the transporting of five or six thousand soldiers may be defrayed.'
From Elizabethan Sea Dogs by William Charles Henry Wood
Hers was not a case of vendible charms, it was le bon appetit merely, an Epicurean virtue.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by William Hassell Overton
She would have exchanged these odours at the price of her soul—but souls are not vendible, and besides she did not know she possessed one—for the familiar redolences of naphtha and horse-dung and trodden turf.
From True Tilda by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"Titheable, subject to the payment of tithes; Saleable, vendible, fit for sale; Loseable, possible to be lost; Sizeable, of reasonable bulk or size."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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