vendible
Americanadjective
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saleable or marketable
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obsolete venal
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of vendible
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin vendibilis; see vend, -ible
Example Sentences
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I allude to the vacant territory, the extent of which is so vast, and the vendible value of which is so well ascertained.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various
"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
And the commodities there vendible are all sorts of kersies, but the most part blewes, and of clothes all colours except mingled colours and blacks.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Richard Hakluyt
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
For the third conjugation, it is i; as, from vend=ere, to sell, vendibilis, vendible, salable.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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