vendible
Americanadjective
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saleable or marketable
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obsolete venal
noun
Other Word Forms
- nonvendibility noun
- nonvendible adjective
- nonvendibleness noun
- nonvendibly adverb
- unvendible adjective
- vendibility noun
- vendibleness noun
- vendibly adverb
Etymology
Origin of vendible
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin vendibilis; see vend, -ible
Example Sentences
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Thank you for telling me of the vendible curiosities at the Alderman's.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
"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 Brown, Goold
It is not any private respect of 97gain," he affirms; "for the slightest pamphlet is nowadays more vendible than the works of learnedest men, but it is the love I bear to our own language....
From Life of John Milton by Garnett, Richard
Another man might have utilized some of the material; he lacked the skill to set it in vendible form.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright
I am glad you think the thing is tolerably vamped and will be vendible.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle
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