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enterable, a.|ˈɛntərəb(ə)l| [f. enter v. + -able.] That may be entered, in various senses of the vb.; † spec. of an article of commerce, that is allowed to be imported.
1714Fr. Bk. of Rates 57 Merchandizes, which are Enterable in the former Account of Goods. 1787Nelson 12 Aug. in Nicolas Disp. (1845) I. 252 Tamarinds and noyeau I must get smuggled..The latter is not enterable. 1793A. Bell in Southey Life (1844) I. 461 Walked all round Pondicherry. Enterable by the sea face from the south. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. I. 245 The hotel is..enterable through an arch. 1879G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie I. ix. 123 On neither could he be required to live and act—as now in this waste of enterable and pervious extent. |