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vendible, a. and n.|ˈvɛndɪb(ə)l|
[ad. L. vendibilis, f. vendĕre to sell. So Sp. vendible, It. vendibile. Cf. vendable a.]
A. adj.
1. Capable of being vended or sold; that may be disposed of by sale; saleable, marketable.
Freq. with more, most, etc., denoting the readiness with which a thing can be sold.
1382Wyclif 2 Macc. xi. 3 In to wynnynge of money,..by eche ȝeeris prestehode vendible, or able to be soold. 1530in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 91 Wyne..alowed by hym to be good and vendyble. 1581W. Stafford Exam. Compl. ii. (1876) 37 They come not alwayes for our commodities, but sometimes to sell theirs heere, knowing it heere to be best vendible. 1633Prynne 1st Pt. Histriom. Ep. Ded., Play-books..being now more vendible than the choycest Sermons. Ibid. 905 They cannot therefore bee vendible because they are not valuable. 1679in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 275 The University of Oxford, by their printing of Bibles, and other saleable books, will be enabled to go forward with those other less vendible. 1747Hooson Miner's Dict. K iv b, This to make it vendible, is first knocked out with a Hammer, and the dead Stuff picked out as clean as may be. 1788V. Knox Winter Even. ix. iii. III. 232 They get rid of some commodity, not very vendible. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 980 In this way all the vendible coal becomes available. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 90/2 A thing made which is useful for its own sake, and vendible as such.
transf.1581Burghley in D. Digges Compl. Ambass. (1655) 394 He is altogether French and will seek to draw this King into France, where his life I fear will be vendible. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. i. 112 Silence is onely commendable In a neats tongue dri'd, and a maid not vendible.
b. = venal a.1 1 b and 1 c.
1579Fenton Guicciard. x. (1599) 427 Fauors and voyces being made vendible and corrupted, discords..haue bin kindled amongst themselues. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1594) I. 377 So long as the places of judgement shall be vendible, and bestowed upon him that offereth most. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia iii. 76 It is not our custome, to sell our curtesies as a vendible commodity. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 788 In England and Germany Forces were levied and raised for both parties with a vendible faith. 1791Burke Wks. (1837) I. 566 It attached, under the royal government, to an innumerable multitude of places, real and nominal, that were vendible.
†c. Of persons: = venal a.1 2. Obs.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 293 Environed he was with a multitude thronged together of vendible or sale souldiors. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 424 Those were sellable, vendible men,..to be sold for money. a1668R. Lassels Voy. Italy (1698) Pref. p. xxiii, I would not have him learn the custom of those vendible souls there, who..serve any prince for money.
†2. Offered for sale; that may be bought or purchased. Obs.
1552Huloet, Vendible, or whych maye be bought, mercalis, vendibilis. 1605Willet Hexapla Gen. 281 Lentils..was the vsuall food.. commonly vendible in their tabernes. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 150 Houses, like our Tauernes. Where is vendible Wine. 1665G. Havers P. della Valle's Trav. E. India 144 He, not finding any [book] vendible therein, caus'd a small one to be purposely transcrib'd for me. 1756Ld. Chesterfield in Connoisseur No. 107, I am so great an admirer of the fair sex, that I never let a tittle of their vendible writings escape me.
†3. fig. Current, accepted, acceptable. Obs.
1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 20 Certaine vulgar Phrases, Proverbs, and Complements, which are peculiar to the English, and not vendible or used in French. 1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1851 IV. 234 Let the foppish canonist with his fardel of matrimonial cases goe and be vendible where men bee so unhappy as to cheap'n him. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §16. 281 Some may still suspect all this to have been nothing else but a refinement and interpolation of Paganism,..or a kind of Mangonization of it, to render it more vendible and plausible.
B. n. A thing admitting of being sold or offered for sale.
1681Wood Life (O.H.S.) II. 520 The prizes of all vendibles for the belly of man and horse were stuck up in public places. 1691― Ath. Oxon. (1721) II. 384 It appears that the said Revolutions were occasion'd by the excessive Gabells laid upon common Vendibles. 1697J. Potter Antiq. Greece i. xv. (1715) 83 In the Market, where they had the care of all Vendibles. 1821Galt Ann. Parish xxix, The farmers..taking their vendibles to the neighbouring towns on the Tuesdays. 1905Holman Hunt Pre-Raphaelism I. 368 The gorgeous group of vendibles in the market.
Hence ˈvendibleness; ˈvendibly adv.
1563T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 20 The greater they do then abide, the vendiblier, or readier they will be to be solde. 1611Cotgr., Venalité, venalitie, vendiblenesse; a being salable. Ibid., Venalement, vendibly, salably. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Vendibleness, Saleableness. |