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merchantable, a.|ˈmɜːtʃəntəb(ə)l|
Also 5 merchand-, 6 mer-, marchaunt-, 6–7 marchand-, 7–8 merchandable.
[f. merchant v. + -able.]
1. Fit or prepared for market; that may or can be bought or sold; saleable; marketable.
c1480Cokwolds Daunce 109 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 43 Ther wyves hath ben merchandabull, And of ther ware compenabull. a1502Arnolde Chron. 128 J. D...affermid..that the sayd peper was as good as any in the worlde and marchauntable. 1587Heriot in Hakluyt's Voy. (1600) III. 267 Which commodities, for distinction sake, I call Merchantable. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Emploicte, Ware that sells well..marchandable ware. 1656Heylin Surv. France 181 About the time of Clement the fifth..they [indulgences] began to be merchantable. 1713Grand Rebell. II. 336 Came..to relieve their wants By mustering up a Merchandable store. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 7) IV. 80 They [White Fish] were very well cured, merchantable, and fit for Exportation. 1776Adam Smith W.N. iv. v. (1869) II. 96 A barrel of good merchantable herrings. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. iii. 88 Land has become a merchantable commodity. 1894Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. June 322 Feeding stuffs guaranteed of the usual good and merchantable quality.
b. spec. The designation of the highest of the three grades of Newfoundland cod-fish.
1883L. Z. Joncas Fisheries Canada 19 (Fish. Exhib. Publ.).
c. transf. and fig.
1701Argt. for War 25 The Project may pass on the other side the water, but will never be Merchantable, I hope, in England. a1734North Exam. i. ii. §57 (1740) 60 Who..will make ample Returns in good and merchandable Party-Work. 1864G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 5 May, The lawyers and inferior judges..are..mere merchantable creatures, incurably venal.
†2. Of or pertaining to trade; commercial. Obs.
a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 176 Satisfaction from us to God, and remission from God to vs, can no more stand together, than marchandable paiment with bankerupt. Ibid. 469 The most traffiqueable and Marchandable Citie of all Asia. a1670Bp. Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 90 Let every man coin what money he will and observe if ever we can make a marchandable payment.
Hence ˈmerchantableness.
1737Bailey vol. II. (ed. 3). 1885Law Times LXXIX. 132/2 In a sale by sample there is an implied warranty of merchantableness. |