vendibleadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈvɛndᵻbl/, U.S.

/ˈvɛndəb(ə)l/

Etymology: < Latin vendibilis, < vendĕre to sell. So Spanish vendible , Italian vendibile . Compare vendable adj.

A. adj.

a. Capable of being vended or sold; that may be disposed of by sale; saleable, marketable.Frequently with more, most, etc., denoting the readiness with which a thing can be sold.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > able to be sold

sellablea1382

vendiblec1384

vendablec1400

sale-worthyc1440

market-like1473

sale-worth1481

venable1507

saleable1530

marketable1577

utterable1581

chapmanable1594

selling1770

tenderable1868

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. xi. 3 In to wynnynge of money,..by eche ȝeeris prestehode vendible, or able to be soold.

1530 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 91 Wyne..alowed by hym to be good and vendyble.

1581 W. Stafford Compend. Exam. Complaints (1876) ii. 37 They come not alwayes for our commodities, but sometimes to sell theirs heere, knowing it heere to be best vendible.

1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. Ep. Ded. Play-books..being now more vendible than the choycest Sermons.

1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. 905 They cannot therefore bee vendible because they are not valuable.

1679 in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) 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.

1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Kivb This to make it vendible, is first knocked out with a Hammer, and the dead Stuff picked out as clean as may be.

1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings III. ix. iii. 232 They get rid of some commodity, not very vendible.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 980 In this way all the vendible coal becomes available.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 90/2 A thing made which is useful for its own sake, and vendible as such.

in extended use.1581 Ld. Burghley in D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 394 He is altogether French and will seek to draw this King into France, where his life I fear will be vendible.a1616 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice (1623) i. i. 112 Silence is onely commendable In a neats tongue dri'd, and a maid not vendible [1600 vendable].

b. = venal adj.² 1b, 1c.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > for sale > of support or favour

vendablec1400

vendible1579

of sale1598

venal1652

society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > for sale > of offices or privileges

vendible1579

venal1675

vendablea1680

1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin x. 559 Fauors and voyces being made vendible and corrupted, discordes..haue bene kindled amongst them selues.

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 400 So long as the places of iudgement shall be vendible, and bestowed vpon him that offreth most.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. 76 It is not our custome, to sell our curtesies as a vendible commodity.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 788 In England and Germany Forces were levied and raised for both parties with a vendible faith.

1791 E. Burke 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 adj.² 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [adjective] > of nature of bribe > able to be bribed

corrupt1393

wager1567

saleable1579

of sale1598

sale1604

vendible1609

shop-likea1637

emptitious1650

sellable1650

venal1670

bribable1724

on the take1930

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 293 Environed he was with a multitude thronged together of vendible or sale souldiors.

1637–50 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) 424 Those were sellable, vendible men,..to be sold for money.

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) Pref. sig. ī.ij I would not haue him learne the custome of those vendible souls there, who..serue any Prince for money.

†2. Offered for sale; that may be bought or purchased. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > for sale

to set on (or a) sale1546

vendible1552

saleable1599

venal1662

on (also in) the market1776

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Vendible, or whych maye be bought, mercalis, vendibilis.

1605 A. Willet Hexapla in Genesin 281 Lentils..was the vsuall food.. commonly vendible in their tabernes.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 150 Houses, like our Tauernes. Where is vendible Wine.

1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 144 He, not finding any [book] vendible therein, caus'd a small one to be purposely transcrib'd for me.

1756 Connoisseur No. 107. 647 I am so great an admirer of the fair sex, that I never let a tittle of their vendible writings escape me.

†3. figurative. Current, accepted, acceptable. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > [adjective]

acceptablea1382

acceptedc1384

admittable?1406

approvablec1449

eligiblea1500

plausible1541

admissable1587

avowable1602

applausive1605

admissible1611

vendible1642

plaudablea1650

unexceptionable1664

favourable1666

unobnoxious1678

unexceptioned1704

right1748

unregrettable1748

undisgusting1755

unexceptional1775

all right1868

unarraignable1886

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell iii. 29 Certaine vulgar Phrases, Proverbs, and Complements, which are peculiar to the English, and not vendible or used in French.

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 62 Let the foppish canonist with his fardel of matrimonial cases goe and be vendible where men bee so unhappy as to cheap'n him.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 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.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun]

emporeutic1612

ablectick1623

vendible1681

offering1820

marketables1824

seller1831

product1928

1681 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 520 The prizes of all vendibles for the belly of man and horse were stuck up in public places.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses (1721) II. 384 It appears that the said Revolutions were occasion'd by the excessive Gabells laid upon common Vendibles.

1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. xv. 80 In the Market, where they had the care of all Vendibles.

1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xxix. 254 The farmers..taking their vendibles to the neighbouring towns on the Tuesdays.

1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism I. 368 The gorgeous group of vendibles in the market.

Derivatives

ˈvendibleness n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > ability to be sold

vendibleness1611

merchantableness1644

vendibility1660

saleableness1727

saleability1797

marketableness1809

marketability1877

market potential1954

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Venalité, venalitie, vendiblenesse; a being salable.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Vendibleness, Saleableness.

ˈvendibly adv.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > [adverb] > in saleable manner

vendibly1563

sellably1611

saleably1755

marketably1842

1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 20 The greater they do then abide, the vendiblier, or readier they will be to be solde.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Venalement, vendibly, salably.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	vendible
释义	vendibleadj.n. Brit. /ˈvɛndᵻbl/, U.S. /ˈvɛndəb(ə)l/ Etymology: < Latin vendibilis, < vendĕre to sell. So Spanish vendible , Italian vendibile . Compare vendable adj. A. adj. 1. a. Capable of being vended or sold; that may be disposed of by sale; saleable, marketable.Frequently with more, most, etc., denoting the readiness with which a thing can be sold. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > able to be sold sellablea1382 vendiblec1384 vendablec1400 sale-worthyc1440 market-like1473 sale-worth1481 venable1507 saleable1530 marketable1577 utterable1581 chapmanable1594 selling1770 tenderable1868 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. xi. 3 In to wynnynge of money,..by eche ȝeeris prestehode vendible, or able to be soold. 1530 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 91 Wyne..alowed by hym to be good and vendyble. 1581 W. Stafford Compend. Exam. Complaints (1876) ii. 37 They come not alwayes for our commodities, but sometimes to sell theirs heere, knowing it heere to be best vendible. 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. Ep. Ded. Play-books..being now more vendible than the choycest Sermons. 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. 905 They cannot therefore bee vendible because they are not valuable. 1679 in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) 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. 1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Kivb This to make it vendible, is first knocked out with a Hammer, and the dead Stuff picked out as clean as may be. 1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings III. ix. iii. 232 They get rid of some commodity, not very vendible. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 980 In this way all the vendible coal becomes available. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 90/2 A thing made which is useful for its own sake, and vendible as such. in extended use.1581 Ld. Burghley in D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 394 He is altogether French and will seek to draw this King into France, where his life I fear will be vendible.a1616 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice (1623) i. i. 112 Silence is onely commendable In a neats tongue dri'd, and a maid not vendible [1600 vendable]. b. = venal adj.² 1b, 1c. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > for sale > of support or favour vendablec1400 vendible1579 of sale1598 venal1652 society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > for sale > of offices or privileges vendible1579 venal1675 vendablea1680 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin x. 559 Fauors and voyces being made vendible and corrupted, discordes..haue bene kindled amongst them selues. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 400 So long as the places of iudgement shall be vendible, and bestowed vpon him that offreth most. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. 76 It is not our custome, to sell our curtesies as a vendible commodity. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 788 In England and Germany Forces were levied and raised for both parties with a vendible faith. 1791 E. Burke 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 adj.² 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [adjective] > of nature of bribe > able to be bribed corrupt1393 wager1567 saleable1579 of sale1598 sale1604 vendible1609 shop-likea1637 emptitious1650 sellable1650 venal1670 bribable1724 on the take1930 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 293 Environed he was with a multitude thronged together of vendible or sale souldiors. 1637–50 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) 424 Those were sellable, vendible men,..to be sold for money. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) Pref. sig. ī.ij I would not haue him learne the custome of those vendible souls there, who..serue any Prince for money. †2. Offered for sale; that may be bought or purchased. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > for sale to set on (or a) sale1546 vendible1552 saleable1599 venal1662 on (also in) the market1776 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Vendible, or whych maye be bought, mercalis, vendibilis. 1605 A. Willet Hexapla in Genesin 281 Lentils..was the vsuall food.. commonly vendible in their tabernes. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 150 Houses, like our Tauernes. Where is vendible Wine. 1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 144 He, not finding any [book] vendible therein, caus'd a small one to be purposely transcrib'd for me. 1756 Connoisseur No. 107. 647 I am so great an admirer of the fair sex, that I never let a tittle of their vendible writings escape me. †3. figurative. Current, accepted, acceptable. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > [adjective] acceptablea1382 acceptedc1384 admittable?1406 approvablec1449 eligiblea1500 plausible1541 admissable1587 avowable1602 applausive1605 admissible1611 vendible1642 plaudablea1650 unexceptionable1664 favourable1666 unobnoxious1678 unexceptioned1704 right1748 unregrettable1748 undisgusting1755 unexceptional1775 all right1868 unarraignable1886 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell iii. 29 Certaine vulgar Phrases, Proverbs, and Complements, which are peculiar to the English, and not vendible or used in French. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 62 Let the foppish canonist with his fardel of matrimonial cases goe and be vendible where men bee so unhappy as to cheap'n him. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 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. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] emporeutic1612 ablectick1623 vendible1681 offering1820 marketables1824 seller1831 product1928 1681 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 520 The prizes of all vendibles for the belly of man and horse were stuck up in public places. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses (1721) II. 384 It appears that the said Revolutions were occasion'd by the excessive Gabells laid upon common Vendibles. 1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. xv. 80 In the Market, where they had the care of all Vendibles. 1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xxix. 254 The farmers..taking their vendibles to the neighbouring towns on the Tuesdays. 1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism I. 368 The gorgeous group of vendibles in the market. Derivatives ˈvendibleness n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > ability to be sold vendibleness1611 merchantableness1644 vendibility1660 saleableness1727 saleability1797 marketableness1809 marketability1877 market potential1954 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Venalité, venalitie, vendiblenesse; a being salable. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Vendibleness, Saleableness. ˈvendibly adv. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [adverb] > in saleable manner vendibly1563 sellably1611 saleably1755 marketably1842 1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 20 The greater they do then abide, the vendiblier, or readier they will be to be solde. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Venalement, vendibly, salably. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.c1384
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