a. Now rare. [a. OF. vendable, f. vendre to sell, or (in later use) directly f. VEND v. + -ABLE.] = VENDIBLE a.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 5804. But chaunged is this world unstable; For love is over alle vendable.
1474. Caxton, Chesse, III. iv. (1883), 112. Saluste … saith that alle thynges be vendable.
c. 1580. W. Spelman, Dialoge (1896), 4. He to returne to me such goodes, as I thought to be vendable in Inglond.
1662. J. Bargrave, Pope Alex. VII. (1867), 90. He courted a long time the Barberini … to be made clerk of the apostolick chamber, he being very rich (and that a vendable honour).
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 292/2. The Axe and Cleever are used to cut the quarter of Beasts into smaller and more vendable pieces.
1893. Advance (Chicago), 21 Sept. The vendable commodities of the United States have fallen in price in 20 years more than 45 per cent.
