a. Obs. rare. [ad. late L. veniābilis, f. venia: see VENIAL a.1] Venial, excusable, pardonable.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. xxiii. 168. It is an insufferable delusion, and with more veniable deceit it might have beene practised in Harts horne. Ibid., VII. xix. 385. In things of this nature silence condemneth history, ’tis the veniable part of things lost.
So † Veniably adv. Obs.–1
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. xxi. 268. The Pictures of the Ægyptians were more tolerable, and in their sacred letters more veniably expressed the apprehension of Divinity.
