a. [f. TENANT v. and sb. + -ABLE.]

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  1.  Capable of being tenanted or inhabited; fit for occupation. Also fig.

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1542.  Richmond Wills (Surtees), 32. Ye same howse so to be mayde tenandhable.

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1576.  in W. H. Turner, Select. Rec. Oxford (1880), 382. To leve yt repayred and tenaunteable.

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1633.  Ford, Love’s Sacr., IV. ii. A good tenantable and fertile womb.

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1753.  Hervey, Theron & Asp. (1757), I. xii. 472. It [the body] is kept in tenantable condition for the soul.

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1849.  De Quincey, Eng. Mail Coach, Wks. 1862, IV. 292. The only room tenantable by gentlemen.

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1852.  Bearn, in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. Eng., XIII. I. 90. He therefore cannot keep the property in tenantable repair.

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  2.  [f. the sb.] Befitting a tenant. rare.

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1856.  H. Broome, Comm. Common Law, 15. A tenant … is bound to use a farm in a good and tenantable manner, and according to the rules of good husbandry.

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  Hence Tenantableness, tenantable condition.

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1727.  in Bailey, vol. II.

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