a. [f. ENTER v. + -ABLE.] That may be entered, in various senses of the vb.; † spec. of an article of commerce, that is allowed to be imported.
1714. Fr. Bk. of Rates, 57. Merchandizes, which are Enterable in the former Account of Goods.
1787. Nelson, 12 Aug., in Nicolas, Disp. (1845), I. 252. Tamarinds and noyeau I must get smuggled…. The latter is not enterable.
1793. A. Bell, in Southey, Life (1844), I. 461. Walked all round Pondicherry. Enterable by the sea face from the south.
1858. Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls., I. 245. The hotel is … enterable through an arch.
1879. G. Macdonald, Sir Gibbie, I. ix. 123. In neither could he be required to live and act—as now in this waste of enterable and pervious extent.
