a. Obs. [f. TEND v.1 + -ABLE: cf. suitable.] Ready to give attention; attentive.
c. 1450. [implied in TENDABLY].
1509. Hawes, Joyf. Medit., xxvii. Vnto our souernyne be meke and tendable.
1530. Palsgr., 327/1. Tendable, as one that dothe wayte well … ententif.
1533. More, Debell. Salem, Wks. 943/2. Good sad honeste vertuous wydowes, that wolde be tendable & tender to sicke folke.
1547. Boorde, Brev. of Health, Pref. 5. Let euery person be tendable about theym [physicians] and do as they shall commaunde them.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. ii. 180. Wherein shee is very tendable, and handy.
So † Tendably adv., attentively, with care.
c. 1450. in Aungier, Syon (1840), 312. Eche of them schal enforme suche as be assygned to them … charitably and tendably.
