tenantable

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Three or four times in twenty years the outgoing tenant will make good his dilapidations, and the house-agent will put the premises into tenantable repair—as these things are settled for us by lawyers and surveyors.

From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various

The tenantable parts of the castle comprise the town-hall; a poor-house; a jail; a new market-house; numerous store-cellars; a blacksmith’s and other shops and habitations; a Roman Catholic chapel; and a pigeon-house. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

At the close of the month it is stated on reliable authority, that the number of buildings actually tenantable was greater than before the conflagration.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

It was a fantastic chateau, much dilapidated, and indeed scarcely tenantable through age and neglect.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan

No weapon, no matter how ingenious, is of utility in warfare unless it can be relied upon, and no vessel that is not tenantable can be expected to render any service at sea.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 by Various