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Tene [Noun and verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See 1st and 2d Teen.

Tenebrae [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.

Tenebricose [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tenebrous; dark; gloomy.

Tenebrific [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy.

Tenebrificous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tenebrific.

Tenebrious [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Dark; gloomy.

Tenebrious [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tenebrous.

Tenebrose [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.

Tenebrosity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Darkness; gloom.

Tenebrosity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness.

Tenebrous [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. TEN'EBROUS

2. TENE'BROUSNESS

3. TEN'EMENT, noun [Low Latin tenementum, from teneo, to hold.]

4. In common acceptation, a house; a building for a habitation; or an apartment in a building, used by one family.

5. A house or lands depending on a manor; or a fee farm depending on a superior.

6. In law, any species of permanent property that may be held, as land, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, etc. These are called free or frank tenements.

7. The thing held is a tenement, and the possessor of it a tenant, and the manner of possession is called tenure.

Tenebrous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious.

Tenement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.

2. Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.

3. A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.

4. Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.

Tenemental [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pertaining to tenanted lands; that is or may be held by tenants.

2. Tenemental lands they distributed among their tenants.

Tenemental [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants.

Tenementary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That is or may be leased; held by tenants.

Tenementary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being leased; held by tenants.

Tenent [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A tenet.

Teneral [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.

Teneriffe [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A white wine resembling Madeira in taste, but more tart, produced in Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands; -- called also Vidonia.

Teneriffe Encyclopedia Britannica

TENERIFFE. See Canary Islands, vol. iv. p. 798.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 23, p. 173
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Tenerity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Tenderness. [Not in use.]

Tenerity [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tenderness.

Tenesmic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus.

Tenesmus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A painful, ineffectual and repeated effort, or a continual and urgent desire to go to stool.

Tenesmus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum.

Tenet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Any opinion, principle, dogma or doctrine which a person believes or maintains as true; as the tenets of Plato or of Cicero. The tenets of christians are adopted from the Scriptures; but different interpretations give rise to a great diversity of tenets.

Tenet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.