Thei ben clerkes, and courts ovir se,
Ther pore tenaunce fully thei slite.

Chaucer. The Plowman's Tale. He was hated of all men insomoche that his owne tenauntes, the men of Northumberlāde, of whiche prouynce he than was lorde, arose agayne hym, Fabyan. Chronycle, c. 214.

To apply the distinction to Colchester; all men beheld it as tenantable, full of faire houses; none as tenable in an hostile way, for any long time, against a great army. Fuller. Worthies. Essex.

But some men will say unto me: that to be banished is a note of ignominy and reproach; true it is indeed, but among fooles only, who thinke likewise that it is a shame to be poore, to be bald, to be small of stature, yea, and to be a stranger, forsooth, a tenant, inmate, or alien inhabitant. Holland. Plutarch, p. 230.

On which hypothesis, the witch's anointing herself before she takes her flight, may perhaps serve to keep the body tenantable, and in fit disposition to receive the spirit at its return.-Glanvill, Ess. 6.

We mistake our tenure: we take that for gift, which God intends for loane; we are tenants at will, and thinke our selves owners.-Bp. Hall, Epis. 9.

In this realme, and in other the like dominions, the tenure of lands is altogether grounded on militarie lawes, and held as in fee vnder princes which are not made heads of the people by force of voluntarie election, but borne the soueraigne lords of those whole and intyre territories.

Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 80.

As for tenures, I shall say that they [the Saxons] had not the name in use among them, yet (like the Jews, the Greeks, the Romans, and other ancient nations) a multitude of services, whereof some were personal, and some predial. Spelman. Of Feuds & Tenures, c. 25.

Three acres more he converted into a highway, leading from Richmansworth to Watford; and so was commonly used; he the rest he tenanted out. Strype. Eccles. Mem. Hen. VIII. an. 1530.

The thing holden therefore stiled a tenement, the possessors thereof tenants, and the manner of their possession a tenure.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 5.

The lands in America and the West-Indies, indeed, are in general not tenanted nor leased out to farmers.

Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 3.

Their vanity is gratified in seeing the great and the rich at their table, especially when useful connexions may be made; and what signifies it, they think, if the wretches at home, the tenantry, whom nobody knows, starve and rot on the dunghills whence they originated. Knox. Ess. No. 114.

To this species of tenancy succeeded, though by very slow degrees, farmers, properly so called, who cultivated the land with their own stock, paying a rent certain to the landlord. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iii. c. 2.

TEND, v. TE'NDANT.

TENDANCE.

TE'NDENCY.

TE'NDMENT.

Fr. Tendre; It. Tèndere; Lat. Tendere; Gr.Tew-ew, to stretch. See TENSE, TENT, ATTEND, &c. To stretch or direct the course or way; (met.) the mind or faculties of the mind; to observe, to take heed or care; to watch, to wait upon, to guard; to direct the way-as to an end or object; to proceed or advance, or make advancement or progress towards.

Beryn arose a morowe, and cried wondir fast,
And axid aftir clothis, but it was all in wast;
Ther was no man tendant for hym in all the house.

Chaucer. The Marchantes Second Tale.

Thus you partly see by comparing a climate to vs well knowen, and familiarly acquainted by like height of the sunne in both places, that vnder the equinoctiall in June is no excessiue heat, but a temperate aire rather tending to cold.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 51.

The Indian Paracoussy drew neere to the French, and began to make him a long oration, which tended to no other end, but that he besought the Frenchmen very earnestly to come and see his dwelling.-ld. Ib. p. 822.

This deceiptful propheme tented to this end, that if he had geuen sentence for the phariseis, then should he haue bene accused of the Herodians for an authour of rebellion, or insurreccion agaynst the emperour.-Udal. Marke, c. 12. But whereas Buckhurst's officious diligence seemed to tend to the intrapping of Leicester, Leicester's displeasure against him and settled favour with the queen prevailed so far, that Buckhurst at his return was confined to his house for several months. Camden. History of Q. Elizabeth, an. 1587.

By your leave, Sir, I'll tend my master, and instantly be with you. Beaum. & Fletch. Fair Maid of the Inn, Act ii. Cel. Methinks this open air's far better, tend ye that way. Pray where's the woman came along?

Id. The Humorous Lieutenant, Act iii. sc. 4. Unhappie wight, borne to desastrous end, That doth his life in so long tendance spend ! Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale.

But if at first the appetites, and necessities, and tendencies of the body, when it was at ease, and health, and blessed, did yet tempt the soul to forbidden instancies, much more will this be done when the body is miserable and afflicted, uneasie and dying.-Bp. Taylor. Of Repentance, c. 7. § 1.

Whether ill tendment, or recurelesse paine,
Procure his death; the neighbours all complaine,
Th' unskilfull leech murdered his patient,
By poyson of some foule ingredient.

Bp. Hall, b. ii. Sat. 4.
Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend;
The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, b. iii.
Jeoly had been sick for three months in all which time
I lended him as carefully as if he had been my brother.
Dampier. Voyages, an. 1691.
I will the action that tends one way, whilst my desire
tends another, and that the direct contrary.
Locke. Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 21.

His fields he tended, with successless care,
Early and late.-J. Philips. Cider, b. ii.

You have before ye that which is the very top and flower of the heaven of a reasonable creature; who in this blessed state is fixed, as it were, in his own proper element, where, without any lett or disturbance, he freely moves and acts according to his most natural tendence and inclination.

Scott. Christian Life, pt. i. c. 1.

The tendency of such pretences was to make Father and Son one hypostasis, or person, and was in reality to deny that there was any son at all. Waterland. Works, vol. ii. p. 271.

Between three and four o'clock the tide of ebb began to make, and I sent the master to sound to the southward and southwestward, and in the mean time, as the ship tended, I weighed anchor.-Cook. First Voyage, b. iii. c. 7. My goats, secure from harm, small tendance need, While high on yonder hanging rock they feed. Philips, Past. 6.

TENDER, adj. TE'NDER, V.

This truth Philosophy, though eagle-ey'd
In nature's tendencies, oft overlooks.-Cowper. Task, b.ii.
Fr. Tendre; It. Tènero; Sp.
Tierno; Lat. Tener, which
Vossius derives from the Gr.
Tepny, by transposition of p
and v.
Others from Tew-

TENDERLY.

TENDERNESS. TENDERLING, n.

ev, to stretch; and thus to mean-stretched, extended, dilated; and, consequentially, weakened, relaxed. (See ENTENDER.) Tender is

Easily hurt or injured, broken or torn in pieces; having passions or feelings, easily affected or acted upon, afflicted or distressed; soft, delicate; sensitive, feeling, having much fellow feeling; compassionate; mild, gentle.

But of the fige tre lerne ye the parable whanne now his braunche is tendre and leves ben sprungun out, ye knowen that somer is nygh.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 13.

Learne a similitude of the fygge tree. When his braunches are yet tender, and hath broughte fourth leues, ye knowe that sommer is neare.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

"I have," quod she, "a soule for to kepe
As wel as ye, and also min honour,
And of my wifhood thilke tendre flour."

Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 10,062.
Alas! what wonder is it though she wept?
That shal be sent to straunge nation
Fro frendes, that so tendrely hire kept.

Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4687.

This old Pandion, this king gan wepe
For tendernesse of herte, for to leve
His doughter gon, and for to yeve her leve,
Of this world he loved nothing so,

But at the last, leave hath she to go.-Id. Philomene.

And children fiue

Betwene hem two thei had aliue,

That weren yonge, and tender of age,

And of stature and of visage.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.

After he had sent diuerse of his seruauntes, one after an other, the ende and conclusion was, that eyther they bette the al, or els slew the. He had then left his onely sonne who he loued tenderly.—Udal. Marke, c. 12.

Suffer them to be led with this tendernesse ientely and swetely, vnto thynges of more perfeccion.-Id. Matt. c. 9. Now haue we manie chimnies and yet our tenderlings complaine of rheumes, catarhs, and poses.

Holinshed. Description of England, b. ii. c. 19.

The Novatians erred in the matter of repentance: the inducing cause of their error was an over-active zeal, and too wary a tenderness in avoiding scandal and judging concerning it.-Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. i. c. 3. Ye had better marry her to her grave a great deal : There will be peace and rest, alas poor gentlewoman, Must she become a nurse now in her tenderness?

Beaum. & Fletch. The Night-Walker, Act i.

From either host, sires, sons, and brothers trace
The well-known features of some kindred face.
Then first their hearts with tenderness were struck,
First with remorse for civil rage they shook.
Rowe. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. iv.

If human woes her soft attention claim,
A tender sympathy pervades the frame,
She pours a sensibility divine
Along the nerve of ev'ry feeling line.

Cowper. Table Talk.
Oh! that in friendship we were thus to blame,
And ermin'd candour, lender of our fame,
Wou'd clothe the honest errour with an honest name!
Be we then stil! to those we hold most dear,
Fatherly fund, and tenderly severe.

Smart. The Horation Canons of Friendship. Plants rais'd with tenderness are seldom strong; Man's coltish disposition asks the thong; And without discipline the fav'rite child, Like a neglected forester, runs wild.

TENDER, v. TENDER, n. TE'NDRY.

Cowper. Progress of Errour. Formed upon the Fr. verb Tendre, to tend, (qv.)

To stretch or reach out, (to or before;) to propose, to present, to offer; to observe, to heed or care for, to guard, to regard. Shakespeare uses the n. tender in this latter signification, i.e. heed, regard.

For in her minde no thought there is,
But how she may be true, I wis
And tenders thee, and all thy heale,
And wisheth both thy health and weale
And loues thee euen as far forth than
As any woman may a man.

Vncertaine Auctors. The Louer describing, &c. But for Cadwan, after many meanes & requestes, myght not brynge that aboute, he therefore tenderynge hir necessitie, kepte hir in his owne courte tyll she were lighted. Fabyan. Chronycie, c. 128.

Sir, quoth the knight, or ye departe fro hens, it were good yt ye dyde send to your cosyn, the prince of Wales, to knowe yf he wolde receyue you or nat, and for pytie somwhat to tendre your nede and necessyte.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 231.

He sawe moreouer that his moste louying subiectes of tender and seeke the glory of God) did nowe houngre and Englande (whome hys godly exaumple had prouoked to thirste the righteousnesse of God, and the knowelage of hys woorde.-Udal. Erasmus, Pref.

Knowe yee, that hereupon we greatly tendring the wealth of our people and the encouragement of them and other our louing subiects in their good enterprises for the aduancement of lawfull traffike to the benefite of our common wealth, haue of our speciall grace, &c.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 296. Here was a sore ponnyshemete for so horryble a myschefe, but that they sumwhat tedered them selues in the same, as ocupyers in one arte."

Bale. English Votaries, pt. iL Something is done,

That will distract me, that will make me mad, If I behold thee: if thou tender'st me, Let me not see thee.-Beaum. & Fletch. Philaster, Act iii. Lady. Alas, you need not. I make already tender of myself, and then you are fors worn.

Id. The Scornful Lady, Act v. Twelve talents of the finest gold, all which Vlysses weyd, And carried first, and after him, the other youths conveyd The other presents; tendred all, in face of all the court. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xix. Thou hast shew'd thou mak'st some tender of my life In this faire rescue thou hast brought to mee.

Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. IV. Act v. sc. 4.

3. That this his meditation proceeds upon certain terms and stipulations between God and men, which he obtained of God for us, and in his name hath published and tendered to us.-Scott. Christian Life, pt. ii. c. 7.

His tendering upon so fair and easy terms an endless life in perfect joy and bliss; his furnishing us with so plentiful means and powerful aids for attaining that happy statehow pregnant demonstrations are these of unspeakable goodness toward us !-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 39.

We may by our charity and benignity to those whose good he tenders, yield (though not an adequate, yet) an acceptable return to his benefits.-Id. vol. i. Ser. 8

The lives of our souls being in God's free disposal, he had an undoubted right to exchange them with Christ's for his life, upon the free tendry which he made of it.

Scott. Christian Life, pt. ii. c. 7.

Bestowing on the priest and victim the most acceptable retribution that he could possibly receive, the right of pardoning, reforming and making eternally happy, as many as should throw themselves on the mercy thus tendered them, and prove the sincerity of their thankful faith, by that of their obedience.-Secker, vol. i. Ser. 19.

TENDERS. i. e. attenders,attending on another (a large one.)

We were now 640 men in 8 sail of ships, commanded by Capt. Davis, Capt. Swan, Capt. Townley and Capt. Knight, with a fireship and three tenders, which last had not a constant crew.-Dampier. Voyages, an. 1685.

In the xiiii. yere of kynge Edwarde at a parlyament holden at Westmynster, were made the statutes called Addimenta Gloucestrie, which is to meane Addicions of Statutes made and put to suche as before tyme were made at the parlyamēt holden at Gloucester, ye whiche statutes made to refourme suche persones as mysused the lades and tenementes, comynge to theym by reason of the dower, or landes of theyr wyues.-Fabyan. Chronycle, an. 1286.

They will wrangle and go to law, nay, they will be ready to enter the lists and combat for a plot of ground whereupon a house standeth, about some corner of a messuage or end of a little tenement.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 147.

Such were the Ceorls among the Saxons; but of two sorts, -a (small) ship, one that hired the lord's outland or tenementary land (called also the Folcland) like our farmers. Spelman. Of Feuds & Tenures, c. 7. though in its vulgar acceptation it is only applied to houses Tenement is a word of still greater extent (than land) and and other buildings, yet in its original, proper and legal sense, it signifies every thing that may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature: whether it be of a substantial and sensible, or of an unsubstantial ideal kind. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 2. The other, or tenemental lands, they distributed among their tenants.-Id. Ib. c. 6.

TENDON. Fr. Tendon; It. Tèndine; Sp. TENDINOUS. Tendon; Low Lat. Tendo, from Gr. Tevwv, TELV-ew, to stretch. Cotgrave calls it— "A tail of a muscle; a bloodless instrument of motion, consisting partly of the sinew, and partly of the ligament and fibers, which issue confusedly from the belly of a muscle."

We now rest convinced that the mind does not act herself upon the limbs, but draws them to and fro by tendons, muscles, nerves and fibres. Search. Light of Nature, vol. i. pt. i. c. 3.

Nervous and tendinous parts have worse symptoms, and are harder of cure than fleshy ones.-Wiseman. Surgery.

TENDRIL, n. Fr. Tendron, tendrillon, the tender branch or sprig of a plant. Usually applied to

The claspers of plants, by which they climb or support themselves.

Shee as a vail down to the slender waste
Her unadorned golden tresses wore
Disheveld, but in wanton ringlets way'd
As the vine curles her tendrils.

Millon. Paradise Lost, b. iv.

So may thy tender blossoms fear no blight,
Nor goats with venom'd teeth thy tendrils bite,
As thou shalt guide my wandering feet to find
The fragrant greens I seek, my brows to bind.

Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, b. ii.
Mingled with the curling growth
Of tendril hops. that flaunt upon their poles,
More airy wild than vines along the sides
Of treacherous Falernum.

Dyer. The Flecce, b. 1.

Writers put peculiar signes of head melancholy, from the sole distemperature of spirits in the braine, as they are hot, cold, dry, moist, all without matter, from the motion alone, and tenebrosity of spirits.

Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 198.

He [Chrysippus] affirmeth that the air by nature is dark, and for that cause, by consequence it is also the primitive cold and that tenebrosity or darkness is directly opposite unto light and clearness, and the coldness thereof to the heat of fire.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 882.

Where moon and stars for villains only made?
To guide, yet screen them, with tenebrious light?
Young. Complaint, Night 9.

TE/NET. Also written tenent, (Brown, b. vii. c. 1.)

An opinion, doctrine, which any one (tenet) holds; which any persons (tenent) hold.

We endeavour'd to reclaim the said Sir John, and try'a all ways and means that we could devise to reduce him to the unity of the church, declaring unto him the doctrines, tenets, and determinations of the holy Roman and universal church, relating to those points.

Slate Trials. 1 Hen. V. 1413. Sir John Oldcastle. To open therefore a door for entrance, there is no reason but the tenet must be this. Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. viii.

But why do I suffer this babbler to lead me out of my way? what is all this sleevelesse discourse to a man that never said, never thought every vow of this kind unlawfull, nor every breach of such vow sinlesse ? When he takes me with this tenet, let him load me with authorities.

Bp. Hull. Honour of the Maried Clergie, b. i. § 9. So that men will disbelieve their own eyes, renounce the evidence of their senses, and give their own experience the lye rather than admit of any thing disagreeing with these sacred tenets.-Locke. Hum. Underst. b. iv. c. 20.

In recommending the doctrine which this book particularly enforces, I know that I am justified by the holy scriptures, by the church, by the tenets of the most learned and virtuous of the dissenters, and the greatest divines of this country, who have displayed their abilities either by the press or the pulpit.-Knox. Christian Philosophy, § 59.

TENNIS. Jeu de palme. A game with the hand; also played with a bat; a racket, from the Fr. Tenez, accipe, take; a word which the French, who excel in this game, use when they hit the ball. Skinner has two other conjectures not so plausible.

Gascone and his brother Yuan fell out toguyder, playeng at tennes, and Gascone gaue hym a blowe.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 26. Tenyse, selledome vsed, and for a lyttell space, is a good exercise for yong men, but it is more violent than shootynge, by reason that two men do play.

Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 27. These four garrisons issuing forth upon the will enemy, 80 drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them, that he shall find no where safe to keep his feet in, nor hide himself.-Spenser. State of Ireland.

They have but drunke once together at the taverne, or met in the tennis court, or else turned into a tabling house, and played at dice and hazzard one with the other.

Holland. Plutarch, p. 185.

But the voice stirreth and hitteth against smooth and polished solid places, by which it is broken & sent back again in manner as we do see a tennis-ball when it is smitten upon a wall insomuch that in the pyramides of Egypt, one voice delivered within them, rendereth foure or five resonances or echoes for it.-Id. Ib. p. 687.

A tennis-ball whether in motion by the stroke of a racket, or lying still at rest, is not by any one taken to be a free agent.-Locke.-Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 21.

Tennis, or the pile ludus, is a truly classical game; highly esteemed by the most respectable Greeks and Romans; and recommended by Galen as one of the most salutary exercises. Knox. Winter Evenings, Even. 36.

TE'NON. TE'NENT.

Fr. Tenon, from tenir, to hold. The end of a rafter, beam, any piece of wood, &c. so cut as to let in and hold into another piece-also cut to receive it called the mortice.

Cardinals are not so called, because the hinges on which the Church of Rome doth move; but from Cardo, which signifieth the end of a tenon put into a mortais, being accordingly fixed and fastened to their respective churches. Fuller. Worthies. Generall.

There is a fair house on London Bridge, commonly called None-such, which is reported to be made without either nailes or pins, with crooked tennons fastened with wedges and other (as I may term them) circumferential devices. Id. Ib. Staffordshire.

If chance could make a beam of a house, and could have made tenents at either end, yet it is not possible to conceive that chance could cast it to be just of a fit length to answer the congruity of its contignation to another piece of timber, or fit the mortises of other pieces of timber to those tenents, or fit the particles and scantlets to answer just one another. Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 330.

A mortice and tenon, or ball and socket joint, is wanted at the hip, that not only the progressive step may be provided for, but the interval between the limbs may be enlarged or contracted at pleasure. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 8.

TE'NOUR. Fr. Teneur ; It. Tenore; Sp. Tenor; Lat. Tenor, tenere; Gr. Telv-eiv, tendere, extendere, to stretch; nam ut teneamus, nervos extendimus. (Tenor, anciently called tonor, Gr. Tovos, Quintil. lib. i. c. 5.) Tenour,

The course kept or held; progress, order, kept or continued; the continuance or continuity, purport or purpose; mode or manner pursued.

In music (generally) the tone; but distinguished from treble and base.

Than, as aboue is sayde, to auoyde the enormytees, and to refourme the euyll rule than vsyd in the lande by suche personys as daylye were about the kynge, many & dyuerse ordenaucis were made, wherof the tenoure is sette out in the ende of this boke.-Fabyan. Chronycle, an. 1257.

And we knowe well that who soeuer wyll iust with you shall fynde you here these thyrty dayes, acordynge to the tenoure of your chalenge.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 168.

Ye shall not any where lacke any one of all these thynges, yf ye shall wyth pure hertes accordynge to the lenuure of my commandemente, diligentlye prouide and laboure that the gospel goe foreward and daily encrease. Udal. Luke, o. 9.

And the receivd opinion of the thing,
For some unhallow'd string that vilely jarr'd,
Hath so unseason'd now the ears of men,
That who doth touch the tenour of that vein,
Is held but vain.
Daniel. Musophilus.

Base striketh more air, than it can well strike equally: and the trebble cutteth the air so sharp, as it returneth too swift, to make the sound equall; and therefore a mean, or tenor, is the sweetest part.-Bacon. Naturall Hist. § 173.

Lo, now reuiuing my disastrous stile,
I prosecute the tenour of my fate,
And follow forth at danger's highest rate,
In forraine realmes my fortune for a while.

All of a tenour was their after-life,
No day discolour'd with domestick strife;
No jealousy, but mutual truth believ'd,
Secure repose, and kindness undeceiv'd.

Stirling, s. 56.

Dryden. The Cock and the Fox. The whole tenor of the gospels and epistles shows, that human virtues are all light in the balance, and have no proper efficacy in themselves for procuring salvation. Waterland. Works, vol. v. p. 473. TENSE. Fr. Temps; It. Tempo; Lat. Tempus. See the quotations.

There are only three simple tenses or times; the present, future, as amabo, I shall or will love.-Port-Royal, c. 15. as amo, I love; the past, as amavi, I have loved; and the

The tenses are used to mark present, past, and future time, either indefinitely without reference to any beginning, middle, or end; or else definitely, in reference to such dis tinctions.-Harris. Hermes, b. i. c. 7.

Saint Paul's tent-making was as much against the calling of an apostle, as sitting in a secular tribunal is against the office of a bishop.-Bp. Taylor. Episcopacy asserted.

The smiles of knaues

from Bacon in v. TENT.

He that in this wise hath appeased and setled the trouble or tension of the spirits in the center of the body, if haply there should remaine some superfluity behind, it would do him no great harme.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 509.

For gold (as we see) is the closest. (and therefore the heaviest) of metals: and is likewise the most flexible and tensible.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 327.

All bodies ductile, and tensile, [as metals] that will be drawne into wires; wooll and towe that will be drawn into yarn, or thred; have in them the appetite of not discontinuing, strong.-Id. Ib. § 845.

For the libration or reciprocation of the spirits in the tensility of the muscles would not be so perpetual, but cease in a small time, did not some more mystical principle then what is merely mechanical give assistance.

More. Immortality of the Soul, b. ii. c. 10.

The skin was tense, also rimpled and blistered.

Wiseman. Surgery. Should the pain and tenseness of the part continue, the operation must take place.-Sharp. Surgery.

But others there were amongst the ancient atomists, who could not conceive sensations themselves, to be thus caused by corporeal effluvia, or exuvious membranes, streaming from bodies continually, and that for divers reasons alledged by them; but only by a pressure upon the optick nerve by reason of a tension of the intermedious air or æther. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 851. From choler is a hot burning pain; a beating pain from the pulse of the artery; a tensive pain from distention of the parts by the fulness of humours.-Floyer. On Humours. When Fancy's vivid spark impels the soul To scorn quotidian scenes, to spurn the bliss Of vulgar minds, what nostrum shall compose Its fatal tension ? Shenstone. Economy, pt. i. The string which is constantly kept in a state of tension will vibrate on the slightest impulse.-Knox. Ess. No. 21.

TENT. From tend, to heed,-take tent, i. c. take heed, take care. (See TEND.) It is the same word as the following, though so differently applied.

But the Spirit seith openli, that in the laste tymes summen schulen departe fro the feith ghyuynge tent to spiritis of errour.-Wiclif. 1 Tymo. c. 4.

Til I come take tent to redynge, to exortacioun, and techyng.-Id. Ib.

An arowe out of a bowe

All sodenly within a throwe

The soldan smote, and there he laie.

The chas is left for thilke daie,
And he was bore in to a lent.

Gower. Con. 4. b. il. The two Turkes deliuered them a letter for to beare to the lord great master from the great Turke, and then returned safely into their tents.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 90.

No lesse this matter passeth in thought, the the short cloath dooeth in a false weauers hande. Ye haue streigned it on the tentours, and drawen it on the perche, for to lengthen the life.-Golden Boke, Let. 5.

But most men ordinarily do fault herein exceeding much: now when they be wearied, toyled, and foiled with painfull labours and wants, yeeld their bodies to be melted and spent quite with voluptuous pleasures; and afterwards againe, wrest and straine them as it were upon the teinters, immediately upon the fruition of some pleasures.

Holland. Plutarch, p. 513.

spread from tree to tree.-Evelyn, b. iv. § 8.

Upon the mount the king his tentage fixt, And in the town the barons lay in sight.

Howbeit yf we well consyder these twoo thinges, tentation and persecucion, wee maye finde that eyther of theym is incydente into the tother. For bothe by tentacion the diuel persecuteth vs, and by persecucion the dyuell also tempteth vs. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1177.

But yf when the plage hangeth ouer our heads thre or four of the are not sufficiet to cofirme & strengthen vs, truly an hundreth shuld be sufficiet to ouerco al aduersete & contrary tentatios.-Caluinc. Foure Sermons, Ser. 2.

Dauid in dede knew right wel yt he was banished from Jury not wtoute God's prouidēce: yet is he not thereby stayed nor letted to conie vnto God & to make his complaints vnto him: not because his tentation was easie & light, for he semed vtterly to be cast of fro God if we only cōsider ye miserable state of this present life.-Id. Ib. Ser.3. Falshood, though it be but tentative, is neither needed nor Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. ii. approved by the God of truth; if policy have allowed officious untruths; religion never. At some times Bp. Hall. Cont. Jehu killing the Sons of Ahab. We fear he will be bankrupt; he do's stretch Tenter his credit so; embraces all, The Parisian miracles were tentative. Out of many thouAnd to't, the winds have been contrary long. sand sick, infirm and diseased persons, who resorted to the tomb, the professed history of the miracles contains only nine cures.-Paley. Evidences, pt. i. c. 2. Prop. 2.

Beaum. & Fletch. Beggar's Bush, Act ii. sc. 3.

I have put all my small knowledge, observations, and reading, upon the tenter, to satisfy your lordship's desires touching this subject.-Howell, b. ii. Let. 60.

Next them

My gentlemen, my cavaliers and captains,
Ten deep and trapt with tenter-hooks to take hold
Of all occasions.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Mad Lover, Act ii.

This motion upon pressure, and the reciprocall thereof, which is motion upon tensure, we use to call (by one common name) motion of liberty; which is, when any body, being forced to a preternaturall extent, or dimension, delivereth and restoreth it self to the naturall: as when a blown bladder (pressed) riseth again; or when leather or cloth tentured spring back.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 12.

The Shabander of Achin had a tent set up there, he being the chief manager of her affairs; and for the more security, he had 2 or 3 small brass guns of a minion bore planted by his tent all the day, with their muzzles against the river. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1688. "Seam'd o'er with wounds, which his own sabre gave, In the vile habit of a village-slave, The foe deceiv'd, he passed the tented plain, In Troy to mingle with the hostile train."

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. iv.

Easily we may imagine what acerbity of pain must be endured by our Lord, in his tender limbs being stretched forth, racked, and tentered, and continuing for a good time in such a posture.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 32.

I would not detract from his [Regulus] merit, nor pretend to dive into the exact situation of his thoughts, therefore shall suppose what I conceive possible in theory, that he might feel so strong a satisfaction of mind as over bal

lanced the pain of the tenters.

TENT, n. TENT, VI (Skinner.)

Search. Light of Nature, vol. i. pt. ii. c. 29.

Fr. Tente; Sp. Tienta, a tentando seu explorando abscessum,

That which tries, probes, examines; the probe; applied to that which is inserted into a tented or probed sore. To tentTo probe, to search.

Ile haue these players

Play something like the murder of my father,
Before mine vnkle. Ile obserue his lookes,
Ile tent him to the quicke: if he but blench

I know my course.-Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act ii. sc. 2.
Com. Should they not:

Well might they fester 'gainst ingratitude,
And tent themselues with death.

Id. Coriolanus, Act i. sc. 9.

Mene. For 'tis a sore vpon vs,
You cannot tent your selfe; begone, 'beseech you.
Id. Ib. Act iii. sc. 1.

Oh that I had my boxes, and my lints now,
My stupes, my tents, and those sweet helps of nature.
Beaum. & Fletch. The Sea Voyage, Act iii.

The next day he complaining of pain, I open'd the wound, and found it tented at both orifices, the arm swell'd, and a little disturbed; as wounds in that place are subject to be, when the blood is shut in by tents, and not dress'd rationally by astringents and good bandage.

Wiseman. Surgery, b. v. c. 6. TENTATION. Į Fr. Tentation; Sp. TentaTENTATIVE. tion; Lat. Tentatio, from tent-are, to try, to tempt. Trial, or temptation. Tentative,That can or mav try; experimental.

TENUIOUS. Į Fr. Tenue, ténuité; It. Tènue, TENUITY. tenuild, Sp. Tenue, tenuidad; Lat. Tenuis, which (Vossius thinks) means stretched (tensus,) sc. till the thickness of the substance is drawn or extended, over a broad surface, to a thin, slender state.

Thin, slender; unsubstantial; slight, small.
Those freckles thou supposest me disgrace,
Are those pure parts that in my lovely face,
By their so much tenuity do slight,
My brother's beams assisting me with light.

Drayton. The Man in the Moon. By reason of this tenuity and continuity, when oyle doth froath or fome, it suffereth no wind or spirit to enter it. Holland. Plutarch, p. 607.

The subtlety and tenuity whereof [body of our Saviour Christ] appeared, from his entring in when the doors were shut, and his vanishing out of sight. - Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 799. The thing I speak of is as easie to be apprehended, as how infection should pass in certain tenuious streams through the air, from one house to another.

Glanvill, Ess. 6.

If you say that it is a corporeal substance, you can understand no other than matter more subtile and tenuious then the animal spirits themselves, mingled with them and dispersed through the vessels and porosities of the body.

More. Antidote against Atheism, b. i. c. 11. They must needs conceive that death reduces us to a pitiful thin pittance of being, that our substance is in a manner lost, and nothing but a tenuious reek remains. Id. Immortality of the Soul, b. iii. c. 2. Now by reason of its gross consistency, it [the body] is an unwieldy luggage to the soul, and doth very much clog and incumber her in her operations; it will then be wrought into so fine and tenuious a substance, as that instead of a clog, it will be a wing to the soul.

Scott. Christian Life, pt. ii. c. 7.

Now how astonishing soever it may appear to find a drop of wax shattered into such a multitude of pieces, our astonishment must encrease when we reflect on the great tenuity of the wax, and how far it is from being a solid substance. Search. Light of Nature, vol. i. pt. ii. c. 3.

In the iris of the eye, and the drum of the ear, the tenuity of the muscles is astonishing. They are microscopic hairs; must be magnified to be visible; yet are they real, effective muscles.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 9.

The flood of life

Loos'd at its source by tepefying strains,

Flows like some frozen silver stream unthaw'd At a warm zephyr of the genial spring.

For a sample of this branch of my survey, let us chuse the tegument of earth-worms, which we shall find compleatly adapted to their way of life and motion, being made in the most compleat manner possible for terebrating the earth, and creeping where their occasions lead them. Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c. 12. It hath been touched before, that terebration of trees doth make them prosper better; but it is found also, that it maketh the fruit sweeter, and better. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 463.

I presently made a circular incision, and raised up that part of the hairy scalp in order to terebration, and fill'd up the wound with dossils of lint, press'd out of red wine. Wiseman. Surgery, b. v. c. 9.

TERET. Lat. Teres, (from Terere,) formed

The heauenly mansions,

. Clearely searched by smale fractions, First by seconds, terces, and eke quartes.

Chaucer. The Story of Thebes, pt. i. The middle betweene them both is 50 degrees and a terce in latitude. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 210.

This citie lieth in nine degrees and one tierce.

Id. Ib. p. 552. For I search'd every piece of wine; yes sure, sir, And every little terce, that could but testifie.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Pilgrim, Act ii. sc. 1.

This insect now, whose active spite,
Teaz'd him with never-ceasing bite,
With so much judgment play'd his part.

He had him both in tierce and quart.-Somervile, Fab. 2.

TERCEL, TA'RCEL, or TA'SSEL. TE'RCELET.

It. Terzuolo: Sp. Terzuelo; Fr. Tiercelet. The tassel, or male of any kind of hawk, so termed because he is commonly a third (tiers) part less than the female, (Cotgrave.) "The tercell egle, as ye know full wele, The foule royall, aboue you all in degre, The wise and worthie, the secret true as stele, The which I haue formed, as ye may see, In euery parte, as it best liketh mee."

Chaucer. The Assemblie of Fowles.

In which were peinted all thise false foules,
As ben thise tidifes, terceleltes, and owles.

Id. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,862. First, great store of hawks, the eagle, the gerfaulcon, the slightfaulcon, the goshawk, the tassel, the sparhawk, &c. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 479.

And bang'em up together as a tassel,
Upon the streach, a flock of fearfull pigeons.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Loyal Subject, Act i. sc. 3.

It happen'd as a boy, one night,
Did fly his tarsel of a kite.

Hudibras, pt. i. c. 3.

With empty hands no tassels you can lure, But fulsome love for gain we can endure.

Pope. The Wife of Balh.

TEREBINTH. Fr. Térébinthe; It. Terebinto; Sp. Terebinto; Lat. Terebinthus; Gr.Tepeßiveos, the turpentine tree. Vossius thinks the name Arabic. And lyke wyse as the lerebyntes and oke-trees bring forth their frutes, so shal the holy sede haue frute. Bible, 1551. Esay, c. 6.

Moreover in Syria groweth the terebinth or turpentine tree.-Holland. Plinie, b. xiii. c. 6.

Here growes melampode every where,
And teribinth, good for gotes.

"Spenser. The Shepheard's Calender. July.

To the stars nature hath given no such instruments, but made them round and teret like a globe. Fotherby. Atheom. (1622,) p. 326. TERGIVE'RSATE, v. Fr. Tergiverser ; TERGIVERSA'TION. It. Tergiversare; Sp. Tergiversar; Lat. Tergiversari. Compounded of the Lat. Tergum, and versatum, past part. of versare, to turn.

To turn the back; to turn round; to turn away, or aside; to shift, to shuffle, to evade. The Briton never tergivers'd

But was for adverse drubbing; And never turn'd his back to aught But to a post for scrubbing.

Saint George for England, pt. ii. For, to conclude, for all his crafty cauteles and tergiver sations alledged out of the law, yet neither his cause could be so defended, nor his behaviour so excused, but that he was therefore both justly imprisoned, and also in the end most lawfully deprived.

State Trials. 3 Edw. VI. 1550. Bp. Bonner. Especially in defining and determining the law upon those poyntes, whose justice is not yet so manifest, but by tergiversation of the adversary may peradventure be eftsones called into controversie.

Strype. Eccles. Mem. vol. v. App. No. 26.

Who also if he were conscious that his assumentum to the Platonick theology were not so defensible a thing, doth himself sometime as it were tergiversale and decline it by equivocating in the word Henades, taking them for the ideas, or the intelligible gods before mentioned.

Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 569.

Even so in this present case now in question; that covenant which hath an evident conclusion, and admitteth no tergiversation at all, we ought to esteem more firm and effectual.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 651.

It may be feared they are but Parthian flights, ambuscado retreats, and elusory tergiversations. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 10.

But that no suspicion of tergiversation may be fastned upon me, I am content to deal with you a little, at your own weapons.

Chillingworth. Religion of Protestants, pt. i. c. 5. § 85. Jonas the prophet discovered the like tergiversation and backwardness as to the errand he was sent upon to the Ninevites.-Waterland, vol. ix. Ser. 9.

TE'RIN, (a bird.) Fr. Tarin. A little singing bird, having a yellowish body, and an ash-coloured head, (Cotgrave.)

And thrustles, terins, and mauise.

TERM, n. TERM, V. TE'RMER. TERMINE, V. TE'RMLESS. TE'RMLY, adj. TE'RMLY, ad. TERMINATE, V. TERMINATION. TERMINATIVE. TERMINATIVELY. TERMINABLE.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. Fr. Term, terminer; It. Tèrmine, terminàre; Sp. Termino, terminar; Lat. Terminus, terminare, from Gr. Τέρμονος, τερμων, a limit or bound. See DETERMINE.

A limit or bound, a confine or end; a limited or definite space, duration, or period of time; a definite or fixed form of speech or language; definite or precise words or names; definite or precise articles or particulars_bargained er agreed upon, stipulated or required, as conditions of bargain or agreement, conditions, or requisite circumstances.

To terminate,-to limit, to bound; to reach, or come to; to fix the limit or bound, the confine, the end, the conclusion; to finish, to end, to conclude.

For in his termes he wol him so winde,
And speke his wordes in so slie a kinde,
Whan he comunen shal with any wight,
That he wol make him doten anon right.

Id. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,446.

Thus selde is seene, the trouth to termine,
That age and youth draw by o line,
And where that folly hath domination,
Wisdome is put in subjection.

Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. iii. his pilgrimage, that is to witte as maister Gersonne in the Now doth this ma al this while two ways actually cōtinue Latin tong termeth it, in a naturall continuance, and in a moral continuance.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1376.

M. What fruit would then come of penaunce? Tyndall. Of your iugglyng terme penaunce I can not affirme.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 320.

Then Mychelmas came, and the generall cousayle began, suche as Englysshemen call the terme, wherin all maters be debated.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 204.

And we must considre howe this comparison of the two chaunges is made as it were by proportion. Wherin eche chaunge hath his special ende and terme, (whervnto): and chaunge, speciall and seuerall both by God's worke. therfore accordynge to terme and ende, hath his worke of

Bp. Gardner. Explication. Of the Presence, fol. 109. And although the thing which is terminable, and hath an end, is called sometimes perpetuall; yet because in holy scripture, and in vse of the church, and in the bookes of philosophers most commonly that is taken to bee perpetuall, which hath no end of time hereafter to come.

Stale Trials. 6 Rich. II. 1583. John Wicliffe.

These being summoned to appeare before the iustices, with one Hugh Aberneth, and other of their complices, vpon their contempt so to doo, were proclamed traitors, and as the Scotish men tearme it, put to the horne.

Holinshed. Historie of Scotland, an. 1250. (I knew) which were the tearmers, That would give velvet petticoats, tissue gowns, Which-pieces, angels, suppers, and half crowns. Beaum. & Fletch. Wit at Several Weapons, Act i. Nor have my title-leafe on posts, or walls, Or in cleft sticks, advanced to make calls For termers, or some clerck-like serving man.

B. Jonson, Epig. 3. How absurd had these guests been, if they had termined the thanks in the servitors; and had said, "We have it from you; whence ye had it, is no part of our care." Bp. Hall. Cont. Five Loaves & Two Fishes. "Small show of man was yet upon his chin, His phenix down began but to appear, Like unshorn velvet, on that termless skin, Whose bare out-brag'd the web it seem'd to wear." Shakespeare. A Lover's Complaint. The clerks are partly rewarded by that mean also [petty fees] for their entries, discharges, and some other writings, besides that termly fee which they are allowed. Bacon. On the Office of Alienations. The fees, or allowances, that are termly given to these pains, I do purposely pretermit; because they be not cerdeputies, receiver, and clerks, for recompence of these their

tain, but arbitrary.-Id. Ib.

(First sitting vp in her soft bed) her eyes
Opened with teares, in care of her estate,
Which now, her friends resolu'd to terminate
To more delaies; and make her marry one.

Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. xx.

It is to be considered there is a double consent to a pro. position, the one is direct, the other a reflex; the first is directly terminated upon the honesty or dishonesty of the object, the other upon the manner of it, and modality. Bp.Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. i. c. 4.