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2. (Common Law) 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 or frank tenements.
The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a "tenant," and the manner of possession is called
"tenure." Blackstone. 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.
Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of
frontispiece? Locke. Tenement house, commonly, a dwelling house erected for the purpose of being rented, and divided
into separate apartments or tenements for families. The term is often applied to apartment houses occupied
by poor families.
Syn. — House; dwelling; habitation. — Tenement, House. There may be many houses under one
roof, but they are completely separated from each other by party walls. A tenement may be detached
by itself, or it may be part of a house divided off for the use of a family.
Tenemental
(Ten`e*men"tal) a. Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants. Blackstone.
Tenementary
(Ten`e*men"ta*ry) a. Capable of being leased; held by tenants. Spelman.
Tenent
(Ten"ent) n. [L. tenent they hold, 3d pers. pl. pres. of tenere.] A tenet. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.
Teneral
(Ten"er*al) a. [L. tener, - eris, tender, delicate.] (Zoöl.) 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
(Ten`er*iffe") n. A white wine resembling Madeira in taste, but more tart, produced in Teneriffe,
one of the Canary Islands; — called also Vidonia.
Tenerity
(Te*ner"i*ty) n. [L. teneritas. See Tender, a.] Tenderness. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
Tenesmic
(Te*nes"mic) a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus.
Tenesmus
(||Te*nes"mus) n. [NL., fr. Gr. fr. to stretch: cf. L. tenesmos.] (Med.) 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.
Vesical tenesmus, a similar sensation as to the evacuation of urine, referred to the region of the bladder.
Tenet
(Ten"et) n. [L. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See Tenable.] Any opinion, principle, dogma,
belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, . . . is a tenet very questionable. Sir T. Browne.
The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with contempt. Macaulay. Syn. — Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position. See Dogma.
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