tenet

[Latin=he holds, 3d pers. sing. pr. indic. of teneo =to hold.] Any opinion, principle, doctrine, or dogma which a person holds, believes, or maintains as true. "So that men will disbelieve their own eyes, renounce the evidence of their senses, and give their own experience the lie rather than admit of anything disagreeing with these sacred tenets."-Locke Human Underst ., bk. iv., ch. XX. těn'-föld, a. or adv. [Eng. ten, and fold.] Ten times as many or as great; ten times greater or more.