tenet (tenet)

[L. tenet, he holds, 3d pers. sing. pres. ind. of tenere, hold: see tenant. Cf. habitat. Cf. also tenent3.] Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine which a person, school, or sect holds or maintains as true. That all animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, although received as a principle, is a tenet very question Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 24. able. Though my scheme was not wholly without religion, there was in it no mark of any of the distinguishing tenets of any particular sect. Franklin , Autobiog., p. 141. In the tenet of justification, the believer is himself in contact with the miracle of Christ's atonement, and applies Christ's merits to himself. M. Arnold , Literature and Dogma, ix. =Syn. Precept, Dogma, etc. See doctrine. ten fingers (ten'fing"gèrz), п. A starfish with ten arms. Compare fivefinger, 3. tenioid, a. Middle ton , Spanish Gypsy, ii. 1. See tænioid . [Named after Rather (O Iacob) chuse we all to die, Than to betray our Native Libertie; Than to becom the sporting Tennis - ball Of a proud Monarch. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Captaines. To the Ianizaries furie, who made Tennis - balls of their heads. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 287. tennis-court (ten'is-kōrt), n. 1. An oblong edifice in which the game of tennis is played. See tennis , 1. The more spacious that the tennis - court is, The more large is the hazard. Webster, Devil's Law-Case, ii. 3. 2. The court upon which the game of lawn tennis is played. gray or iron-black color, ma ive or crystallized, found in Cornwall, England, and elsewhere. It is a sulphid of arsenic with copper and iron, and differs from tetrahedrite in containing arsenic in place of antimony; between the two species there are many intermediate compounds. Great Britain.] And you don't like me well enough to borrow a few tenners just to carry on the war with? Mi Braddon , Rupert Godwin, I. 221. Tenne ee an (ten-e-se'an), a. and n. [ II. n. A native or an inhabitant of Tenne ee, one of the southern United States, lying south of Kentucky. Tenne ee bond cases. See case1 . tenney (ten'e), n. In her ., same as tenné . tennis (ten'is), n. [Early mod. E. also tennise , tennys, tennes, ten is , tenys , tenyse ; tenisia ; also teniludium , 'tennis play'); appar. of OF. origin, but no OF. term appears. The notion that the word is derived from OF. tenez , 'hold' or 'take' (i. e. 'take this ball'), conjectured to be a cry of the player who serves, is purely imaginary, and it is inconsistent with the usage of the time (ME. nouns were not formed offhand from OF. imperatives).] 1. A very old and elaborate ball-game played by two, three, or four persons in a building specially constructed for the purpose. The court (96 feet by 32) is surrounded by a wall, from which a sloping roof called the penthouse extends on three sides to an inner wall 7 feet high; and a net 5 feet high at the ends to 3 in the middle is placed acro the court. The first player (the server ) hits a ball with a racket so that it strikes the penthouse or the wall above it, and rebounds into the court on his opponent's side of the net. The opposing player (the striker - out ) has to strike the ball back into the server's court before it strikes the ground, or on its first bound. The player who is the first to drive the ball into the net or beyond the prescribed boundary loses a stroke. If a player fails to return the ball before it strikes the ground twice, a chase is noted against him on the marked floor. This does not count at the time, but a stroke may be won or lost from it by subsequent play. When two chases have been ers made, change or when ends. the Strokes score are of one won side and reaches lost in various 40, the play other ways besides those mentioned above (as by driving the ball into certain openings in the inner wall), the game being extremely complicated. The mode of scoring (by 15, 30, 40, and game, with deuce and advantage) has been taken from this game by lawn-tennis. Tennis arose in Europe during the middle ages, and was very popular. It is now played under the name of court - tennis, to distinguish it from lawn - tennis. See racket2 and lawn - tennis. Item, that no man pley at tenys or pame withyn the yeld halle. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 372. I had as leve to e a ball here alone as to play at the tenys over the corde with the. Palsgrave , p. 760. Tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick eye and a body ready to put itself into all postures. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. 172. 2. Same as lawn - tennis . I will reward thee Once for thy spritely comfort, and ten - fold For thy good valour. Shak., A. and C., iv. 7. 15. ten-forties (ten'fôr'tiz), n. pl. [Short for ten forty bonds: see def.] The popular name for certain five per cent. bonds i ued by the government of the United States in 1864, redeemable at any time after ten years, and payable at the end of forty years. as a ball in playing tennis. These fowre garrisons i uing foorthe, at such convenient times as they shall have intelligence or espiall upon the enemye, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him among est them, that he shall finde no where safe to keep his creete [cattle]. Spenser, State of Ireland. tennis-arm (ten'is-ärm), n. A lamene of tennis-players, said to be caused by a rupture of some of the fibers of the pronator radii teres. ten-o'clock (ten'ō-klok'), n. The common star of-Bethlehem, Ornithogalum umbellatum: so called from the tardy opening of the flowers. Compare four - o'clock.