TEN 
To provoke. 
I’m much too venturous 
In tempting of your patience. S/ia/cspcare . 
It is sometimes used without any notion of evil; to solicit; 
to draw. 
Still his strength conceal’d 
Which tempted our attempt, and wrought our fall. Milton. 
To try ; to attempt; to venture on. I know not whether 
it was not originally f attempt, which was viciously written 
to tempt, by an elision of the wrong syllable. To prove; 
to try. 
He stayde his hand, and gan himselfe advise 
To prove his sense, and tempt her feigned truth. Spenser. 
TEMSE BREAD, or Te'msee Bread, s . [ temsen, 
Dutch; tamiser , Fr.; tamcsare, Italian, to sift; terns, 
Dutch; tamis, French; tamiso, Italian, a sieve; all from 
the-Saxon temepan. Lye.~\ Bread made of flour better 
sifted than common. 
TE'MPTABLE, adj. Liable to temptation; obnoxious 
to bad influence. Not elegant, nor used .—If the parlia¬ 
ment were as tempt.able as any other assembly, the managers 
must fail for want of tools to work with. Swift. 
TEMPTATION, s. [temptacion , old French.] The 
act of tempting; solicitation to ill; enticement.—All temp¬ 
tation to transgress repel. Milton .—The state of being 
tempted. When by human weakness, and the arts of the 
tempter, you are led into temptations, prayer is the thread 
to bring you out of this labyrinth. Duppa .—That which 
is offered to the mind as a motive to ill.—Set a deep glass 
of Rhenish wine on the contrary casket; for if the devil be 
within, and that temptation without, he will chuse it, Shak- 
speare. 
TEMPTA'TIONLESS, adj. Having no motive. Not 
in use .—An empty, profitless, temptationless sin. Ham¬ 
mond. 
TE'MPTER, s. One who solicits to ill; an enticer. 
Is this her fault or mine ? 
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most ? 
Not she; nor doth she tempt. Shakspeare, 
The infernal solicitor to evil.—To this high mountain’s 
top the tempter brought our Saviour. Milton . 
TE'MPTINGLY, adv. So as to tempt or entice.—These 
look temptingly. Sir T. Herbert.-— Precious trinkets are 
lavishly and' temptingly exposed to view. Peters. 
TE'MPTRESS, s. She that tempts or entices. Huloet. 
Be not jealous, 
Euphrania; I shall scarcely prove a temptress ; 
Fall to our dance. Ford. 
TEMSENA, a large province in the empire of Morocco, 
bordering on the Atlantic ocean. It is very productive in 
corn of an excellent quality, and abounds also in cattle. 
The best cavalry in the empire are found in this province. 
TEMUCO, a small river of Chili, which runs west, and 
enters the Dinguilli, 
TE'MULENCY, s. [temulentia , Lat.] Inebriation; in¬ 
toxication by liquor. Bullokar. 
TE'MULENT, adj. \_temulentus , Lat.] Inebriated; in¬ 
toxicated as with strong liquors. 
TE'MULENTIVE, adj. \temulentus, Lat.] Drunken; 
denoting the state of intoxication.—The drunkard commonly 
hath a palsied hand; gouty, staggering legs, that fain would 
go, but cannot; a drawling, stammering, temulentive 
tongue. Junius. 
TEN, adj. [cyn, Saxon; tien, Dutch. Dr. Johnson. 
—-M. Goth, tailvum; Icel. tiju: aperto lingu. affin. con¬ 
sensu. Ingeniosd satis Wachterus ab Icel, tyna, Iegere, enu- 
merare, digitos nempe omnes, quibus sine dubio numera- 
bant veteres, Serenius.—' To this numeration of the fingers 
Mr. H, Tooke also adverts; and pronounces ten the past 
participle of the Sax. eynan, to enclose, to compass. See 
Div, of Purl. ii. 201. But the Icel. tyna, to reckon, is the 
more likely etymon.] The decimal number; twice five; 
TEN 887 
the number by which we multiply numbers into new deno¬ 
minations 
Thou shalt have more 
Than two tens to a score. Shakspeare. 
Ten is a proverbial number. 
There’s a proud modesty in merit. 
Averse from begging; and resolv’d to pay 
Ten times the gift it asks. Dry den. 
TEN, a settlement of New Granada, in the province of 
San Juan de los Llanos. 
TENA, a settlement of New Granada; 8 leagues from 
Santa Fe. Population 800. 
TENABLE, adj. \t enable, Fr.] That may be main 
tained against opposition ; that may be held against attacks- 
—Infidelity has been driven out of all its outworks: the. 
Atheist has not found his post tenable, and is therefore re¬ 
tired into Deism. Addison. 
TENA'CIOUS, adj. \t.enax, Lat.] Grasping hard; in¬ 
clined to hold fast; not willing to let go : with o/before the 
thing held.—You reign absolute over the hearts of a stubborn 
and free-born people, tenacious to madness o/‘their liberty. 
Dryden. —Retentive.—The memory in some is very tena¬ 
cious ; but yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our 
ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds 
the most retentive. Locke.—[tenace, Fr.] Having parts 
disposed to adhere to each other; cohesive; viscous; gluti¬ 
nous.—Three equal round vessels filled, the one with water, 
the other with oil, the third with molten pitch, andthe li- 
quors stirred alike to give them a vertical motion ; the pitch 
by its tenacity will lose its motion quickly, the oil being less 
tenacious will keep it longer, and the water being least tena¬ 
cious will keep it longest, but yet will lose it in a short time. 
Newton. —Niggardly; close-fisted; meanly parsimonious. 
Ainsworth. 
TENA'CIOUSLY, adv. With disposition to hold fast.— 
Some things our juvenile reasons tenaciously adhere to, 
which yet our maturer judgments disallow of. G/anville. 
TENA'CIOUSNESS, s. Unwillingness to quit, resign, 
or let go.—An invincible tenaciousness of ancient customs. 
Burke. 
TENA'CITY, s. [tenacitas, t.enax, Latin.] Tenacious¬ 
ness.—The tenacity of prejudice and prescription. Brown. 
—Viscosity; glutinousness; adhesion of one part to another. 
—Substances, whose tenacity exceeds the powers of diges¬ 
tion, will neither pass, nor be converted into aliment. Ar- 
buthnot. 
TENACULUM, an instrument used in surgery, for pulling 
out bleeding vessels that are to be tied by ligatures. 
TE'NACY, s. [ tenacia, low Lat.] Unwillingness to quit, 
resign, or let go—Highest excellence is void of all envy, 
selfishness, and tenacy. Barrow. 
TENANCY, s. [tenancie, old French; tenentia, law 
Latin.] Temporary possession of what belongs to another. 
—This duke becomes seised of favour by descent, though 
the condition of that estate be commonly no more than a 
tenancy at will. Wotton. 
TENANGO, the capital of a jurisdiction of Mexico, in 
the intendancy of Mexico; 14 leagues south-west of Mexico, 
now greatly reduced, and scarcely in existence. 
TENANT, s. One that holds of another; one that on 
certain conditions has temporary possession and use of that 
which is in reality the property of another: correlative to 
landlord. 
I have been your tenant. 
And your father's tenant, these fourscore years. Shakspeare. 
One who resides in any place. 
O fields, O woods, oh when shall I be made 
The happy tenant of your shade! Cowley. 
TENANT per Statute-Merchant, he that holds lands 
forfeited to him by virtue of a statute. 
TENANT in Frank-Marriage, is he that holds lands or 
tenements by virtue of a gift of them, made to him upon 
marriage between him and his wife, 
TENANT 
