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† ˈtensure Obs.
[ad. mod.L. tensūra stretching, f. tendĕre to stretch: see -ure.]
Stretching, strain; = tension.
1611L. Barrey Ram Alley Epil. in Hazl. Dodsley X. 380 But he..Submits the tensures of his pains To those, whose wit and nimble brains Are able best to judge. 1626Bacon Sylva §12 This Motion upon Pressure, and the Reciprocall thereof, which is Motion upon Tensure; we use to call (by one common Name) Motion of Liberty. 1653R. G. tr. Bacon's Hist. Winds 318 As for the freeing from tensure or stretching. 1672Wallis in Phil. Trans. VII. 5165 Its Spring being of a like tensure with that of the outward Air. |