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‖ tentamen|tɛnˈteɪmən|
Pl. tentamina |-ˈæmɪnə|.
[L. tentāmen, f. tentāre = temptāre to try: see tempt.]
An attempt, trial, experiment.
1673Marvell Reh. Transp. II. 284 After this Tentamen of your veracity you tax me for saying, ‘'Tis demonstrable [etc.]’. 1736Chesterfield in Fog's Jrnl. No. 376 An essay or tentamen to some greater design. 1863N. W. Senior Biog. Sk. 387 [Bacon's Essays] were intended,..as the word essay in its original acceptation expresses, to be tentamina; not finished treatises, but sketches, to be filled up by the reader. |