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teˈnuious, a. Now rare.
[f. L. tenui-s thin + -ous (cf. lugubri-ous).]
Thin, attenuated.
1. = tenuous 1.
1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. v. lxiv. I viij b/1 The skynne of the vysage is more tenurus [? tenuius; orig. alijs tenuior] & thynne. 1656Blount Glossogr., Tenuious, Tenuous,..slender, thin [etc.]. 1659Stanley Hist. Philos. xiii. (1701) 563/1 A natural Philosopher, who conceived that all things are generated of tenuious little Bodies. 1698J. Keill Exam. Th. Earth (1734) 185 Not huge lumps of solid matter, but little tenuious particles or small dust.
2. = tenuous 2.
1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. xi. (1678) 274 The Aqua vitæ..is of so tenuious a substance, that it presently vanisheth into the air. 1696Whiston Th. Earth iv. (1722) 317 The Atmosphere would..become in a greater degree tenuious. 1757Walker in Phil. Trans. L. 130, I observed a tenuious blueish vapour rising. 1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) II. 73 These mists are so tenuious.
3. fig. = tenuous 3.
1656Stanley Hist. Philos. I. v. 148 The tenuious, loose, remisse phantasy. 1885G. Meredith Diana xii, Emma went through a sphere of tenuious reflections in a flash. |