Ten"et (?), n. [L. tenet he holds, fr.
tenere to hold. See Tenable.] Any opinion, principle,
dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as,
the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, .
. . is a tenet very questionable.
Sir T.
Browne.
The religious tenets of his family he had early
renounced with contempt.
Macaulay.
Syn. -- Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position. See
Dogma.
Ten"et (?), n. [L. tenet he holds, fr.
tenere to hold. See Tenable.] Any opinion, principle,
dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as,
the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, .
. . is a tenet very questionable.
Sir T.
Browne.
The religious tenets of his family he had early
renounced with contempt.
Macaulay.
Syn. -- Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position. See
Dogma.
