tensure
English
Etymology
Latin tensura. See tension.
Noun
tensure
- (obsolete) tension
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, translation of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered
- "Thus death her life became, loss proved her tensure".
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, translation of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tensure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- neuters, retunes, run tees, senteur, tenures, tureens, unreset