tentiginous
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin tentigo, tentiginis (“a tension, lecherousness”), from tendere, tentum (“to stretch”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
tentiginous (comparative more tentiginous, superlative most tentiginous)
- (obsolete) stiff; stretched; strained
- (obsolete) lustful
- 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass:
- Were you tentiginous? Ha? And again. Would you be acting of the incubus? Did her silks' rustling move you?
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “tentiginous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)