tentiginous

comparative more tentiginous · superlative most tentiginous

1. obsoletestiff; stretched; strained

   a tentiginous State of the Fibres, stretched beyond their Power

   1727, Sir Richard Blackmore, Dissertations on a Dropsy, a Tympany, the Jaundice […] , page 97

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   I think, it is agreed among physicians, that nothing affects the head so much, as a tentiginous humour, repelled and elated to the upper region, found by daily practice to run frequently up into madness.

   c. 1710, Jonathan Swift, A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit

2. obsoletelustful, lascivious

   To wax tentiginous o'er a pretty woman

   1907, Edwin Sauter, Satires

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   Were you tentiginous? Ha? And again. Would you be acting of the incubus? Did her silks' rustling move you?

   1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass