||Ten"e*bræ (?), n. [L., pl., darkness.] (R. C. Ch.) The matins and
||lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the
||sufferings and death of Christ, — usually sung on the afternoon or
||evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the
||following days.
||
Te*neb"ri*cose` (?), a. [L. tenebricosus.] Tenebrous; dark; gloomy.
[Obs.]
Ten`e*brif"ic (?), a. [L. tenebrae darkness + facere to make.]
Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy.
It lightens, it brightens, The tenebrific scene.
Burns.
Where light Lay fitful in a tenebrific time.
R. Browning.
Ten`e*brif"ic*ous (?), a. Tenebrific.
Authors who are tenebrificous stars.
Addison.
Te*ne"bri*ous (?), a. Tenebrous. Young.
Ten"e*brose` (?), a. Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.
Ten`e*bros"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being tenebrous;
tenebrousness. Burton.
Ten"e*brous (?), a. [L. tenebrosus, fr. tenebrae darkness: cf. F.
ténébreux.] Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. — Ten"e*brous*ness, n.
The most dark, tenebrous night.
J. Hall (1565).
The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress.
Longfellow.
Ten"e*ment (?), n. [OF. tenement a holding, a fief, F. tènement, LL.
tenementum, fr. L. tenere to hold. See Tenant.] 1. (Feud. Law) That
which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord
or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service;
fief; fee.
2. (Common Law) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so
as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an
advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; —
called also free or frank tenements.
The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a "tenant," and the
manner of possession is called "tenure."
Blackstone.
3. A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment,
or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house
erected to be rented.