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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
TEN'OR, n. [L. tenor, from teneo, to hold.]
A state of holding on in a continuous course;
manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course;
career.
Along the cool sequestered vale of life That course of thought which holds on through a
discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent;
meaning; understanding.
When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor. Shak. Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility and meekness to all men? Spart. Stamp; character; nature.
This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor. Dryden. An exact copy of a writing, set
forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which
is only the substance or general import of the instrument.
Bouvier. The higher of the two kinds of voices usually
belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this
voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from
the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were
auxillary.
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