Category:Tenet

Ten"et, n. Etym: [l. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See Tenable.]

Defn: any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a Person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of plato or of Cicero. That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea,. . . is a Tenet very questionable. Sir t. Browne. The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with Contempt. Macaulay.

Syn. -- dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position. See dogma.