Category:Tenable

Ten"a*ble, a. Etym: [f. tenable, fr. tenir to hold, l. tenere. See Thin, and cf. Continue, continent, entertain, maintain, tenant, Tent.]

Defn: capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an Assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a Tenable fortress, a tenable argument. If you have hitherto concealed his sight, let it be tenable in your Silence still. Shak. I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it was Tenable. Sir w. Scott.