Word Meanings - TENET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: TENET

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TENET)

• Doctrine
• Tenet
• article
• belief
• creed
• dogma
• teaching
• precept
• principle
• Principle
• Source
• origin
• motive
• cause
• energy
• substance
• element
• power
• faculty
• truth
• tenet
• law
• doctrine
• axiom
• maxim
• postulate
• rule

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• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DOGMATIC
  One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
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  In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event.
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  Creatural; characteristic of a creature. "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.
• CREATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to creation.
• CREMOR
  Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum.
• CRENELATION
  The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.
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• UNDERSECRETARY
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• INCREPATION
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