Meaning of tenent | Babel Free

Definitions

A tenet.

obsolete

Examples

“Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.”

“I answer, if Queene Elizabeth according to the Answerers Tenent and Conſcience, did well to perſecute according to her conſcience, King Iames did not ill in perſecuting according to his[…]”

“Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.”

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