Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Excited to lust.
  • Producing lasciviousness; lascivious.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Stiff; stretched; strained.
  • adjective obsolete Lustful, or pertaining to lust.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete stiff; stretched; strained
  • adjective obsolete lustful

Etymologies

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Latin tentigo, tentiginis, a tension, lecherousness, from tendere, tentum, to stretch.

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  • a. 1. Stiff; stretched; strained.

    2. Lustful, or pertaining to lust.

    December 11, 2007