n. [ L. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See Tenable. ] Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true;
That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, . . . is a tenet very questionable. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with contempt. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]