ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tentigo, -inis, (a tension, lecherousness) + –ous
EXAMPLE
“…O wife, the rarest man! yet there’s another
To put you in mind o’ the last.
Such a brave man, wife!
Within, he has his projects, and do’s vent ‘hem,
The gallantest! where you tentiginous? ha?
Would you be acting of the Incubus?
Did her silkes rustling move you?…”
From: The Divell is an Asse A Comedie
By Ben Jonson
First performed 1616
First published In Workes of Benjamin Jonson, 1631
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