\Ten"et\, 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; 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}.