| Tenement (tenement) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Ten"e*ment |
| [OF. tenement a
holding, a fief, F. tènement, LL. tenementum, fr. L.
tenere to hold. See Tenant.] |
That which is held of another by service; property which one
holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or
pecuniary service; fief; fee.
Any species of permanent
property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses,
rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a
peerage, and the like; -- called also free or frank
tenements.
A dwelling house; a building for a habitation;
also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family;
often, a house erected to be rented.
Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
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