tenuious
adj/tɪˈnjuː.i.əs/
Etymology From Latin tenuis (“thin, slight”) + -ous.
1
Archaic Rare or subtle; tenuous.
- more tenuious Substance , as was above observed , than that very igneous Substance mentioned in the third Proposition1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus:
- A tenuious emanation or continued effluvium, which after some distance retracteth into itself; as is observable in drops of syrups, oil, and seminal viscosities[…]1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC: