/tɛnˈtæmɪnə/.tentamenn.
/tɛnˈteɪmən//tɛnˈtæmɪnə/. An attempt, trial, experiment.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > an attempt
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > [noun] > an experiment
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1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd II. 284 After this Tentamen of your veracity you tax me for saying, ‘'Tis demonstrable [etc.]’.
1736 Chesterfield in Fog's Jrnl. No. 376 An essay or tentamen to some greater design.
1863 N. W. Senior Biographical Sketches 387 [Bacon's Essays] were intended,..as the word essay in its original acceptation expresses, to be tentamina; not finished treatises, but sketches, to be filled up by the reader.
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