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Adjective
tensible (comparative more tensible, superlative most tensible)
- Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensile.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- Gold […] is likewise the most flexible and tensible.
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