Obs. [ad. mod.L. tensūra stretching, f. tendĕre to stretch: see -URE.] Stretching, strain; = TENSION.
1611. Barrey, Ram Alley, Epil., in Hazl., Dodsley, X. 380. But he … Submits the tensures of his pains To those, whose wit and nimble brains Are able best to judge.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 12. This Motion upon Pressure, and the Reciprocall thereof, which is Motion upon Tensure; we use to call (by one common Name) Motion of Liberty.
1653. R. G., trans. Bacon’s Hist. Winds, 318. As for the freeing from tensure or stretching.
1672. Wallis, in Phil. Trans., VII. 5165. Its Spring being of a like tensure with that of the outward Air.
