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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tentation  \Ten*ta"tion\,  n.  [L.  tentatio:  cf  F.  tentation.  See 
  {Temptation}.] 
  1.  Trial;  temptation.  [Obs.]  --Sir  T.  Browne. 
 
  2.  (Mech.)  A  mode  of  adjusting  or  operating  by  repeated 
  trials  or  experiments.  --Knight. 

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