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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tenuis  \Ten"u*is\,  n.;  pl  {Tenues}.  [NL.,  fr  L.  tenuis  fine, 
  thin.  See  {Tenuous}.]  (Gr.  Gram.) 
  One  of  the  three  surd  mutes  [kappa],  [pi],  [tau];  --  so 
  called  in  relation  to  their  respective  middle  letters,  or 
  medials,  [gamma],  [beta],  [delta],  and  their  aspirates, 
  [chi],  [phi],  [theta].  The  term  is  also  applied  to  the 
  corresponding  letters  and  articulate  elements  in  other 
  languages. 

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