Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not tenable; untenable; not to be held or maintained.
  • Incapable of containing. Also intenible.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible

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From in- +‎ tenable.

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