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TENNANT, CHARLES (1768-1838), Scottish industrial chemist, was born at Ochiltree, Ayrshire, on the 3rd of May 1768. He started in business as a bleacher at Darnley, and in 1798 took out a patent for a bleach liquor formed by passing chlorine into a mixture of ...

TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold), one who holds real property by some form of title from a landlord. For the forms of tenancy, &c., see LANDLORD AND TENANT.

TENNEMANN, WILHELM GOTTLIEB (1761-1819), German historian of philosophy, was born at Erfurt. Educated at his native town, he became lecturer on the history of philosophy at Jena in 1788. Ten years later he became professor at the same university, where he rema

... (on libertarian lines) by Martineau (A Study of Religion, 1883). See also F. R. Tennant's Origin and Propagation of Sin (1902) — sin a " bye-product " of a generally good evolution. Others find in the gospel of redemption the true theodicy, (d) The problem of ...

... s differing in chemical composition; the arsenic compound, CujAsSj, is known as tennantite (after Smithson Tennant). The old German name Fatten includes both tetrahedrite and tennantite, and so does the term "grey copper ore" of miners. Tefrahedrite is an impo ...