tenor ōris, m 2 TA-, a holding on, continuance, uninterrupted course, career: hasta servat tenorem, keeps its direction, V.: (aulaea) placido educta tenore Tota patent, by a steady motion, O.

—Fig., a course, tenor, career, movement: rerum, L.: pugnae, L.: vitae, O.: plebem eodem tenore colo, persistently, L.: eodem tenore duo consulatūs gessi, following the same policy, L.: Non . . . dies alium tenuisse tenorem Crediderim, V.

—In the phrase, uno tenore, in one course, uninterruptedly, uniformly, steadily, progressively: isque (stilus medius) uno tenore, ut aiunt, fluit in dicendo: brevis res est, si uno tenore peragitur, L.