a. Obs. [f. L. tentīgo, -in-em (see next) + -OUS.]
1. Excited to lust; itching, lecherous.
1616. B. Jonson, Devil an Ass, II. iii. Were you tentiginous? ha? Would you be acting of the Incubus?
2. Provocative of lust; lascivious.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XVI. 569. What he here orders to be given is heating and therefore tentiginous.
1704. Swift, Mech. Operat. Spirit, ii. Misc. (1711), 308. Nothing affects the Head so much as a tentigenous Humour, repel’d and elated to the upper Region.
