Instead, when the governor of the town urged him to surrender rather than make resistance, the desperate captain had him hanged and his body cast into the river.
The Spanish court wore mourning for four days in honor of his memory (L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 103).
Here is Courtesy, with a translation long thought to be by Chaucer:- Apres se tenoit Cortoisie Qui moult estoit de tous prisie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenoit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.