Teen

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure.

(2): ( v. t.) To hedge or fence in; to inclose.

(3): ( n.) Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Chinese, heaven), a word generally used by the early Roman Catholic missionaries to denote the Supreme Being; but, to render it more evidently descriptive of a person, the Inquisition ordered the addition to it of the word Choo, "Lord?" Thus Teen-Choo meant "Lord of heaven," and came to be the recognized appellative of God by Romish converts. The Protestant missionaries rejected Teen, and substituted Shin or Shang-te.