Sekirov Dictionary

tertiate

/ˈtɜːʃɪeɪt/

verb 5
noun 3
adjective 2
forms 5

verb5

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To divide into three parts, especially to divide into thirds.
- Government draws-and-quarters our economy. Although a more accurate description might be tertiating because the one direction the government won't pull us is forward. — 2010
•
To reduce by one third; especially, kill one third of (a group of people).
- We are distinctly told that one cause of the terrible famine that has been — not decimating, but tertiating — the population of Rajpootana, has been the substitution of cotton for grain culture — 1870
To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.
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(no longer used) To increase by half as much again; especially to increase the price in this way.
- The beam made for triplicating or tertiating any weight small enough to be weighed by it. — 1757
•
(no longer used, rare) To do or perform three times or for the third time.
- A young girl of morals pervertiate Invited an old man to tertiate. She tried all she knew And her sister did too, But the darned thing just hung there inertiate. — 1968

noun3

The third year of training in various Christian religious orders (especially the Jesuits).
•
One who is in their tertiate training.
- Her first house was in New York City , on Water Street , in the neighbourhood of Jerry McAuley's mission. In 1899 she became a Dominican tertiate. — 1958
•
The third classification of animals in some ranked taxonomic systems, such as that proposed by Linnaeus.
- The designation Primates goes back to LINNAEUS, who included into this group man, apes, and monkeys (mammals being Secundates, and the other animals Tertiates). — 1967

adjective2

Having three parts.
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Having 2:3 proportion.
- The proportions are not tertiate, and there is no north gate. — 1933

forms

tertiated · tertiating · tertiates · more tertiate · most tertiate

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