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ternion|ˈtɜːnɪən|
[ad. L. terniōn-em a company of three, a triad.]
1. A set of three (things or persons); a triad.
1587Holinshed Chron. III. 207/2 A quadrangle in geometrie compriseth in it a triangle, and a quaternion in arithmetike conteineth a ternion. 1600Holland Livy xxv. v. 548 The Senate..agreed that there should bee chosen two Ternions of Triumvirs. 1652Bp. Hall Invis. World i. §7 Disposing them [angels] into Ternions of three general Hierarchies. a1661Fuller Worthies, Surrey (1662) iii. 83 That happy Ternion of Brothers, whereof two eminent Prelats, the third, Lord Mayor of London. 1820Southey Wesley I. 56 When I have such a Ternion to prosecute that war.
2. A quire of three sheets, each folded in two.
1609Skene's Reg. Maj. H h iij b note, All the letters..are Ternions, or thrie sheetes in one, except H h in the last Alphabet. 1886Amer. Jrnl. Philol. Apr. 27 They say that a given manuscript is composed of quaternions and of ternions. |