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▪ I. tridental, a.1|traɪˈdɛntəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
†1. Bearing a trident. Obs. rare.
1635Quarles Embl. i. ii. iv, The white-mouth'd Water now usurpes the Shore, And scornes the pow'r of her trydentall Guide.
2. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a trident; three-pronged, trifurcate.
1648Gage West Ind. vii. 20 Catching one with a tridentall iron Fork. 1791Cowper Iliad v. 458 The bold Son of Amphytrion with tridental shaft Her bosom pierced. 1843R. H. Horne Orion iii. iii. 166 Now had Poseidon with tridental spear Torn up the smitten sea. 1892Graphic 28 May 637/2 These picturesque tridental bays have contributed backgrounds to many of the artist's pictures.
▪ II. triˈdental, a.2 rare—0.
= Tridentine. Hence triˈdentally adv., in accordance with the Tridentine decrees.
1842G. S. Faber Prov. Lett. (1844) II. 49 A very possible advance, from the fourth century, to the yet more fully instructed, because tridentally instructed, sixteenth. |