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trimestrial, a. (n.)|traɪˈmɛstrɪəl|
[f. L. trimestris (see prec.) + -al1.]
Consisting of or containing three months; occurring or appearing every three months. b. as n. A quarterly publication.
1693J. Beaumont On Burnet's Th. Earth ii. 96 By others it's made Trimestrial, and by others to consist of Six Months. 1824Medwin Convers. Byron I. 171 People who read nothing but these trimestrials. 1855Tait's Mag. XXII. 630 The complaint of a trimestrial contemporary. 1865Maffei Brigand Life I. 81 He levied a regular trimestrial tax upon all cattle-dealers.
Also (less correctly) triˈmestral a.
1824Bp. Blomfield in Mem. (1863) I. iv. 101, I have been busier for the last three months than ever I was before for any trimestral portion of my life. 1829Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 52 The fiend is up again and doing, till Vishnu array himself in trimestral or monthly incarnation, to return him to his deep. [Referring to the Quarterly Review.] 1881Mrs. E. Lynn Linton My Love xii, Their trimestral visit..had to be paid. |