tiercen.¹

/tɪəs/

Forms: α. Middle English–1700s terse, 1500s teyrse, teers, 1500s–1600s tearce, 1600s tearse, teirce, teirse, ters, Middle English–1800s terce: see also terce n. β. Middle English tyerce, tyrse, Middle English–1500s tyerse, 1500s tyers, tiersse, tiers, tirce, 1500s–1600s tierse, Middle English– tierce.

Etymology: < Old French terce, tierce, feminine of terz, tierz (Roland, 11th cent.), later ters, tiers, modern French tiers, feminine tierce < Latin tertium, feminine tertiam third.

†1.

a. A third part: = third adj. 1. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > division into three > [noun] > a third

thirdc950

thirdendealc1000

thirdel1297

third parta1400

third pennyc1400

tierce1491

ternary part1599

1491 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 326 Twa tercis beand defalkyt of þe sade some.

1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 351 Two smaule Ilandes standyng in the .xxii. degrees and a terce.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia 16 We came to Hatorask in 36. degrees and a terse.

1651 W. Davenant Gondibert i. v. lvi Four~hundred leaders..And twice the tierce of these consists of those [etc.].

†b. = third n. 7. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [noun] > degree > second > sixtieth part of

tiercec1420

third1595

c1420 J. Lydgate Story of Thebes i. 39 The heauenly mansions Clerely searched, by smale fraccions, First by secondes, terces, and eke quartes.

c. Abbreviated title of the treatise Super Tertium Sententiarum of Alexander Hales. Obsolete.

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1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xxi. sig. aa.ii ^v It is sacrylege after mayster Alexande de halis in his tyers.

2. Christian Church.

a. The third hour of the canonical day, ending at 9 a.m.; also, the period from 9 a.m. till noon. (Cf. prime n.¹ 1) Obsolete exc. Historical.

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society > faith > worship > canonical hours > tierce (9 a.m.) > [noun]

underna900

undern-songa1400

tiercec1450

third hour1706

tierce-song1852

c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 3644 It was bot tierce of the daye ouer ayrly than for drynking.

c1480 (a1400) SS. Simon & Jude 197 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 213 To-morne, or it terse be,..sal cum to þe, messyngeris.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 84/2 He..prayd fro tyerce vnto none.

1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry iv. iii. 37^* Upon St. George's Even, at the hour of Tierce.

1706 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. v. 43 The second [part of the 12 hours] which lasted till Noon, was called Tierce, because it began at the Third Hour of the day.

1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. vii. 297 The third of these hours was called undern or terce.

b. (Now usually spelt terce.) The office said at this hour.

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c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 41 Late lewid freris seie..for prime, tierce, vndren & noon, for eche of hem seuene pater nostris.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKKii^v The churche..in..the..houres canonicall, entendeth to..worshyp at .vii. tymes in the day, that is to say: In matynes, prime, tierce, sexte, none, euynsong, & complyn.

1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed xxii. 212 Terce, Sext, and None, begin with Pater, Ave,&c. and consist each of them of a proper Hymn, and six Divisions of the 118th Psalm.

1853 J. D. H. Dale tr. G. Baldeschi Ceremonial Rom. Rite 101 The vesting of the Bishop for Terce.

1897 E. Bishop in Prymer (E.E.T.S.) Introd. 38 The day hours, prime and terce, and sext and none, said in every secular church.

3. Scots Law. See terce n.

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c1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 336 A Lady tiercear, or conjunct-fear, havand ane tierce or conjunct-fie of ward landis, or blanche landis.

4. An old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe (usually 42 gallons old wine measure, but varying for different commodities: cf. pipe n.² 2); also a cask or vessel holding this quantity, usually of wine, but also of various kinds of provisions or other goods (e.g. beef, pork, salmon, coffee, honey, sugar, tallow, tobacco); also such a cask with its contents.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > of specific size

kilderkin1390

tierce1531

pin1570

quardeel1681

caroteel1704

queue1739

anker?c1750

eighteener1870

the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > barrel or cask as unit

pipe1352

tunc1400

piece1423

hogshead1427

ton mascull1432

tierce1531

leaguer1683

tonneau1794

1531 Charterparty in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Admiralty 36 Accounttyng..ij pipes for a ton iiij hoggeshedds for a ton and vj tercys for a ton.

1531–2 Act 23 Hen. VIII c. 7 §5 The butte, tonne, pype..teers, barrell or rondlett.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Addicion Hemicadia, vesselles callyd a tierce, halfe a hoggesheed.

1588 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 180 ix tearces of honeye, at 16l. per tonne, 24l.

1707 London Gaz. No. 4337/4 On Wednesday..will be exposed to Sale..about 400 Hogsheads and 10 Tierces of..French Claret.

1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames iii. 136 Beef and Pork..contained in..Tierces and Barrels.

1825 Gentleman's Mag. 95 i. 216 [Coffee berries] closely packed in tierces for exportation.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 June 6/1 The tobacco..comes from abroad..in hogsheads..in what are called tierces (a smaller wooden barrel), and in bales.

†5. A band or company of soldiers (cf. tercio n.).

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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > regiment > infantry regiment

tierce1577

tercio1583

tertia1631

prikaz1662

pultan1800

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1860/2 400. harquebusiers Spanyards, of the tierze [1587 tierse] of Sardigna.

1668 London Gaz. No. 237/3 The Leavies of a Terse of Italian Infantry.

6. One of the positions in fencing; the third of the eight parries in sword-play, or the corresponding thrust: see quots. Also figurative (usually in collocation with carte or quarte). Cf. carte n.², quarte n.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > positions

in-stop14..

out-stopa1500

warda1586

guard1601

preem1603

unicorn guard1617

quarte1639

tierce1687

tierce guard1687

tierce parade1687

inside1692

carte1707

hanging guard1707

quinte1707

seconde1707

saccoon1708

prime1710

segoon1721

octave1771

supination1805

septime1861

sixte1885

sixth1885

corps à corps1910

1687 W. Hope Scots Fencing-master 4 When a Man holdeth the Nails of his Sword hand quite downwards,..he is said to hold his hand in Terce.

1707 W. Hope New Method Fencing 15 The only sure defence and preservative upon the ordinary Quart and Tierce Guards.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 26. ⁋11 Questions about the Words Cart and Terce, and other Terms of Fencers.

1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic iii. i O cursed parry!—that last thrust in tierce Was fatal.

1809 J. Roland Amateur of Fencing 37 In parrying either carte or tierce the same edge of your blade will parry both parades, provided you turn your wrist in its proper position for each parade.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. vii. 150 The assassin stab of time was parried by the quart and tierce of art.

1840 R. H. Barham Tragedy in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. iv He thrust carte and tierce Uncommonly fierce.

1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary v. v. 277 To reign is restless fence, Tierce, quart, and trickery.

1878 R. Browning Two Poets of Croisic in La Saisiaz & Two Poets of Croisic 137 No carte-and-tierce Observes the grinning fencer.

1889 Ld. Tennyson Demeter & other Poems 173 Subtle at tierce and quart of mind with mind.]

7. In piquet and other card games, a sequence of three cards in any suit. tierce major, the highest three cards of a suit; tierce minor, the lowest three, i.e. seven, eight, and nine; tierce to a king, queen, etc., a tierce of which the king, queen, etc., is the highest. Cf. quart n.² 2, quint n.²

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > combinations of cards

cater-trey?a1500

mournival1530

sequence1575

pair royal1608

septieme1651

tierce1659

pair1674

purtaunte1688

quart major1718

matrimonya1743

queen-suit1744

quart1746

prial1776

flux1798

fredon1798

tricon1798

intrigue1830

straight1841

marriage1861

under-sequence1863

straight five1864

double pair-royal?1870

run?1870

short suit1876

four1883

fourchette1885

meld1887

doubleton1906

canasta1948

1659 H. Neville Shufling, Cutting, & Dealing 3 I have got a good Tearse.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 73/2 A Tierce Major, is the sequence of Queen, King and Ace in Picket, and of Knave, Queene and King in other games.

1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. ix. 35 That, sir, is a terce to a nine in your favour.

1860 Bohn's Hand-bk. Games i. 14 Many good players, in playing tierce majors, begin with the king and queen.

1904 M. Hewlett Queen's Quair i. xi. 146 I've a terce to my Queen, mistress.

8. Music. (a) The interval of a third (major or minor); the note at this interval above a given note. Now rare or Obsolete. (b) The note two octaves and a major third (= a major 17th) above a fundamental note; hence, a mutation stop in an organ giving tones at this interval above the normal pitch. tierce of Picardy (usually in French form tierce de Picardie), a major third used instead of a minor in the final chord of a piece in a minor key.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > third

third1597

tierce1696

terza1724

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > other chords

seventh1591

fourth1597

sixth1597

fifth1631

tierce1696

septime1725

repercussion1728

octave1749

substitution1784

triad1786

German sixth1812

French sixth1813

nintha1830

Neapolitan sixth1871

six-four1873

Italian sixth1875

tetrad1881

added sixth1888

leading seventh1889

ninth chord1889

under-chord1890

diminished seventh1926

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Tierce,..in Musick, a Concord.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited entry) If the Terms be as 5 to 4, 'tis called, a Tierce Major, or a Diton; but if the Terms are as 6 to 5, then 'tis called, a Tierce Minor, or Demi-Diton.

1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 138 The two stops of an organ called the fifteenth and tierce.

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Tierce, the interval of a third.

1849 Hamilton's Celebrated Dict. 117 Tierce de Picardie (French), a term applied to the concluding chord of a piece of music in a minor key, when its third is made major by an accidental sharp or natural.

1879 tr. T. A. L. Du Moncel Telephone 43 Vibrations..in the relation of a tierce major, that is in the relation of four to five.

1889 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 114/2 The Third, thus made major by an accidental sharp or natural, is called the ‘tierce de Picardie’.

1940 Scrutiny 9 128 Beneath the suspended F sharp of the concluding tierce de picardie, trombones, violas, and horns emphatically sing.

1959 D. Cooke Lang. Music ii. 57 For centuries, pieces in a minor key had to have a ‘happy ending’—a final major chord (the ‘tierce de Picardie’) or a bare fifth.

1978 New Universities Q. XXXII. 288 The final cadence achieves, and deserves, the bliss of a tierce de Picardie.

9. Heraldry. (a) A charge composed of three triangles, usually all of different tinctures, arranged in fesse, also in bend. (b) The division of a shield by lines into three equal parts: see quot. 1883 at tiercé adj.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > less honourable charge > charge of three triangles

tierce1847

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > [noun] > armorial bearings or coat of arms > the various coats combined on a shield > combining two or more coats > specific

quarteringa1450

impaling1605

discincture1610

impalement1778

dimidiation1780

tierce1847

dimidiating1864

c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. Tierces, or Tierches,..used by French heralds to express three figures which only take up the space of a fesse, but which are sometimes placed in bend.]

1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tierce..a field divided into three parts.

1894 Parker's Gloss. Her. Tierce (fr.), a charge occurring in some French arms, consisting of three triangles arranged generally in fesse. There may be two tierces in the same shield.

Compounds

attributive or as adj. in special collocations:

tierce guard n. see sense 6.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > positions

in-stop14..

out-stopa1500

warda1586

guard1601

preem1603

unicorn guard1617

quarte1639

tierce1687

tierce guard1687

tierce parade1687

inside1692

carte1707

hanging guard1707

quinte1707

seconde1707

saccoon1708

prime1710

segoon1721

octave1771

supination1805

septime1861

sixte1885

sixth1885

corps à corps1910

1687 W. Hope Scots Fencing-master 116 I esteem the Terce Guard, with the point higher then the Hilt.

tierce parade n. = tierce guard n.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > positions

in-stop14..

out-stopa1500

warda1586

guard1601

preem1603

unicorn guard1617

quarte1639

tierce1687

tierce guard1687

tierce parade1687

inside1692

carte1707

hanging guard1707

quinte1707

seconde1707

saccoon1708

prime1710

segoon1721

octave1771

supination1805

septime1861

sixte1885

sixth1885

corps à corps1910

1687 W. Hope Scots Fencing-master 22 The Terce Parade, or the Parade without the Sword, because you put by the thrust upon that side which is without your Sword.

tierce point n. [French tiers-point] Architecture the vertex of an equilateral triangle, or of a pointed arch.

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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Third Tierce-Point, in Architecture, the Point of Section in the Vertex of an Equilateral Triangle.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1046 Tierce Point, the vertex of an equilateral triangle.

tierce rhyme n. = terza rima n.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > [noun] > terza rima

triple rime1727

terza rima1819

third rhyme1820

triple (also treble) rhyme1869

tierce rhyme1877

1877 Tomlinson (title) A Vision of Hell: The Inferno of Dante translated into English Tierce Rhyme.

tierce-song n. the office of terce (= sense 2b); cf. undern-song at undern n. Compounds.

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society > faith > worship > canonical hours > tierce (9 a.m.) > [noun]

underna900

undern-songa1400

tiercec1450

third hour1706

tierce-song1852

1852 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. x. 473 St. Bede died a little after undern-time, or tierce-song hour.

Derivatives

carte and tierce v. (also quart and tierce) cf. quart v.¹), intransitive to parry or thrust in tierce (in quot. 1833 transferred); in quot. 1765 transitive ? to fence with (or ? as a vague threat).

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1765 S. Foote Commissary iii. 65 John fetch me the foils; I'll carte and tierce you, you scoundrel.

1833 New Monthly Mag. 38 343 He quarts and tierces for twenty minutes, slips, drops, and rolls.

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tierce v. = carte and tierce vb.

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单词	tierce
释义	tiercen.¹ /tɪəs/ Forms: α. Middle English–1700s terse, 1500s teyrse, teers, 1500s–1600s tearce, 1600s tearse, teirce, teirse, ters, Middle English–1800s terce: see also terce n. β. Middle English tyerce, tyrse, Middle English–1500s tyerse, 1500s tyers, tiersse, tiers, tirce, 1500s–1600s tierse, Middle English– tierce. Etymology: < Old French terce, tierce, feminine of terz, tierz (Roland, 11th cent.), later ters, tiers, modern French tiers, feminine tierce < Latin tertium, feminine tertiam third. †1. a. A third part: = third adj. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > division into three > [noun] > a third thirdc950 thirdendealc1000 thirdel1297 third parta1400 third pennyc1400 tierce1491 ternary part1599 1491 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 326 Twa tercis beand defalkyt of þe sade some. 1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 351 Two smaule Ilandes standyng in the .xxii. degrees and a terce. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia 16 We came to Hatorask in 36. degrees and a terse. 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert i. v. lvi Four~hundred leaders..And twice the tierce of these consists of those [etc.]. †b. = third n. 7. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [noun] > degree > second > sixtieth part of tiercec1420 third1595 c1420 J. Lydgate Story of Thebes i. 39 The heauenly mansions Clerely searched, by smale fraccions, First by secondes, terces, and eke quartes. c. Abbreviated title of the treatise Super Tertium Sententiarum of Alexander Hales. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xxi. sig. aa.ii ^v It is sacrylege after mayster Alexande de halis in his tyers. 2. Christian Church. a. The third hour of the canonical day, ending at 9 a.m.; also, the period from 9 a.m. till noon. (Cf. prime n.¹ 1) Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > canonical hours > tierce (9 a.m.) > [noun] underna900 undern-songa1400 tiercec1450 third hour1706 tierce-song1852 c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 3644 It was bot tierce of the daye ouer ayrly than for drynking. c1480 (a1400) SS. Simon & Jude 197 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 213 To-morne, or it terse be,..sal cum to þe, messyngeris. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 84/2 He..prayd fro tyerce vnto none. 1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry iv. iii. 37^* Upon St. George's Even, at the hour of Tierce. 1706 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. v. 43 The second [part of the 12 hours] which lasted till Noon, was called Tierce, because it began at the Third Hour of the day. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. vii. 297 The third of these hours was called undern or terce. b. (Now usually spelt terce.) The office said at this hour. ΚΠ c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 41 Late lewid freris seie..for prime, tierce, vndren & noon, for eche of hem seuene pater nostris. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKKii^v The churche..in..the..houres canonicall, entendeth to..worshyp at .vii. tymes in the day, that is to say: In matynes, prime, tierce, sexte, none, euynsong, & complyn. 1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed xxii. 212 Terce, Sext, and None, begin with Pater, Ave,&c. and consist each of them of a proper Hymn, and six Divisions of the 118th Psalm. 1853 J. D. H. Dale tr. G. Baldeschi Ceremonial Rom. Rite 101 The vesting of the Bishop for Terce. 1897 E. Bishop in Prymer (E.E.T.S.) Introd. 38 The day hours, prime and terce, and sext and none, said in every secular church. 3. Scots Law. See terce n. ΚΠ c1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 336 A Lady tiercear, or conjunct-fear, havand ane tierce or conjunct-fie of ward landis, or blanche landis. 4. An old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe (usually 42 gallons old wine measure, but varying for different commodities: cf. pipe n.² 2); also a cask or vessel holding this quantity, usually of wine, but also of various kinds of provisions or other goods (e.g. beef, pork, salmon, coffee, honey, sugar, tallow, tobacco); also such a cask with its contents. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > of specific size kilderkin1390 tierce1531 pin1570 quardeel1681 caroteel1704 queue1739 anker?c1750 eighteener1870 the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > barrel or cask as unit pipe1352 tunc1400 piece1423 hogshead1427 ton mascull1432 tierce1531 leaguer1683 tonneau1794 1531 Charterparty in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Admiralty 36 Accounttyng..ij pipes for a ton iiij hoggeshedds for a ton and vj tercys for a ton. 1531–2 Act 23 Hen. VIII c. 7 §5 The butte, tonne, pype..teers, barrell or rondlett. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Addicion Hemicadia, vesselles callyd a tierce, halfe a hoggesheed. 1588 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 180 ix tearces of honeye, at 16l. per tonne, 24l. 1707 London Gaz. No. 4337/4 On Wednesday..will be exposed to Sale..about 400 Hogsheads and 10 Tierces of..French Claret. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames iii. 136 Beef and Pork..contained in..Tierces and Barrels. 1825 Gentleman's Mag. 95 i. 216 [Coffee berries] closely packed in tierces for exportation. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 June 6/1 The tobacco..comes from abroad..in hogsheads..in what are called tierces (a smaller wooden barrel), and in bales. †5. A band or company of soldiers (cf. tercio n.). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > regiment > infantry regiment tierce1577 tercio1583 tertia1631 prikaz1662 pultan1800 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1860/2 400. harquebusiers Spanyards, of the tierze [1587 tierse] of Sardigna. 1668 London Gaz. No. 237/3 The Leavies of a Terse of Italian Infantry. 6. One of the positions in fencing; the third of the eight parries in sword-play, or the corresponding thrust: see quots. Also figurative (usually in collocation with carte or quarte). Cf. carte n.², quarte n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > positions in-stop14.. out-stopa1500 warda1586 guard1601 preem1603 unicorn guard1617 quarte1639 tierce1687 tierce guard1687 tierce parade1687 inside1692 carte1707 hanging guard1707 quinte1707 seconde1707 saccoon1708 prime1710 segoon1721 octave1771 supination1805 septime1861 sixte1885 sixth1885 corps à corps1910 1687 W. Hope Scots Fencing-master 4 When a Man holdeth the Nails of his Sword hand quite downwards,..he is said to hold his hand in Terce. 1707 W. Hope New Method Fencing 15 The only sure defence and preservative upon the ordinary Quart and Tierce Guards. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 26. ⁋11 Questions about the Words Cart and Terce, and other Terms of Fencers. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic iii. i O cursed parry!—that last thrust in tierce Was fatal. 1809 J. Roland Amateur of Fencing 37 In parrying either carte or tierce the same edge of your blade will parry both parades, provided you turn your wrist in its proper position for each parade. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. vii. 150 The assassin stab of time was parried by the quart and tierce of art. 1840 R. H. Barham Tragedy in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. iv He thrust carte and tierce Uncommonly fierce. 1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary v. v. 277 To reign is restless fence, Tierce, quart, and trickery. 1878 R. Browning Two Poets of Croisic in La Saisiaz & Two Poets of Croisic 137 No carte-and-tierce Observes the grinning fencer. 1889 Ld. Tennyson Demeter & other Poems 173 Subtle at tierce and quart of mind with mind.] 7. In piquet and other card games, a sequence of three cards in any suit. tierce major, the highest three cards of a suit; tierce minor, the lowest three, i.e. seven, eight, and nine; tierce to a king, queen, etc., a tierce of which the king, queen, etc., is the highest. Cf. quart n.² 2, quint n.² ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > combinations of cards cater-trey?a1500 mournival1530 sequence1575 pair royal1608 septieme1651 tierce1659 pair1674 purtaunte1688 quart major1718 matrimonya1743 queen-suit1744 quart1746 prial1776 flux1798 fredon1798 tricon1798 intrigue1830 straight1841 marriage1861 under-sequence1863 straight five1864 double pair-royal?1870 run?1870 short suit1876 four1883 fourchette1885 meld1887 doubleton1906 canasta1948 1659 H. Neville Shufling, Cutting, & Dealing 3 I have got a good Tearse. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 73/2 A Tierce Major, is the sequence of Queen, King and Ace in Picket, and of Knave, Queene and King in other games. 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. ix. 35 That, sir, is a terce to a nine in your favour. 1860 Bohn's Hand-bk. Games i. 14 Many good players, in playing tierce majors, begin with the king and queen. 1904 M. Hewlett Queen's Quair i. xi. 146 I've a terce to my Queen, mistress. 8. Music. (a) The interval of a third (major or minor); the note at this interval above a given note. Now rare or Obsolete. (b) The note two octaves and a major third (= a major 17th) above a fundamental note; hence, a mutation stop in an organ giving tones at this interval above the normal pitch. tierce of Picardy (usually in French form tierce de Picardie), a major third used instead of a minor in the final chord of a piece in a minor key. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > third third1597 tierce1696 terza1724 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > other chords seventh1591 fourth1597 sixth1597 fifth1631 tierce1696 septime1725 repercussion1728 octave1749 substitution1784 triad1786 German sixth1812 French sixth1813 nintha1830 Neapolitan sixth1871 six-four1873 Italian sixth1875 tetrad1881 added sixth1888 leading seventh1889 ninth chord1889 under-chord1890 diminished seventh1926 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Tierce,..in Musick, a Concord. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited entry) If the Terms be as 5 to 4, 'tis called, a Tierce Major, or a Diton; but if the Terms are as 6 to 5, then 'tis called, a Tierce Minor, or Demi-Diton. 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 138 The two stops of an organ called the fifteenth and tierce. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Tierce, the interval of a third. 1849 Hamilton's Celebrated Dict. 117 Tierce de Picardie (French), a term applied to the concluding chord of a piece of music in a minor key, when its third is made major by an accidental sharp or natural. 1879 tr. T. A. L. Du Moncel Telephone 43 Vibrations..in the relation of a tierce major, that is in the relation of four to five. 1889 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 114/2 The Third, thus made major by an accidental sharp or natural, is called the ‘tierce de Picardie’. 1940 Scrutiny 9 128 Beneath the suspended F sharp of the concluding tierce de picardie, trombones, violas, and horns emphatically sing. 1959 D. Cooke Lang. Music ii. 57 For centuries, pieces in a minor key had to have a ‘happy ending’—a final major chord (the ‘tierce de Picardie’) or a bare fifth. 1978 New Universities Q. XXXII. 288 The final cadence achieves, and deserves, the bliss of a tierce de Picardie. 9. Heraldry. (a) A charge composed of three triangles, usually all of different tinctures, arranged in fesse, also in bend. (b) The division of a shield by lines into three equal parts: see quot. 1883 at tiercé adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > less honourable charge > charge of three triangles tierce1847 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > [noun] > armorial bearings or coat of arms > the various coats combined on a shield > combining two or more coats > specific quarteringa1450 impaling1605 discincture1610 impalement1778 dimidiation1780 tierce1847 dimidiating1864 c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. Tierces, or Tierches,..used by French heralds to express three figures which only take up the space of a fesse, but which are sometimes placed in bend.] 1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tierce..a field divided into three parts. 1894 Parker's Gloss. Her. Tierce (fr.), a charge occurring in some French arms, consisting of three triangles arranged generally in fesse. There may be two tierces in the same shield. Compounds attributive or as adj. in special collocations: tierce guard n. see sense 6. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > positions in-stop14.. out-stopa1500 warda1586 guard1601 preem1603 unicorn guard1617 quarte1639 tierce1687 tierce guard1687 tierce parade1687 inside1692 carte1707 hanging guard1707 quinte1707 seconde1707 saccoon1708 prime1710 segoon1721 octave1771 supination1805 septime1861 sixte1885 sixth1885 corps à corps1910 1687 W. Hope Scots Fencing-master 116 I esteem the Terce Guard, with the point higher then the Hilt. tierce parade n. = tierce guard n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > positions in-stop14.. out-stopa1500 warda1586 guard1601 preem1603 unicorn guard1617 quarte1639 tierce1687 tierce guard1687 tierce parade1687 inside1692 carte1707 hanging guard1707 quinte1707 seconde1707 saccoon1708 prime1710 segoon1721 octave1771 supination1805 septime1861 sixte1885 sixth1885 corps à corps1910 1687 W. Hope Scots Fencing-master 22 The Terce Parade, or the Parade without the Sword, because you put by the thrust upon that side which is without your Sword. tierce point n. [French tiers-point] Architecture the vertex of an equilateral triangle, or of a pointed arch. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Third Tierce-Point, in Architecture, the Point of Section in the Vertex of an Equilateral Triangle. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1046 Tierce Point, the vertex of an equilateral triangle. tierce rhyme n. = terza rima n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > [noun] > terza rima triple rime1727 terza rima1819 third rhyme1820 triple (also treble) rhyme1869 tierce rhyme1877 1877 Tomlinson (title) A Vision of Hell: The Inferno of Dante translated into English Tierce Rhyme. tierce-song n. the office of terce (= sense 2b); cf. undern-song at undern n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > canonical hours > tierce (9 a.m.) > [noun] underna900 undern-songa1400 tiercec1450 third hour1706 tierce-song1852 1852 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. x. 473 St. Bede died a little after undern-time, or tierce-song hour. Derivatives carte and tierce v. (also quart and tierce) cf. quart v.¹), intransitive to parry or thrust in tierce (in quot. 1833 transferred); in quot. 1765 transitive ? to fence with (or ? as a vague threat). ΚΠ 1765 S. Foote Commissary iii. 65 John fetch me the foils; I'll carte and tierce you, you scoundrel. 1833 New Monthly Mag. 38 343 He quarts and tierces for twenty minutes, slips, drops, and rolls. Thesaurus » Categories » tierce v. = carte and tierce vb. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹c1380
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