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单词 triplicity
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triplicityn.

/trɪˈplɪsɪti/
Etymology: < late Latin triplicitāt-em, < Latin triplex , -icem : see triplex adj. and -ity suffix. Compare French triplicité (14–15th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).
1. The quality or condition of being triple; threefold character or existence; tripleness, three-foldness.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > condition of being threefold > [noun]
trinity?c1425
triplicity1555
triunion1650
ternariness1662
triunity1816
threeness1829
triadism1846
threesomeness1853
threefoldness1857
trinality1864
triality1872
triplenessc1881
trebleness1888
threefoldedness1905
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. i. f. 1 One god whom we honour in triplicitie of person.
1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον vi. 268 To this three-fold age, I compare the triplicitie of the Muses.
1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 10 This triplicity of the heavens and the earth is the first, obvious, plain sence of the apostle's discourse.
1705 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 12 Dec. (O.H.S.) I. 126 The Triplicity of the Crownes.
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. I. ii. 45 He was clergyman, physician, and lawyer, at once. How this singular triplicity came to take place, I cannot say.
2.
a. A combination or group of three things, beings, or attributes; three things collectively; a triad, trio, triplet.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > group of three > [noun]
leashc1330
ternarya1464
trinity1542
three?1544
triad1546
trine1554
triplicity1585
ternion1587
pair royal1592
trinary1596
trias1610
gleek1615
triangle1621
triple1653
triumvirate1655
prial1776
trio1777
trefoil1826
trinomy1838
Pip, Squeak, and Wilfred1937
1585 S. R. (title) The Choise of Change: Containing the Triplicitie of Diuinitie, Philosophie, and Poetrie.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xii. sig. M4v Many an Angels voice, Singing before th'eternall maiesty, In their trinall triplicities on hye.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 582 The Panther..is ioyned with the Lyon and the Wolfe, to make vp the triplicity of rauening beasts.
1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 143 Solomon, Marcus Antoninus, and our late King James, a triplicity of unparalleld Majesties.
1899 F. M. Crawford Via Crucis vi. 71 A most perfect triplicity of beauty, grace and elastic strength.
b. A multiple by three; three times the amount. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > multiplication by three > [noun] > three times as much
triplec1425
treblec1430
triplicity1646
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 218 Affirming..what receiveth motion in the seventh, to be perfected in the Triplicities; that is, the time of conformation..from motion unto the birth [is] treble. View more context for this quotation
3.
a. spec. in Astrology. A combination of three of the twelve signs of the zodiac, each sign being distant 120° or the third part of a circle from the other two: = trigon n. 2(a).Each of the four triplicities is named after one of the ‘elements’, of whose qualities it is supposed to partake; thus airy triplicity. = Gemini, Libra, Aquarius; earthy triplicity. = Taurus, Virgo, Capricornus; fiery triplicity. = Aries, Leo, Sagittarius; watery triplicity = Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces.
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [noun] > Zodiac > sign of zodiac > in combination
triplicity1398
trigon1563
fiery1790
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum viii. ix. (Bodl.) lf. 80/1 Þese howses beþ icleped þe howses of triplicite and somme of exaltacioun, for þilke signes þat accordeþ in one kinde makeþ triplicite and have .o. name.
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Cci v The sayd xii. signes..ben deuided by foure triplicites.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiii. vii. 298 In Aries, Leo, and Sagittarie is a certeine triplicitie.
1650 R. Gell Αγγελοκρατια Θεου 45 Talk not to them of fiery, aiery, watry, earthly triplicities.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iii. 41 I will calculate his nativity according to the rule of the Triplicities, as recommended by Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Diocles, and Avicenna.
1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 307 The Four Triplicities is another distribution of the twelve signs into groups of three.
b. figurative or allusively. Obsolete.
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1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in Let.-bk. (1884) 140 So many influences and triplicityes of loove.
1647 Husbandmans Plea against Tithes 70 The fiery triplicitie..of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
1680 Hon. Cavalier 15 The Pope, the Fanatick, and the Turk, that Fiery Triplicity of the World.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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