单词 | triplicity |
释义 | triplicityn. 1. The quality or condition of being triple; threefold character or existence; tripleness, three-foldness. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1398 |
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