† trisulctrisulkadj.n.
Obsolete.
A. adj.
Three-cleft, three-forked, trifurcate: esp. as an epithet of the lightning or thunderbolt, after Latin trisulcum fulmen (Varro), Jovis telum trisulcum (Ovid), etc.
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the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adjective] > trifurcated
trisulc1608
trifurcous1656
trifurcated1727
trifurcate1811
tribrachial1873
1608 T. Heywood Rape of Lucrece i. ii That hand That flings the trisulke thunder.
1611 T. Heywood Golden Age v. sig. K2v Iupiter..Who thunder and the trisulke lightning beares.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis xiv. 142 The Tongue of man is not double, or trisulke, or bisulke, as in some creatures.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xxxii. 210 Iupiter confound me with his trisulk lightning if I lie.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Trisulk (trisulcus), having three edges, or three furrows.
1658 in E. Phillips New World Eng. Words
B. n. elliptical.
A thunderbolt.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys > thunder or lightning as a destructive agency
thunderc893
thunder-dintc1374
thunder-flonec1380
thunder-blasta1400
thunderboltc1440
thunder-stone1598
thunder-clap1610
thunderstrokea1616
trisulc1637
thunder-ball1820
the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Jupiter > thunderbolt of
trisulc1637
1637 T. Heywood Dial. iv, in Wks. (1874) VI. 160 Hand once againe thy Trisulk, and retire To Oeta, and there kindle't with new fire.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 239 They..never..looke upon him, least the fulgor of his aspect might peradventure prove no lesse formidable than the Trisulk of Iupiter.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vi. 100 If we consider the threefold effect of Jupiters Trisulk, to burn, discusse and terebrate. View more context for this quotation
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