tridentaladj.1
/trʌɪˈdɛntəl/ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > relating to Neptune
Neptunianc1620
tridented1624
tridental1635
trident-bearing1749
trident-armed1866
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. ii. 10 The white-mouth'd Water now usurpes the Shore, And scornes the pow'r of her trydentall Guide.
2. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a trident; three-pronged, trifurcate.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [adjective] > having specific head
coronalleda1450
triple-headed1581
piled?1611
fluked1629
tridental1648
brazen-headed1832
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [adjective] > formed into, forming, or resembling bay > trifurcate (of bay)
tridental1892
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. vii. 20 Catching one with a tridentall iron Fork.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. v. 458 The bold Son of Amphytrion with tridental shaft Her bosom pierced.
1843 R. H. Horne Orion iii. iii. 166 Now had Poseidon with tridental spear Torn up the smitten sea.
1892 Graphic 28 May 637/2 These picturesque tridental bays have contributed backgrounds to many of the artist's pictures.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
tridentaladj.2
rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
= Tridentine adj.
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1842 [see tridentally adv. at Derivatives].
Derivatives
triˈdentally adv. in accordance with the Tridentine decrees.
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society > faith > church government > council > historical councils > Trent > [adverb]
tridentally1842
1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 49 A very possible advance, from the fourth century, to the yet more fully instructed, because tridentally instructed, sixteenth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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