trilogical

English

Adjective

trilogical (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to or organized into a trilogy.
   • 1987, Colin F. Howard, Slowmotional Meditation (bradykinesthesia), page 232:

     Scattered through his trilogical autobiography (and perhaps elsewhere in his other works) are tantalizing glimpses of his aerial adventures.

   • 2007, Ellen Rosand, Monteverdi's Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy, page 129:

     Instead, in this one, I will attempt to say something about what such a score might have looked like, extrapolating from other information — librettos , scenario , and also , in the spirit of my trilogical approach , from the sources of the other two operas.

   • 2012, E.F. Kaelin, The Unhappy Consciousness, page 135:

     The trilogical frame of the Stories was presented in nonnatural order presenting the dialectical structure of self-consciousness.

2. Having three parts, branches, or stages.
   • 1855, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, H. Sloman., Jean Wallon, The Subjective Logic of Hegel, Translated by H. Sloman, page 95:

     Can we believe that those rich varieties by which we are surrounded—life, the soul, love, virtue, and others—that these are everywhere and always the result of that one trilogical form of proceeding—thesis, antithesis, synthesis.

   • 1892, William Anderson Smith, Shepherd" Smith the Universalist, page 388:

     A monstrous production, in any of whose trilogical spheres I should be very sorry for mine or me to hold a place, however exalted.

   • 1966, The American Journal of Psychology - Volume 5, page 467:

     It seems almost like sacrilege to question the tripartite or trilogical division of mind into “intellect, feeling and will.

   • 1967, Gunnar Larsen, George V. Chilingar, Diagenesis in Sediments, page 450:

     Diagenesis of mineral deposits just as all sedimentary rocks is essentially a “trilogical” process consisting of crystallization, recrystallization and metasomatism.

3. Three-way.
   • 1980, Engineering Cybernetics - Volume 18, page 82:

     In contrast to a bilogical model, the trilogical model uses three values of branch potential during performance of computations.

   • 1982, Hajime Akashi, Control Science and Technology for the Progress of Society:

     A well conceived computer-aid can be obtained if there is a trilogical coherence between the three structures PGR, ORG and CFG and between the three functors ADJ, ROR and RCFG.

   • 2014, Patrick Felicia, Game-Based Learning: Challenges and Opportunities, page 146:

     Weight describes the trilogical relationship as meaningful and rewarding for its human interpreters.

4. Based on or unifying three perspectives.
   • 1963, Julius de Boer, A System of Characterology, page 346:

     The old triad theory cannot even be praised for what is found fault with in the newer trilogical theory of reality, viz. that it is only concerned with the rational (nur das Begriffene, 84), to such an extent illusion and superstition then overshadowed the sense of reality.

   • 1985, Norberto R. Keppe, The Decay of the American People (and of the United States), page 71:

     A nation's progress depends on its following the laws of reality, precisely laws, which are now of a cosmic nature, In other words, true progress can begin only now; for all science, philosophy and theology must possess a trilogical view (the unification of the three), inasmuch as separately they have exhausted their possibilities.

   • 2013, W. Slob, Dialogical Rhetoric:

     The dialectical mechanism of normativity, thus, is not a mere dialogical endeavor, but is in fact trilogical: the external observer is an essential logical role to safeguard the normativity of the conventional agreement of the two participants.