trine
English
Etymology
From Middle French trin, from Latin trīnus.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -aɪn
Adjective
trine (not comparable)
- Triple; threefold.
- (astrology) Denoting the aspect of two celestial bodies which are 120° apart.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 1, member 2, subsection ii:
- The physicians refer this to their temperament, astrologers to trine and sextile aspects, or opposite of their several ascendants, lords of their genitures, love and hatred of planets […]
Synonyms
- (triple; threefold): tern, treble; see also Thesaurus:triple
Noun
trine (plural trines)
- A group of three things.
- (Can we date this quote by Elizabeth Browning and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- a single trine of brazen tortoises
- (Can we date this quote by Elizabeth Browning and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (astrology) An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart.
Synonyms
- (a group of three things): threesome, triad; see also Thesaurus:trio
Verb
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- (transitive, astrology) To put in the aspect of a trine.
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- By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.
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- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To hang; To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
- 1612, Thomas Dekker, Lantern and Candlelight[1]:
- Been Darkmans then booz Mort and Ken, / The been Coves bing awast / On Chats to trine by Rum-Coves dine, / For his long lib at last.
- 1988, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good, Act 2, Scene 1:
- Liz, he says, why trine for a make, when you can wap for a winne. I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin to sell my mother of saints.
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To go.
- 1647, John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush[2], published 1706, Act 3, Scene 3, page 42:
- Twang dell's, i' the strommell, and let the Quire Cuffin: / And Herman Beck strine and trine to the Ruffin.
- 1673, Richard Head, “The Beggars Curse”, in The Canting Academy[3]:
- From thence at the Nubbing-cheat we trine in the Lightmans.
Anagrams
Caló
Numeral
trine
- Alternative form of trin (“three”)
References
- “trine” in Francisco Quindalé, Diccionario gitano, Madrid: Oficina Tipográfica del Hospicio.
Italian
Noun
trine f
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) trīne
References
- trine in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Portuguese
Verb
trine
Spanish
Verb
trine
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