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tertiate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• tûrʹshĭāt (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈtɜːʃɪeɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tertiāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of Latin tertiō, from tertius (“third”). By surface analysis, terti- + -ate.

Meanings

1. Having 2:3 proportion.
   • The unusual proportion, so different from the square or tertiate form normally chosen for Roman forts, is entirely due to the difficulty in finding a suitable position. 1939, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, page 111:
   • […] but this supposition involves an arrangement based on principles associated with tertiate camps, planned in the proportion of 2:3, and this is to be eschewed. 1934, James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society, Volume 34, page 56:
   • Among the larger sites, those which are of tertiate plan (ie whose long sides are half as big again as their short), are more likely than not to be of second century or later date; 1996, Peter G. B. McNeill, Hector L. MacQueen, Atlas of Scottish History to 1707, page 40:
   • The proportions are not tertiate, and there is no north gate. 1933, The Archaeological Journal - Volume 89, page 68:
2. Having three parts.
   • apex generally somewhat acuminate; margin entire, crenate or finely dentate — leaves on lower branches and coppice shoots reputed to be 1-3 lobed; lateral veins 2-4 pairs, tertiate veins forming a prominent reticulum. 1964, Elliottia: Notes from the Herbarium of Georgia Southern College, page 8:

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tertiary

tertiate en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• tûrʹshĭāt (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈtɜːʃɪeɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tertiāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of Latin tertiō, from tertius (“third”). By surface analysis, terti- + -ate.

Meanings

1. The third year of training in various Christian religious orders (especially the Jesuits).
   • Every day a whole hour must be devoted to it, in the novitiate even two hours; and every Jesuit is expected to spend at least one week in the year in meditation during his novitiate and in the tertiate a whole month. 1911, Paul Graf von Hoensbroech, Fourteen Years a Jesuit, page 297:
   • During the tertiate, as formerly during the novitiate, we have Hospital Trial, only instead of menial work, such as washing feet, cooking, scrubbing the floor, etc., we have spiritual work to do, by helping out the regular chaplain. 2008, Cynthia Hausmann, Priest and Patriot, page 196:
   • When the scholastic has finished his education, he embarks on the “tertiate," a period of several months in which the accumulated experience of some ten years in the Order will be proved and tested all over again. 1987, Manfred Barthel, The Jesuits: History & Legend of the Society of Jesus, page 53:
2. One who is in their tertiate training.
   • Her first house was in New York City , on Water Street , in the neighbourhood of Jerry McAuley's mission. In 1899 she became a Dominican tertiate. 1958, Kenneth Scott Latourette, Christianity in a Revolutionary Age - Volume 3, page 136:
3. The third classification of animals in some ranked taxonomic systems, such as that proposed by Linnaeus.
   • All other animals were of the third rank, tertiates. ( We learned of Linnaeus ' distinction between primates, secundates, and tertiates from J. Z. Young's Life of Vertebrates, 2nd ed . [Oxford, 1962].) 1983, Peter Brian Medawar, J. S. Medawar, Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology, page 218:
   • That of De Blainville had " Primates " (primates and doubtful sloths) , "Secundates" (insectivores and carnivores) , "Tertiates" (rodents), and " Quaternates” (ungulates and sirenians), all in a grand division of the "well-toothed" ("bien dentés"), i.e. the edentates. 1945, George Gaylord Simpson, Ruth Tyler, The Principles of Classification and a Classification of Mammals, page 172:
   • The designation Primates goes back to LINNAEUS, who included into this group man, apes, and monkeys (mammals being Secundates, and the other animals Tertiates). 1967, Hartwig Kuhlenbeck, The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates, page 69:
   • A few decades later, in the same spirit, and basing his reasoning on the “degeneration” of the hand, Blainville created the “Secundates,” “Tertiates,” and “Quaternates” for the other mammalian orders. 2012, Judith Masters, Marco Gamba, Fabien Génin, Leaping Ahead: Advances in Prosimian Biology, page ix:

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tertiate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• tûrʹshĭāt (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈtɜːʃɪeɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tertiāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of Latin tertiō, from tertius (“third”). By surface analysis, terti- + -ate.

Meanings

1. To reduce by one third; especially, kill one third of (a group of people).
   • “The Jews…were not merely decimated, for that means only one in ten of the world’s Jews were killed by the Nazis, but tertiated. One in every three were slaughtered.” 1979, Frank Gervasi, The Life and Times of Menahem Begin, page 42:
   • Seven spills of paper of precisely equal length were given round, and after an interval collected. Had any of them been dimidiated, tertiated or even decimated, the proposed election was void. 1912 May 3rd, F. Madan, “letter to Sir William [Osler]” quoted by Harvey Cushing in The Life of Sir William Osler II (2010), pages 999–1,000
   • We are distinctly told that one cause of the terrible famine that has been — not decimating, but tertiating — the population of Rajpootana, has been the substitution of cotton for grain culture; 1870, Frederick William Chesson, The Opium Trade Between India and China in Some of Its Present Aspects, page 19:
   • The Jewish People were not decimated…. Our people lost every third of its sons or its daughters…it was tertiated. 1981, Meron Medzini, editor, Israel’s Foreign Relations: 1977–1979, page 85:
2. (obsolete) To increase by half as much again; especially to increase the price in this way.
   • such a fancy never produces any other effect, but that of tertiating or doubling the price of things. 1786, Walker's Hibernian Magazine, page 703:
   • the chief and true point, is, that all secret intrigues, all public combinations, ended only in occasioning a reform in what was deemed abusive, in a regulation the advantages of which were fully demonstrated; and that the price of wheat, after having tertiated, doubled, trebled perhaps by the help of the forestallers, from whose abilities were expected the repeal of the law and the fall of its devisers, was fixed at last between one half and three fourths above the price, as it was upon the medium of ten years preceding the regulation. 1786, Charles de Marquis Casaux, Thoughts on the Mechanism of Societies, page 273:
   • The beam made for triplicating or tertiating any weight small enough to be weighed by it. 1757, The history of the R. Society of London, page 242:
3. (obsolete, rare) To do or perform three times or for the third time.
   • The ordinary sales shall be made by the Grand-Master, or by the Officer of the Maitrise, with the same forms as ought to be observed in regard to determination and survy of sites of fellings, martellage, balliveaux, publication, auction sales, dublication, tertiating, and verification of our woods; 1883, John Croumbie Brown, French Forest Ordinance of 1669, page 134:
   • In front of the doors, a long table, on which chops of mutton, or steaks of beef, just killed, shot out of a frying - pan in company with potent onions and floods of boiling grease , followed each other , morning, noon, and night, on which wayfarers were expected to tertiate each day the tough teeth-task, accomplished through the soft insipidity of squashed pumpkins and sweet potatoes. 1966, John Maxwell Freeland, The Australian Pub, page 115:
   • When you consult vvith me about the Personage that should first, or second, or tertiate your business with the King, I must answer as Demosthenes did of Action; My Lord Thresorer, My Lord Thresorer , and so again. 1672, Sir Henry Wotton, Izaak Walton, Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, page 559:
   • A young girl of morals pervertiate Invited an old man to tertiate. She tried all she knew And her sister did too, But the darned thing just hung there inertiate. 1968, Penthouse - Volume 3, Issues 7-12, page 23:
4. To divide into three parts, especially to divide into thirds.
   • Government draws-and-quarters our economy. Although a more accurate description might be tertiating because the one direction the government won't pull us is forward. 2010, Bill Flax, The Courage to Do Nothing, page 188:
   • Libido is “tertiated” and the shell fissured, becoming permeable to affects, the other, and reality. 2021, Gabriela Goldstein, Art in Psychoanalysis:
   • Had this question ever been scientifically treated, it would have been easy to see that this discord arises from the inappropriate position of the arithmetical termini which man, while in the stage of ante-grammatical inventiveness, fixed at ten (10) from the number of his fingers; that it is not given to us to conceive thé relation between part and parcel , or unit and fraction, but after having halved, or at most tertiated a unit or the fraction arising from such a process; that we, therefore, no more can fancy what the tenth part of a loaf of bread is than count the sands of the desert; 1867, S. J. Cassimati, The Greeks and Their Detractors, page 69:
   • To the point where now we are - unless people can have the resources and can pay for the resources of what we used to call tertiated medical centers, people are deprived and their expectations certainly are not met. 1989, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, Health Insurance Coverage and Reform, page 130:
5. To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.

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decimate (reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part) · duodecimate (reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part) · centesimate (reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part) · septimate (reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part) · quintate (reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part) · sextate (reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part)

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es terciar (Translations)