trine
English
Etymology
From Middle French trin, from Latin trīnus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /tɹaɪn/
- 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: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, 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 […]
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Noun
trine (plural trines)
- A group of three things.
- Elizabeth Browning
- a single trine of brazen tortoises
- Elizabeth Browning
- (astrology) An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart.
Verb
trine (third-person singular simple present trines, present participle trining, simple past and past participle trined)
- (transitive, astrology) To put in the aspect of a trine.
- Dryden
- By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.
- Dryden
- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To hang; To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
- 1612, Dekker, Thomas, Lantern and Candlelight:
- 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, Wertenbaker, Timberlake, 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.
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- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To go.
- 1647, Fletcher, John, Beggars' Bush, 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, Head, Richard, “The Beggars Curse”, in The Canting Academy:
- From thence at the Nubbing-cheat we trine in the Lightmans.
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Latin
References
- trine in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
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