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Triplicity

noun
1.
(astrology) one of four groups of the zodiac where each group consists of three signs separated from each other by 120 degrees.  Synonym: trigon.
2.
The property of being triple.






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"Triplicity" Quotes from Famous Books



... astronomical researches, I must mention an observation made at the end of 1612, that the apparent triplicity of Saturn (Fig. ...
— Pioneers of Science • Oliver Lodge

... called, was not so abundant at this season but that Cerizet could manage it without help. Cerizet, compositor, clicker, and foreman, realized in his person the "phenomenal triplicity" of Kant; he set up type, read proof, took orders, and made out invoices; but the most part of the time he had nothing to do, and used to read novels in his den at the back of the workshop while he waited for an order for a bill-head or a trade circular. Marion, trained ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac

... mystery, and attempting to define move clearly what he means by three persons and one substance, the Trinitarian often sinks the Unity in the Triplicity, and so runs ashore upon Tritheism. This happens when he explains the term "person" as implying independent existence; in which case the Unity is changed into Union. Then we have really three Gods: the FATHER, ...
— Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors • James Freeman Clarke

... man, "it's Jameson, the astrologer, and he has come here to let you know that Cosmo Versal was born under the sign Cancer, the first of the watery triplicity, and ...
— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss

... very benign, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather; for in such cases there will be frequent conjunctions of sirloins and ribs of beef; aspects of legs and shoulders of mutton, with refrenations of loins of veal, shining near the watery triplicity of plumb-porridge—together with trine and sextile of minced pies; collared brawn from the Ursus major, and sturgeon from Pisces—all for the honour of Christmas: and I think it is a much pleasanter sight than a Covent-Garden comedy, to see a dozen or two of husbandmen, farmers, ...
— Thaumaturgia • An Oxonian



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