tertiate

Meanings

Verb

• To reduce by one third; , kill one third of (a group of person).
• To increase by half as much again; to increase the price in this way.
• To do or perform three times or for the third time.
• To divide into three parts, especially to divide into thirds.
• 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.

Noun

• The third year of training in various Christian religious orders (especially the Jesuits).
• One who is in their tertiate training.
• The third classification of animals in some ranked taxonomic systems, such as that proposed by Linnaeus.

Adjective

• Having 2:3 proportion.
• Having three parts.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin, the perfect passive participial stem of Latin tertiō, from tertius.