TRINE

a. n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Threefold; triple; as, trine dimensions, or length, breadth, and thickness.

2.
n.

The aspect of planets distant from each other 120 degrees, or one third of the zodiac; trigon. In sextile, square, and trine. Milton.

3.
n.

A triad; trinity. [R.] A single trine of brazen tortoises. Mrs. Browning. Eternal One, Almighty Trine! Keble.

4.
v.

To put in the aspect of a trine. [R.] By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined. Dryden.


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