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A discourse or colloquy by three persons.

Of or pertaining to a trimester, or period of three months; occurring once in every three months; quarterly.

Arranged in three vertical or spiral rows.

Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.

Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria; as, typhomalarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both of malarial and typhoid fever.

Having only one row or series.

Not material; immaterial. [Obs.] Daniel.

he speech [of Zipporah, Ex. iv. 25] is not a speech of reproach or indignation, but of uxorial endearment. Geddes.

Or or pertaining to hunting; venatic. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a vertebræ and an artery; -- said of the foramina in the transverse processes of cervical vertebræ and of the canal which they form for the vertebral artery and vein.

Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes.

A certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, -- first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics.

Of or pertaining to visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial. An archdeacon has visitatorial power. Ayliffe. The queen, however, still had over the church a visitatorial power of vast and undefined extent. Macaulay.

Same as Visitatorial.

Of, pertaining to, or issued by, a vizier. [Written also vizirial.]

Hallam. A character of a more abnormous cast than his equally suspected coadjutor. State Trials.

A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

centric equations. -- Absolute space (Physics), space considered without relation to material limits or objects. -- Absolute terms. (Alg.), such as are known, or which do not contain the unknown quantity. Davies & Peck. -- Absolute temperature (Physics), the temperature as measured on a scale determined by certain g…

In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.

Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.