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Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindoo trinity, or Trimurti.

A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.

The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.

A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. "The gate of Trinity College." Macaulay.

Christ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. -- Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx. -- Corpus delicti (d Etym: [L., the body of the crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to estab…

of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

A fight or fighting; contest; strife. [Archaic] On the day of the Trinity next ensuing was a great debate . . . and in that murder there were slain . . . fourscore. R. of Gloucester. But question fierce and proud reply Gave signal soon of dire debate. Sir W. Scott.

by one who explains it; definition; inerpretation; sense. Different explanations [of the Trinity]. Bp. Burnet.

The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity. Our Father, which art in heaven. Matt. vi. 9. Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent down his eye. Milton. Adoptive father, one who adopts the child of another, treating it as his own. -- Apostolic father, Conscript fathers, e…

ly Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity. -- To give up or yield up the ghost, to die; to expire. And he gave up the ghost full softly. Chaucer. Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. Gen. xlix. 33.

adjure; to beseech; to entreat. [Obs.] O dere child, I halse thee, In virtue of the Holy Trinity. Chaucer.

ed. -- Holy Father, a title of the pope. -- Holy Ghost (Theol.),the third person of the Trinity; the Comforter; the Paraclete. -- Holy Grail. See Grail. -- Holy grass (Bot.), a sweet-scented grass (Hierochloa borealis and H. alpina). In the north of Europe it was formerly strewed before church doors on saints' days…

ian iconography, the study of the representations in art of the Deity, the persons of the Trinity, angels, saints, virtues, vices, etc.

y. Churches have names; some as memorials of peace, some of wisdom, some in memory of the Trinity itself. Hooker.

nd Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity. Eadie.

One of a sect in the early Christian church which rejected the doctrine of the Trinity; -- called also patripassian.

a mystery. 1 Cor. ii. 7. If God should please to reveal unto us this great mystery of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand them, unless he would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind. Swift.

Hindus an exclamation of assent, like Amen, then an invocation, and later a symbol of the trinity formed by Vishnu, Siva, and Brahma. -- Om mani padme hun, a sacred formula of buddhism (esp. of the Lamaists) translated "O, the Jewel in the Lotus, Amen," and referring to Amitabha, who is commonly represented as standing…

The union of four in one, as of four persons; -- analogous to the theological term trinity.

is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity.