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tertian

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Definitions

  1. of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds

Word origin

From Middle English tertiān, terciān, terciāne (adjective and noun), originally often as part of the collocation fever cum terciane, after Latin febris cum tertiānā. Compare the "third" essence of tertiary. By surface analysis, terti- + -an.

Used in a sentence

  • And although we feele it not, it is not to bee doubted, if a continuall ague may in the end suppresse our mind, a tertian will also (according to her measure and proportion) breed some alteration in it.
  • He died of the slow fever call'd the tertian, / And left his widow to her own aversion.

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