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triplicity|trɪˈplɪsɪtɪ|
[ad. late L. triplicitāt-em, f. L. triplex, -icem: see triplex and -ity. Cf. F. triplicité (14–15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. The quality or condition of being triple; threefold character or existence; tripleness, three-foldness.
1555Eden Decades 1 One god whom we honour in triplicitie of person. 1624Heywood Gunaik. vi. 268 To this three-fold age, I compare the triplicitie of the Muses. 1690Burnet Th. Earth iii. 10 This triplicity of the heavens and the earth is the first, obvious, plain sence of the apostle's discourse. 1705Hearne Collect. 12 Dec. (O.H.S.) I. 126 The Triplicity of the Crownes. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. I. ii. 45 He was clergyman, physician, and lawyer, at once. How this singular triplicity came to take place, I cannot say.
2. A combination or group of three things, beings, or attributes; three things collectively; a triad, trio, triplet.
1585S. R. (title) The Choise of Change: Containing the Triplicitie of Diuinitie, Philosophie, and Poetrie. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. xii. 39 Many an Angels voice Singing before th'eternall majesty, In their trinall triplicities on hye. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 451 The Panther..is joyned with the Lion and the Wolf, to make up the triplicity of ravening Beasts. 1660Waterhouse Arms & Arm. 143 Solomon, Marcus Antoninus, and our late King James, a triplicity of unparalleld Majesties. 1899F. M. Crawford Via Crucis vi. 71 A most perfect triplicity of beauty, grace and elastic strength.
†b. A multiple by three; three times the amount. Obs. rare—1.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xii. 218 Affirming..what receiveth motion in the seventh, to be perfected in the Triplicities; that is, the time of conformation..from motion unto the birth [is] treble.
3. spec. in Astrol. A combination of three of the twelve signs of the zodiac, each sign being distant 120° or the third part of a circle from the other two: = trigon 2 a.
Each of the four triplicities is named after one of the ‘elements’, of whose qualities it is supposed to partake; thus airy t. = Gemini, Libra, Aquarius; earthy t. = Taurus, Virgo, Capricornus; fiery t. = Aries, Leo, Sagittarius; watery t. = Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. ix. (Bodl. MS.) lf. 80/1 Þese howses beþ icleped þe howses of triplicite and somme of exaltacioun, for þilke signes þat accordeþ in one kinde makeþ triplicite and have .o. name. c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 1054 The sayd xii signes..ben devided by foure triplicites. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xiii. vii. (1886) 243 In Aries, Leo, and Sagittarie is a certain triplicitie. 1650R. Gell Serm. 8 Aug. 45 Talk not to them of fiery, aiery, watry, earthly triplicities. 1815Scott Guy M. iii, I will calculate his nativity according to the rule of the ‘Triplicities’, as recommended by Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Diocles, and Avicenna. 1855Smedley, etc. Occult Sciences 307 The Four Triplicities is another distribution of the twelve signs into groups of three.
†b. fig. or allusively. Obs.
1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 140 So many influences and triplicityes of loove. 1647Husbandman's Plea agst. Tithes 70 The fiery triplicitie..of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. 1680Hon. Cavalier 15 The Pope, the Fanatick, and the Turk, that Fiery Triplicity of the World. |