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▪ I. ‖ trite, n. Anc. Gr. Mus.|ˈtrɪtiː|
[a. Gr. τρίτη, fem. of τρίτος third (sc. χορδή string).]
Name of the third string or note (counting from the highest) in each of the higher tetrachords.
1603Holland Plutarch Explan. Words, Trite Diezeugmenon, The third of disjuncts, a string or note in the scale of musicke C sol fa ut. Trite Hyperbolæon, A treble string; the third of Exceeding or treble; F fa ut. Trite Synemmenon, or Syzeugmenon, The third of the Conjuncts, a string or note in musicke, B fa, B mi in rule. 1776Burney Hist. Mus. (1789) I. i. 16 Trite, the third string from the top of the two last tetrachords. 1801in Busby Dict. Mus.
▪ II. trite, a.|traɪt|
[ad. L. trītus, pa. pple. of terĕre to rub.]
1. Worn out by constant use or repetition; devoid of freshness or novelty; hackneyed, commonplace, stale.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V 40 b, Accordyng to the trite adage: He must liberally spende that will plentefully gayne. 1607Puritan iii. v. 162, I would not haue my Arte vulgar, trite, and common. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 384 A Saying not triter than truer. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) V. 133 It is a trite observation, that gunpowder was discovered by a monk. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xviii, An art of building up a character for wisdom upon a very trite style of commonplace eloquence. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. (1855) I. i. vii. §32. 407 The story told by Erasmus of Colet is also a little too trite for repetition. 1885Athenæum 28 Mar. 401 The theme of Death can no more wear trite than the theme of Love.
2. Well worn; worn out by rubbing; frayed; of a road or path, well-trod, beaten, frequented.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. i. iii, If my behaviours had beene of a cheape or customary garbe; my accent, or phrases, vulgar; my garments trite. 1656Blount Glossogr., Trite, worne, over-worne, old, threedbare, much used, common. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. i. §25 Unexpected Emergences, whereby we pass not our days in the trite road of affairs affording no Novity. 1855Fraser's Mag. LI. 272 Specimens of the bronze coinage of the later empire;..mostly trite and faceless. 1861G. F. Berkeley Sportsm. W. Prairies vii. 98 The woods were..unbroken save by the straight trite line of hasty locomotion. |