† trientn.
Obsolete.
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a. The ancient Roman copper coin called triens: see triens n.
b. An angle of 120°, comprising one-third of the circumference of a circle; in Astrology = trine n. 2 (also adj. = trine adj. 2).
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1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 24 When they are asunder 120 degrees, which is called a triangle, Trygon, or Trient aspect.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. xiii. 513 The Servilij..have among them a certaine peece of brasse coine called a Triens (i. the third part of a Romane Asse) which they doe keepe and feed with silver and gold... I will set downe..the verie words of old Messala: The house (quoth he) of the Servilij hath a certaine sacred Trient.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. v, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Y4v Three ounces..or at most a trient, that is four ounces.
1657 Physical Dict. Trient, a third part.
1673 J. Wallis Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 570 If the angle be more than a trient, and less than two trients, whose subtendant..I suppose to be the chord of a trient increased by one of the arches.
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