tertiate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To reduce by one third; especially, kill one third of (a group of people).

   “We are distinctly told that one cause of the terrible famine that has been — not decimating, but tertiating — the population of Rajpootana, has been the substitution of cotton for grain culture;”

2. fiil To increase by half as much again; especially to increase the price in this way.

   “The beam made for triplicating or tertiating any weight small enough to be weighed by it.”

3. fiil To do or perform three times or for the third time.

   “When you consult vvith me about the Personage that should first, or second, or tertiate your business with the King, I must answer as Demosthenes did of Action; My Lord Thresorer, My Lord Thresorer , and so again.”

4. fiil To divide into three parts, especially to divide into thirds.

   “To the point where now we are - unless people can have the resources and can pay for the resources of what we used to call tertiated medical centers, people are deprived and their expectations certainly are not met.”

5. fiil To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.
6. isim The third year of training in various Christian religious orders (especially the Jesuits).

   “Every day a whole hour must be devoted to it, in the novitiate even two hours; and every Jesuit is expected to spend at least one week in the year in meditation during his novitiate and in the tertiate a whole month.”

7. isim One who is in their tertiate training.

   “Her first house was in New York City , on Water Street , in the neighbourhood of Jerry McAuley's mission. In 1899 she became a Dominican tertiate.”

8. isim The third classification of animals in some ranked taxonomic systems, such as that proposed by Linnaeus.

   “That of De Blainville had " Primates " (primates and doubtful sloths) , "Secundates" (insectivores and carnivores) , "Tertiates" (rodents), and " Quaternates” (ungulates and sirenians), all in a grand division of the "well-toothed" ("bien dentés"), i.e. the edentates.”

9. sıfat Having 2:3 proportion.

   “The proportions are not tertiate, and there is no north gate.”

10. sıfat Having three parts.

    “apex generally somewhat acuminate; margin entire, crenate or finely dentate — leaves on lower branches and coppice shoots reputed to be 1-3 lobed; lateral veins 2-4 pairs, tertiate veins forming a prominent reticulum.”