tertian

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Characterised by paroxysms recurring every other day (that is, every third day by inclusive reckoning).
2. sıfat Pertaining to the mean-tone temperament, in which major thirds are perfectly in tune.
3. isim A tertian fever.

   “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.”

4. isim A cask of a certain size; its volume used as a measure of capacity (one-third of a tun's).
5. isim A Jesuit going through tertianship.