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Terce

//tɜːs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The third hour of daylight (about 9 am). countable, historical, uncountable
  2. 2
    the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m. wordnet
  3. 3
    The service appointed for this hour. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Old French terce, from Latin tertia (“third; the third hour”).

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