Tricorporate

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head. not-comparable

    "For quotations using this term, see Citations:tricorporate."

  2. 2
    Synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies (which may be separate, or joined at the waist, etc)”). not-comparable, rare

    "Kepler, who excelled as an imaginative writer , replied: 'I will not make an old man of Saturn, nor slaves of his attendant globes; but rather let this tricorporate form be Geryon so shall Galileo be Hercules, and the telescope[…]'"

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"For quotations using this term, see Citations:tricorporate."

Etymology

From tri- + corporate.

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