tertiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tûrʹshĭāt
ipa: /ˈtɜːʃɪeɪt/
Forms: form: tertiates
form: tertiating
form: tertiated
form: tertiated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tertiāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of Latin tertiō, from tertius (“third”).
Senses: examples: text: 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;
ref: 1870, Frederick William Chesson, The Opium Trade Between India and China in Some of Its Present Aspects, page 19:
text: Seven spills of paper of precisely equal length were given round, and after an interval collected. Had any of them been dimidiated, tertiated or even decimated, the proposed election was void.
ref: 1912 May 3rd, F. Madan, “letter to Sir William [Osler]” quoted by Harvey Cushing in The Life of Sir William Osler II (2010), pages 999–1,000
text: “The Jews…were not merely decimated, for that means only one in ten of the world’s Jews were killed by the Nazis, but tertiated. One in every three were slaughtered.”
ref: 1979, Frank Gervasi, The Life and Times of Menahem Begin, page 42:
text: The Jewish People were not decimated…. Our people lost every third of its sons or its daughters…it was tertiated.
ref: 1981, Meron Medzini, editor, Israel’s Foreign Relations: 1977–1979, page 85:
glosses: To reduce by one third; especially, kill one third of (a group of people).
examples: text: The beam made for triplicating or tertiating any weight small enough to be weighed by it.
ref: 1757, The history of the R. Society of London, page 242:
text: such a fancy never produces any other effect, but that of tertiating or doubling the price of things.
ref: 1786, Walker's Hibernian Magazine, page 703:
text: the chief and true point, is, that all secret intrigues, all public combinations, ended only in occasioning a reform in what was deemed abusive, in a regulation the advantages of which were fully demonstrated; and that the price of wheat, after having tertiated, doubled, trebled perhaps by the help of the forestallers, from whose abilities were expected the repeal of the law and the fall of its devisers, was fixed at last between one half and three fourths above the price, as it was upon the medium of ten years preceding the regulation.
ref: 1786, Charles de Marquis Casaux, Thoughts on the Mechanism of Societies, page 273:
glosses: To increase by half as much again; especially to increase the price in this way.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1672, Sir Henry Wotton, Izaak Walton, Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, page 559:
text: The ordinary sales shall be made by the Grand-Master, or by the Officer of the Maitrise, with the same forms as ought to be observed in regard to determination and survy of sites of fellings, martellage, balliveaux, publication, auction sales, dublication, tertiating, and verification of our woods;
ref: 1883, John Croumbie Brown, French Forest Ordinance of 1669, page 134:
text: In front of the doors, a long table, on which chops of mutton, or steaks of beef, just killed, shot out of a frying - pan in company with potent onions and floods of boiling grease , followed each other , morning, noon, and night, on which wayfarers were expected to tertiate each day the tough teeth-task, accomplished through the soft insipidity of squashed pumpkins and sweet potatoes.
ref: 1966, John Maxwell Freeland, The Australian Pub, page 115:
text: A young girl of morals pervertiate Invited an old man to tertiate. She tried all she knew And her sister did too, But the darned thing just hung there inertiate.
ref: 1968, Penthouse - Volume 3, Issues 7-12, page 23:
glosses: To do or perform three times or for the third time.
examples: text: Had this question ever been scientifically treated, it would have been easy to see that this discord arises from the inappropriate position of the arithmetical termini which man, while in the stage of ante-grammatical inventiveness, fixed at ten (10) from the number of his fingers; that it is not given to us to conceive thé relation between part and parcel , or unit and fraction, but after having halved, or at most tertiated a unit or the fraction arising from such a process; that we, therefore, no more can fancy what the tenth part of a loaf of bread is than count the sands of the desert;
ref: 1867, S. J. Cassimati, The Greeks and Their Detractors, page 69:
text: 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.
ref: 1989, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, Health Insurance Coverage and Reform, page 130:
text: Government draws-and-quarters our economy. Although a more accurate description might be tertiating because the one direction the government won't pull us is forward.
ref: 2010, Bill Flax, The Courage to Do Nothing, page 188:
text: Libido is “tertiated” and the shell fissured, becoming permeable to affects, the other, and reality.
ref: 2021, Gabriela Goldstein, Art in Psychoanalysis:
glosses: To divide into three parts, especially to divide into thirds.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: 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.
Coordinate terms: sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅕
word: quintate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅙
word: sextate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅐
word: septimate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅒
word: decimate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ¹⁄₁₂
word: duodecimate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ¹⁄₁₀₀
word: centesimate