tertiate (English, verb)
expansion: tertiate (third-person singular simple present tertiates, present participle tertiating, simple past and past participle tertiated)
Senses:
glosses: To reduce by one third; especially, kill one third of (a group of people).
glosses: To increase by half as much again; especially to increase the price in this way.
tags: obsolete
glosses: To do or perform three times or for the third time.
tags: obsolete
rare
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.
Forms:
form: tertiates
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tertiating
tags: participle
present
form: tertiated
tags: participle
past
form: tertiated
tags: past