trine

See also: Trine, triné, and trinë

English

trine (not comparable)

Triple; threefold.
(astrology) Denoting the aspect of two celestial bodies which are 120° apart.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 1, member 2, subsection ii:
  The physicians refer this to their temperament, astrologers to trine and sextile aspects, or opposite of their several ascendants, lords of their genitures, love and hatred of planets […]

trine (plural trines)

A group of three things.
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Eighth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1857, →OCLC:
  a single trine of brazen tortoises
(astrology) An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart.

trine (third-person singular simple present trines, present participle trining, simple past and past participle trined)

(transitive, astrology) To put in the aspect of a trine.
- 1697, Virgil, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:
  By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.
(archaic, UK, thieves' cant) To hang; to execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
- 1612, Thomas Dekker, Lantern and Candlelight‎:
  Been Darkmans then booz Mort and Ken, / The been Coves bing awast / On Chats to trine by Rum-Coves dine, / For his long lib at last.
- 1988, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good, act 2, scene 1:
  Liz, he says, why trine for a make, when you can wap for a winne. I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin to sell my mother of saints.

From Middle English trynen, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”); compare Old Swedish trina (“to go”).

trine (third-person singular simple present trines, present participle trining, simple past and past participle trined)

(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To go.
- 1647, John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush‎, published 1706, act 3, scene 3, page 42:
  Twang dell's, i' the strommell, and let the Quire Cuffin: / And Herman Beck strine and trine to the Ruffin.
- 1673, Richard Head, “The Beggars Curse”, in The Canting Academy‎:
  From thence at the Nubbing-cheat we trine in the Lightmans.

trine

“trine” in Francisco Quindalé, Diccionario gitano, Madrid: Oficina Tipográfica del Hospicio.

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trīne

trine in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)