tridented
adj/ˈtɹaɪdəntɪd/
Etymology From trident + -ed.
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Bearing a trident.
- MOuntaines ſhall mooue, the Sun his circling courſe Shall ſtop; Tridented Neptune ſhall diuorce Th’embracing floods, from their beloued Iles, Ere Heauen forgets his ſeruant, and recoiles From his eternall vow: […]1625, Fra[ncis] Quarles, Sions Elegies. Wept by Ieremie the Prophet, and Periphras’d by Fra. Quarles., London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Thomas Dewe, […]:
- […]where the tridented Rhadamanthus—(Yama with Brahams, also tridentiferous?) with his three-headed dog Cerberus […] receives them into those unsunned dominions.1834, Edward Moor, “Fragments—Fourth. Descriptive Account of the Plates in This Volume.”, in Oriental Fragments, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 462:
2 more examples
- Finally there were gods allotted to the sixteen regions of the sky, mapped on the bronze liver used for divination purposes, found at Piacenza. Some of these are equated with Greek deities, about others little is known. Tinia, Uni and Menrva of course appear and also Nethuns, the tridented sea god equated with Poseidon.1963, H[offman] R[eynolds] Hays, In the Beginnings: Early Man and His Gods, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →LCCN, page 182:
- A friend of hers, she told me, had taken Freddie to the seaside for the afternoon – Freddie had always been fascinated by the sea, and would sit on the shingle for hours gazing out with rapt attention over this strange, unknowable, shifting element, as if he had once seen something rising out of it, a sea monster, or a tridented god, and was patiently waiting for it to appear again.1997, John Banville, The Untouchable, Picador, →ISBN, page 237: