trinal

adj

trinal

adj

UK /ˈtɹaɪnəl/

Etymology From the Medieval Latin trīnālis.

1

Archaic Having three parts; triple.

  • Like as it had bene many an Angels voice, // Singing before th’ eternall maiesty, // In their trinall triplicities on hye.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza XXXIX, page 181:
  • The trinal division of body, mind and soul becomes a unity, a holy trinity. And with it the realization that one aspect of our nature cannot be exalted above another...1941, Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart:

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