Tertiate

Quick meaning: Tertiate is a verb meaning To reduce by one third; especially, kill one third of (a group of people).

Meaning

To reduce by one third; especially, kill one third of (a group of people).

More Meanings

1. To divide into three parts, especially to divide into thirds.
2. The third year of training in various Christian religious orders (especially the Jesuits).
3. One who is in their tertiate training.
4. The third classification of animals in some ranked taxonomic systems, such as that proposed by Linnaeus.
5. (firearms) 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.
6. (obsolete) To increase by half as much again; especially to increase the price in this way.
7. (rare, obsolete) To do or perform three times or for the third time.

Example Sentences

The beam made for triplicating or tertiating any weight small enough to be weighed by it.

such a fancy never produces any other effect, but that of tertiating or doubling the price of things.

The Jewish People were not decimated…. Our people lost every third of its sons or its daughters…it was tertiated.

“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.”

Word Forms

• tertiates
• tertiating
• tertiated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include decimate, halve, abate, shred, cut down, reduce.

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