Tricorporate

Quick meaning: Tricorporate is an adjective meaning (heraldry) Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head.

Meaning

(heraldry) Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head.

More Meanings

1. (rare) Synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies (which may be separate, or joined at the waist, etc)”).

Example Sentences

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Kepler, who excelled as an imaginative writer , replied: 'I will not make an old man of Saturn, nor slaves of his attendant globes; but rather let this tricorporate form be Geryon so shall Galileo be Hercules, and the telescope[…]'

Athena wears a belted peplos, a bracelet, a necklace, and a fillet; in her left hand she holds a spear. [...] The tricorporate monster is joined from the hips to the shoulders. One part, on the foremost plane, is dying and turns[…]

[...] attractive suggestion that the famous threeheaded 'Bluebeard' from the Old Temple of Athena (Heberdey 1919: 52–69) on the Acropolis in Athens represents Geryon. Images of a threeheaded, tricorporate warrior first appear in Cyprus in the [...]

Synonyms for tricorporate

Depending on context, synonyms include tricorporated, tricorporal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tricorporated, tricorporal, bicorporate, tricorporeal, tricephalous, bicorporated.

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