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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(heraldry) Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head..
For quotations using this term, see Citations:tricorporate.
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 [...]
Use tricorporate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tricorporate means (heraldry) Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head..
Common synonyms include tricorporated, tricorporal.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:tricorporate.
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