Tridented

Quick meaning: Tridented is an adjective meaning Having three prongs.

Meaning

Having three prongs.

More Meanings

1. Bearing a trident.

Example Sentences

[…]where the tridented Rhadamanthus—(Yama with Brahams, also tridentiferous?) with his three-headed dog Cerberus […] receives them into those unsunned dominions.

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: […]

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.

Trineus beholding a ſhape of ſuch ſtrangeneſſe, making the ſigne of the Croſſe on his breaſt, and aduauncing his Shield for his defence, ſtoode to defend what this deformed Monſter durſt doe: who lifting vppe his tridented forke, ſtrooke it quite thorow his Shielde, and the blowe falſing along his pouldrone, wounded him a little in the arme.

Synonyms for tridented

Depending on context, synonyms include tridental, tridentate, tridentiferous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spear, tridentlike, tridental, three-pronged, tridentated, threepronged.

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