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Webster 1913 Edition
Tertian
Ter′tian
,Adj.
(Med.)
Occurring every third day;
as, a
. tertian
feverTer′tian
,Noun.
[L.
tertiana
(sc. febris
): cf. OF. tertiane
.] 1.
(Med.)
A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
2.
A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tertian
TER'TIAN
,Adj.
Occurring every other day; as a tertian fever.
TER'TIAN
,Noun.
1.
A measure of 84 gallons, the third part of a tun.Definition 2024
tertian
tertian
English
Adjective
tertian (not comparable)
- Of a fever, characterised by paroxysms every third day.
- (music) Pertaining to the mean-tone temperament, in which major thirds are perfectly in tune.
Noun
tertian (plural tertians)
- A tertian fever.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- And although we feele it not, it is not to bee doubted, if a continuall ague may in the end suppresse our mind, a tertian will also (according to her measure and proportion) breed some alteration in it.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto 1:
- He died of the slow fever call'd the tertian, / And left his widow to her own aversion.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- The puncheon, an old wine cask, three of which made a tun.