ternion

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Participants, some of whom had obsolete pickings the drugging for nearly ternion years, get disused told to collar picking their pills, but researchers forget go to succeed them for an undetermined duration of time, said comport scientist Lavatory Breit ... nytimes. com 5 hours ago:

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  1. A group of three. So, when Christ's Glory Isay would declare, To expresse Three Persons in on Godhead are, He, Holy, Holy, Holy nam'd, To show We might a Ternion in an Vnion know. Heywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 72.
  2. In bibliography, a section of paper for a book containing three double leaves or twelve pages. They say that a given manuscript is composed of quaternions and of ternions, but it never occurs to them either to describe the structure of a quaternion, or to say how we can distinguish the leaves one from another. Amer. Jour. Philol., VII. 27.

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  • Participants, some of whom had obsolete pickings the drugging for nearly ternion years, get disused told to collar picking their pills, but researchers forget go to succeed them for an undetermined duration of time, said comport scientist Lavatory Breit ... nytimes. com 5 hours ago: —  We Blog A Lot
  • Participants, some of whom had obsolete pickings the drugging for nearly ternion years, get disused told to collar picking their pills, but researchers forget go to succeed them for an undetermined duration of time, said comport scientist Lavatory Breit ... —  We Blog A Lot
  • The play of chances which brings up a ternion or a quaternion is nothing compared to what has been required to prevent the combination of which I am reaping the fruits from being disturbed. —  Recollections of My Youth
  • Able to assist the transforming and nourishing powers of Heaven and Earth, he may with Heaven and Earth form a ternion [2]. ' —  The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1
 

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  1. from Late Latin ternio(n-), the number three, from Latin terni, by threes: see tern.
 

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