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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In logic, a syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See dilemma.
  2. n. Hence, in general, any choice between three objects.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A circumstance in which a choice must be made between three options that seem equally undesirable.
  2. n. logic A syllogism containing three alternatives that each infer the same conclusion.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Logic) A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See dilemma.
  2. n. A state of things in which it is difficult to determine which one of three courses to pursue.

Etymologies

  1. Modelled on dilemma, replacing di-, two with tri-, three (Wiktionary)

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