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tricorporate

adj

Etymology

From tri- + corporate.

  1. derived from corporātus
  2. inherited from corporat — “(if a true adjective) corporeal, physical, embodied; (participle/participial adjective) incorporated; corporated, constituted as a legal corporation”
  3. prefixed as tricorporate — “tri + corporate”

Definitions

  1. Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head.

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:tricorporate.

  2. Synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies (which may be separate, or joined at the…

    Synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies (which may be separate, or joined at the waist, etc)”).

    • 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[…]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA