verb
tertiate
Tertiate (verb) means to cut something by a third, especially to kill one in three of a group of people.
verb
1
To cut something by a third, especially to kill one in three of a group of people.
2
To increase something by half of its original amount, especially a price.
3
To do or perform three times or for the third time.
4
To split something into three equal parts.
"Government draws-and-quarters our economy. Although a more accurate description might be tertiating because the one direction the government won't pull us is forward."
— Bill Flax, The Courage to Do Nothing (2010)
"Libido is “tertiated” and the shell fissured, becoming permeable to affects, the other, and reality."
— Gabriela Goldstein, Art in Psychoanalysis (2021)
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tertiāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of Latin tertiō, from tertius (“third”). By surface analysis, terti- + -ate.
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What is the meaning of tertiate?
"tertiate" (verb) means to cut something by a third, especially to kill one in three of a group of people.
What are the different meanings of tertiate?
"tertiate" has 3 main meanings: 1. To cut something by a third, especially to kill one in three of a group of people; 2. To increase something by half of its original amount, especially a price; 3. To do or perform three times or for the third time.
