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turn'd into a Confonant : Scioppius afferts the contrary : — However this may be in the Lathi and Greek, which were the only Languages ghtintilian underftood ; 'tis certain there are fevcral Languages in Europe, wherein Tripthongues arc in Ufe. See Diphthong.
TRIPTOTES, in Grammar, defective Nouns, which have only three Cafes, See Case.
Such are the Words Tantundem, Tantandem, T&ntidem, and Sordis, Sordem, Sorde.
The Word is compounded of 7-f«f, three, and qfomr, Cafe.
TRIREME, Triremis, in Antiquity, a Galley with three Ranks of Oars on a Side. See Galley.
TRlS-ZJiapafcm, in Mufic, a Concord, otherwise call'd a triple Eighth or Fifteenth. See Concord.
TRISACRAMENTALES, Trissacramentarians, an Appellation given to a SeCl in Religion, who admit of three Sacraments, and no more. See Sacrament.
There have been feveral Trifacramentarians among the Proteftants, who allow'd of Baptifm, the Eucharift, and Abfolution, for Sacraments. — The Englifi are often mifre- prefented by Foreigners as Trifacramentari&ns, from an Opi- nion that they allow Ordination a Sacrament. See Ordi- nation.
TRISAGION, or Trisagium, in Church Hiftory, a Hymn, wherein the Word holy is repeated three Times, See Hymn.
The proper Trifagion is thofe Words holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hofs, which we read in Ifaiah »/i. 3 . and in the Apo- calypfe.
From thefe Words, the Church form'd another Trifagion, which is rehears'd in Latin and Greek, in the refpcclive Churches, to this Effect : Holy God, holy Forty holy Im- mortal l have Mercy upon us.
Tetrus Fullenfis to this Trifagion added, Thou who waft cruciffd for us, have Mercy upon us : Thus attributing the Paflion not to the Son alone, but to all the three Perfbns of the trinity, and pronouncing Anathema to all fuch as would not fay the fame.
The Ufe of this latter 'Trifagion, (exclufive of the Additi- on of Fullenfis) began in the Church of Confiantinople, from whence it pafsM into the other Churches of the Eaft, and afterwards into thofe of the Weft. — tDamajcentls, Codin, Salfamon, and others, fay it was in the Time of the Patri- arch 'Prochts that it was firft introdue'd, and on the follow- ing Occafion : There being a violent Earthquake in the 35th Tear of the younger T 'heoiofus, the Patriarch made a grand Proceffionj wherein, for feveral Hours together, was' fung the Kyrie Eleifon, Lord have Mercy upon us. While this was in Hand, a Child was taken up into the Air, where, it feems, he heard the Angels a fihging the Trifagion juft men- tionM. He return'd fbon after, and told what he had heard : Upon which ihey began to jSng that Hymn, and the more willingly too, as they attributed the Troubles they were then under to the Blafphemies which the Hereticks of Confian- tinople utter'd againft the Son. — Afclepiades, Cedremts, Pope Felix, Nicephor*is, Sec. relate the fame Story.
^Petrus Fullenfis, Patriarch of Antioch, and a zealous Par- tizan of Neftorius, endeavour'd to corrupt the Hymn, by add- ing, who fi/jfer'd for US ; but in vain : It fiill fubfifls in its primitive Purity, both in the Latin, Greek, Ethiopic, and Mofarabic Offices; See Patrip assions.
The Word is compounded of the Greek, -rp«f, three, and tty@-, fanBus, holy.
TRISECTION, or Trissection, a dividing of a Thing into three. See Division, Section, &c.
The Term is chiefly us'd in Geometry, for the Divifion of an Angle into three equal Parts. See Angle.
The TrifetJion of an Angle geometrically, is one of thofe great Problems, whofe Solution has been fo much fought by Mathematicians for thefe two thoufand Years 5 being, in this refpec~t, on a Footing with the Quadrature of the Circle, and the Duplicate of the Cube Angle. See Problem.
Several late Authors have wrote of the TrifeBion of the Angle, and pretend to have found out the Demonftration thereof; but they have all committed Paralbgifms. See Angle.
TRISMEGISTUS, an Epithet or Surname given to that of the two Hsrmes's or Mercuries, Kings of" Thebes, in •JEgypt, who was cotemporary with Mofes.
Mercury, or Hermes Trifmegiftus, is the latter of the two ; the former having reign'd about the Time of the Deluge. — They are both of them reprefented as Authors of many Arts and Inftitutions of the Egyptians. ^ See Hermetic.
The Word is form'd from t?U, thrice, and f«Vr©- , greateft.
TRISOLYMPIONICES, among the Ancients, a Perfon who had thrice bore away the Prize at the Olympic Games. See Olympic.
The Trifolvmpionices, or Trifclympi snicks, had great Pri- vileges and Honours allow'd them. — Statues were creeled to them, of the Kind call'd Iconics, which were modelfd to the Size and Form of their Ferfons. See Static
They were exempted from . all Charges and Incumbrances., and could never be marlc'd with Infamy.
The Word is compos'd of t?«?, tres, three, Owmw, Q- lympic Games, and vm, Victory.
TRISOS, of the Greek 7fi^», a Convulfion of the Muf- cles of the Temples, caufmg the Teeth to gnafh. Sere Con- vulsion, £s?c.
TRlSfAST, Trispaston, in Mcchanicks, a Machine with three .Pullics: or an AfTembWe of tha'c Pullies Sec Pully.
The Trifpapn is a Species of Polyfpafton-. See Polys-
PASTON.
The Word is compounded of 7-fHf, three, and <nr&&> traho.
TRISTRIS, Tristis, and Trista, in our old Law- Books, is an Immunity, whereby a Man is excus'd from at- tending on the Lord of a -Forelt, when he is difpos'd to chafe within the Foreft $ and is alfo not compell'd to hold a Dog, follow the Chafe, nor fland at a Place appointed, which otherwife he might be under Pain of Amercement. Mami\ fint quieti, tfc. de Chevagio, Londepenny, "Euckfiol & Triftrij de omnibus Mifericordih, ,f£c. <Privileg. de Semplihgham.
TRISYLLABLE, or Trissyllaele, in Grammar, a Word confifling but of three Syllables. See Word and Syl- lable.
TRITE, in Mufic, the third muficalChord. See Chord and Diagram.
TRITHEISM, the Opinion of the Tritheifis, or the Ke- refy of believing three Gods. See God and Trinity.
Tritheifm confifls in admitting not only of three Perfbns in the Godhead ; but of three Subftances, three Effences of Hypoflafes, and three Gods. See Person, Hypostasis,
Several People out of Fear of giving into Tritheifm have become Sabellians ; and feveral others, to avoid Sabelliamfm^ have commene'd Tritheifis ; fo delicate and fubtle is the Me- dium. See Sabellian.
In the famous Controverfy between Dr. South and Dr.' Sherlock, the firit is judg'd to have run into Sabellianifm, bv a too rigorous afferting of the Unity of the Godhead ; ancl the latter into Tritherfm, by a too abfolute maintaining the Trinity.
John the Grammarian, furnam'd Philcponus, Lover of Labour, is held the Author of the Seel: of the Tritheifts, under the Emperor 'Phocas ; at leaft it appears he was a zea- lous Advocate thereof. ---- Leonthts and Georgius ^Pijtdes wrote againfl; him
TRITON, in Poetry, a Sea Demi-God, held by the An- cients to be an Officer or Trumpeter of Neptune, attending on him, and carrying his Orders and Commands from Sea to Sea. See God.
The Poets and Painters rcprefent him as half Man, half Fifn, terminating in a Dolphin's Tail, and bearing in one Hand a Sea-fhell, which fe~v'd as a Trumpet.
Some of the Ancients make him the Son of Neptune, and the Nymph Salacia - y Hefiod of Neptune and Amphitrite ; Neurmnius in his Book de Tifcatwifois, makes him the Son of Ocean and Tethy's ; and Lycophron the Son of Neptune. . But tho' Hefiod, and the iMythoio-ifrs, only fpeak of one Triton, yet the Poets have imagin'd Several 5 giving fome of them for Trumpeters to all the Sea-Gods, particularly toNep- tune and Venus : accordingly they were frequently introdue'd on the ancient Theatres, and in the Naumachia.
In effect^ the Tnt&tt not only officiated as Trumpeters in Nepttme's Retinue , but were alfo fuppos'd to draw his Cha- riot, ii e. the Sea-fhell wherein he rode over the Waters, as we find in Virgil JEmid X. 209. Ovid Met am. I. 3 33. and on a Medal of Claudius.
The Fable of the Tritons, no doubt, took its Rife froni Sea or Mer-men ; for that there are fuch Things as Sea-men, would feem a Thing fcarce to be doubted, after what we have faid under the Article MzR-maid.
The Poets ordinarily attribute to Triton the Office of calm- ing the Waves, and of making Tempeirs ceafe. -- Thus in the ill of the Metamorphofes we read, that Neptune defiring to recal the Waters of the Deluge, commanded Triton to found his Trumpet, at the Noife whereof the Waters all retir'd.
TRITONE, Triton, in Mufic, a falfe Concord, confifl- ing of three Tones, or a greater Third, and a greater Tone. See Concord.
Its Ratio, or Proportion in Numbers, is of 45 to n- In dividing the Octave, we find, on one Side, the falfe Fifth, and the Tritone on the other. Sec Octave.
The Tritone is a kind of redundant Third, confifling of three Tones, whence its Name ; or, more properly, of two Tones, with a greater Semitone, and a letter, as of tit to fa, of fa to ft, £ffc —But it is not, as many imagine, a greater Fourth ; for the Fourth is a perfeft Interval, which does not admit of any Majority or Minority: Nor muft the Tritone be confounded with the falfe Fifth ; for the Tritons only comprehends four Degrees, viz., ut, re, mi, fa, whereas the [ S f f ] fa,li*
