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noun
The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
The service appointed for this hour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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noun
A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: Scots law
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noun
the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: tierce
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: canonical hour
History
Late Middle English, from Old French terce, from Latin tertia (“third; the third hour”).
Across languages
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
