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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Trine

Trine (trīn), a. [See Trinal.] Threefold; triple; as, trine dimensions, or length, breadth, and thickness.

Trine, n. [F. trine, trin. See Trinal.] 1. (Astrol.) The aspect of planets distant from each other 120 degrees, or one third of the zodiac; trigon.

In sextile, square, and trine. Milton.

2. A triad; trinity. [R.]

A single trine of brazen tortoises. Mrs. Browning.

Eternal One, Almighty Trine! Keble.

Trine, v. t. To put in the aspect of a trine. [R.]

By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined. Dryden.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.