Middle English Dictionary Entry
trīne adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | trīne adj. |
| Etymology | L trīnus & OF trine, trin. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Threefold, triple; triune; ~ and on, triune, constituting a trinity in unity; also, as noun, used as an epithet for God [2nd quot.]; (b) ~ aspect, astrol. the trigon aspect, an angle of 120° between two heavenly bodies or signs; the ~ compas, threefold space, the three realms or worlds comprised of earth, sea, and heaven.
Associated quotations
a
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)8.163 : O tryne and oon God, Lord, record y The.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)11.548 : Trine and Oon, louyng honour, empire Withouten ende vnto Thy myght eterne.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)81/259 : I Crye þe mercy..recomendynge me to þat godhyd þat is tryne in trone.
- a1500(?1451) Petrarch Secret.(Add 60577)227/901 : Y beseche thylke Lorde þat ys trine and oon To inspire thy wytt, and thy soule to puryfye.
- a1500 Chaucer TC (Hrl 3943)5.1879 : Thow One, tuoo, & thre eterne on Lyue That reignest ay in thre, tuoo, & oone..Trine vnite, vs from oure cruel foone Defende.
- a1500 Truth it (Cnt Add 68)p.72 : We joy may with owr Kyng, With seyntes and angelles..The face off very God bothe Trine and One.
b
- (c1380) Chaucer CT.SN.(Manly-Rickert)G.45 : With inne the cloistre blisful of thy sydis Took mannes shap the eternal loue and pees That of the tryne compas lord and gyde is, Whom erthe and see and heuene out of relees Ay heryen.
- a1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)88/33 : Put þe lord of thascendent in þe houses of Mars, seying to hym of a tryne aspect.
- a1550(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Sln 1873)2950 : Fortune your ascendent with his lorde allso, Kepynge aspectis of shrewys them fro..Cause them to looke with a tryne aspecte.