Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having three heads. Compare
tricipital .
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Examples
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When we get to Macrobius' Saturnalia, this tricephalous monster becomes associated with Time, and Serapis is associated with the Sun.
Archive 2005-05-01 Miglior acque 2005
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When we get to Macrobius' Saturnalia, this tricephalous monster becomes associated with Time, and Serapis is associated with the Sun.
Titian, Allegory of Prudence Miglior acque 2005
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The benefit of unity had never been adequately appreciated till it had been lost, till the Church had become bicephalous of tricephalous, and there seemed to be no head precisely because there were too many.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Rome, the other at Avignon, yea, when he reads of three contestants for papal honors, and beholds the Church as a tricephalous monster, he must stop thinking.
Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation 1904
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