Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of three divisions; a third: for a special use, see the extracts.
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Examples
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1727C: De pusillis autem in tertia persona loquitur; de discipulis vero in secunda, Matthaei 18.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Classes were once more discontinued from 1306 to 1313, when Clement V commanded the "tertia" to be used in restoring the churches.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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_Nuovo lume_ [612] the use of ordinals is quite confused, the propositions on a single page being numbered "tertia," "4," and "V."
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902
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a third of the "tertia" was once more devoted to paying the professors of law, civil and canon, medicine, logic, grammar, and music.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The greater part of the time was spent in a final review of four White Book translations of Missale Romanum, editio typica tertia, as produced by the International Commission on English in the Liturgy and recently approved by several Conferences of Bishops.
Archbishop Prendergast on the 17th Session of the Vox Clara Committee 2009
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According to the first Ordo Romanus, the liturgy of the Presanctified was also celebrated “hora tertia” by the Pope in the mid-7th century; the first part of it, the Mass of the Catechumens, was then repeated by the parish clergy in their churches towards evening.
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Indeed, the first Ordo Romanus indicates explicitly that the Mass is to be said “hora tertia”.
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The “Ensemble Sonoritas” from Innsbruck under direction of Matthias Melzer marvellously sang a beautiful polyphonic renaissance Mass, the “Missa tertia” by the German composer Hans Leo Hassler von Roseneck (1564-1612).
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"'Et resurrexit tertia die secundum Scripturas' -- on the third day he rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures."
Archive 2008-03-30 papabear 2008
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St. Augustine both specifically mentions and quotes three of St. Ambrose' canonical hymns: "Aeterne rerum Conditor", "Deus Creator omnium", and "Iam surgit hora tertia".
The Christmas Office bls 2008
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