Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having three centripetally developed xylem plates: said of vascular cylinders.
- In botany, noting radial fibrovascular bundles having three rays.
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Examples
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That she will rejoice the most indulgent of pa-rents and the most affectionate of brothers, with a cheerful aspect at table, especially before the pa-triarch.
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The high value he set upon the Rev.P. Taggart (whom he used to call 'the P.triarch of the Border'), and on the hard-worked Highland priests, is well remembered.
Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 Robert Ornsby 1854
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The pa - triarch dresses like the pope, and the canons hke the cardinals.
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The Syrian preserved some remains of their Christians enjoyed a succession ancient Uberty, are caUfcd tbe Sy - of tuahops appcnnted by the Pa - rian Chrisiians. triarch of Antioch, from the be - Of these there are at preacDt ginning of the third century till fifty-five churches, comprehend - they were invaded by tbe Portu - ing according to one account guese.
The Panoplist (and Missionary magazine) conducted by an association of ... 1812
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If ever a mortal had cause to fix his hopes on any object, it was undoubtedly this pa - triarch.
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Under the pa - triarch and the maphrian, one hundred and fifty archbifliops and bifbops have been counted in the different ages of the Jacobite church; but the order of the hierarchy is relaxed or ditfolved, and the greater part of their diocefes is confined to the neighbourhood of the Euphrates and the Tigris.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1788
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Leo, the elder, fucceiTor to Marcian, pro - claimed emperor, and crowned by the pa - triarch of Conftantinople, xiv. 4x5.
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1781
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£lius to be crowned, with the ufual folemnity, by the pa - triarch Polyeudus; 'and imagining he had thus fecured the empire to his poftcrity, he took po farther care either of his family or the public.
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1780
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'fOSOi with a. tail (Lord Monboddo's pa - triarch); but the greater number of authorities has occurred to me iu casual reading;.
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