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Trier   Listen
noun
Trier  n.  
1.
One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard.
2.
One who tries judicially.
3.
(Law) A person appointed according to law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.
4.
That which tries or approves; a test.





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"Trier" Quotes from Famous Books



... towards Speyer-and-Heidelberg quarter on the German side of the Rhine: [See map] here will be our bridge. Lorraine is already occupied, since the first day of the War; Trarbach, strong-place of the Moselle and Electorate of Trier, cannot be difficult to get? Thus were the Rhine Country, on the French side, secure to France; and so Berwick calculates he will have a basis on the Rhine, from which to shoot forth into the very heart of ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. IX. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... Ambleside, and indeed no other answer was given, or proper to be given, to so ensnaring and provoking a question. In the contour of scull certainly I discern something paternal. But whether in all respects the future man shall transcend his father's fame, Time the trier of geniuses must decide. Be it pronounced peremptorily at present, that Willy is a well-mannerd child, and though no great student, hath yet a lively eye for things that lie before him. Given in haste from my desk at Leadenhall. ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas


Words linked to "Trier" :   attempter, soul, someone, law, individual, jurist, essayer, try, judge, somebody, person


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