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Tertian

adjective
1.
Relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day.
2.
Of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds.






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"Tertian" Quotes from Famous Books



... you come of women, come in quickly to sir Iohn: A poore heart, hee is so shak'd of a burning quotidian Tertian, that it is most lamentable to behold. Sweet men, ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... a severe tertian ague every now and then kept putting the traveller in mind that his shattered frame, "starting and shivering in the inconstant blast, meagre and pale, the ghost of what it was," wanted repairs. Three years elapsed after arriving ...
— Wanderings In South America • Charles Waterton

... across it, in the frequent travel of a low-country ague. But, although her life has been somewhat saddened by such visitations, my cousin is too spirited a woman to give up to them; for she is therapeutical, and considers herself a full match for any reasonable tertian in the world. Indeed, I have sometimes thought that she took more pride in her leechcraft than becomes a Christian woman; she is even a little vain-glorious. For, to say nothing of her skill in compounding simples, she has occasionally brought down upon her head the sober ...
— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly



Words linked to "Tertian" :   cycle, third



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