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- noun Plural form of
terce .
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Examples
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Palmas is a river called _De los Potos_, where abundance of fresh water and ballast may be had, and plenty of ivory or elephants teeth, which river is in four degrees and almost two terces, or 4° 40 'N.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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This lande is scituate in the parallele of Rome in 41. degrees and 2. terces.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Rome, in 41. degrees and 2. terces: but somewhat more cold by accidentall causes and not of nature, (as I wil declare vnto to your highnesse elsewhere) describing at this present the situation of the foresaid
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Have we not seen, in a public sale, a small bronze statue fetch one hundred and twenty thousand ses - terces? "
The two last pleadings of Marcus Tullius Cicero against Caius Verres; Kelsall, Charles, tr 1812
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