Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In heraldry, having three bodies with only one head common to the three: as, a lion tricorporate.

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  • adjective tricorporal

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  • Kepler, who excelled as an imaginative writer, replied: 'I will not make an old man of Saturn, nor slaves of his attendant globes; but rather let this tricorporate form be

    The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

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