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triga

[ tree-guh, trahy- ]

noun

, Classical Antiquity.
, plural tri·gae [tree, -gahy, -jee, -gee, trahy, -].
  1. a two-wheeled chariot drawn by a team of three horses.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of triga1

< Late Latin trīga, contraction of Latin trijuga, equivalent to tri- tri- + juga, feminine derivative of jugum yoke 1
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Example Sentences

Strong south wind prevails so that we can make no progress whatever, I therefore went into the jungle and found Stravadium, a fine Bignonia foliis pinnatis, floribus maximis, fere spitham. infundibulif. subbilabiat. lacinus crispatis: one or two Acanthaceæ, two Gramineæ, two Vandelliæ, Bonnaya, Herpestes, Monniera, Rumex, Dentella, three or four Cyperaceæ, Ammannia, Crotalaria on sand banks, Triga in woods and Bauhinia, Dioscoria, a pretty herbaceous perennial Ardisia, etc. 

So that the souls of us three, so throughly agreeing, may be aptly said to have united in a triga.'

New constructions, according to true definitions, was the plan,—this triga was the initiative.

But if any one is anxious to know who the third person of this triga really was, or is, a glance at the Directory would enable such a one to arrive at a truer conclusion than the first reading of this letter would naturally suggest.

For this is none other than the person whom the principle of this triga, and its enlightened sentiment and bond of union, already symbolically comprehended, whom it was intended to comprehend ultimately in all the multiplicity and variety of his historical manifestations, though it involved a deliberate plan for reducing and suppressing his many-headedness, and restoring him to the use of his one only mind.

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