trifistularyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

trifistulary (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Having three fistulas or pipes.
   • 1780, Thomas Sheridan, A General Dictionary of the English Language: One Main Object of Which, Is, to Establish a Plain and Permanent Standard Pronunciation. : To which is Prefixed a Rhetorical Grammar‎:

     TRIFISTULARY Having three pipes.

   • 1839, Thomas Curtis, editor, The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]. Part 1, Volume 22‎, page 206:

     TRIFISTULARY, adj. Lat. tres and fistula. Having three pipes. Many of that species whose trifistulary bill or crany we have beheld. Browne's Vulgar Erroours.

   • 1904, Thomas Browne, “CHAPTER XII: Of the Phœnix”, in Charles Sayle, editor, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: VOLUME II‎, page 7:

     And lastly, the Bird Semenda hath found the same appellation, for so hath Scaliger observed and refuted; nor will the solitude of the Phœnix allow this denomination; for many there are of that species, and whose trifistulary bill and crany we have beheld our selves.

   • 2016, Joseph Nigg, The Phoenix: An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast‎, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 295:

     And lastly, the bird Semenda hath found the same appellation, for so hath Scaliger observed and refuted; nor will the solitude of the Phaenix allow this denomination, for many there are of that species, & whose trifistulary bill and crany we have beheld our selves.

参照

• "Trifistulary" in The Free Dictionary by Farlex.
• "trifistulary" in Oxford English Dictionary.