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Cauldron vs Tripus - What's the difference?

cauldron | tripus |

As nouns the difference between cauldron and tripus

is that cauldron is a large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame while tripus is a Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, prævaricator.

cauldron

English

Alternative forms

* caldron

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame.
  • * 1623 , William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act IV, Scene I:
    • Double, double toil and trouble;
    Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
  • * 1997 , J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , Raincoast Books, ISBN 9781551923963, page 102:
  • * 2004 , Carl Neal, The Magick Toolbox: The Ultimate Compendium for Choosing and Using Ritual Implements and Magickal Tools , Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC (2004), ISBN 9781578633241, unnumbered page:
    • Large cauldrons are a little tricky to locate, but are well worth the search if you have a place to safely store and use one.
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    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    tripus

    English

    Noun

    (tripodes)
  • A Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, .
  • A vessel (usually a pot or cauldron) resting on three legs, often given as an ornament, a prize, or as an offering at a shrine to a god or oracle; often specifically, that such vessel upon which the priestess sat to deliver her oracles at the shrine to Apollo at Delphi; tripod.
  • (zoology, in cypriniform fishes) The hindmost Weberian ossicle of the Weberian apparatus, touching the anterior wall of the swimbladder and connected by a dense, elongate ligament to the intercalarium.

    • Synonyms

    * bachelor of the stool, (equivalent at Oxford University), tripos * (three-legged vessel in Greek and Roman antiquities) tripod * (bone in fishes) malleus, malleus Weberi

    Anagrams

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    References

    * “ ?tripus]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989 * The Century Dictionary Online * Dictionary of Ichthyology, Brian W. Coad and Don E. McAllister * A Dictionary of Scientific Terms, Henderson I. F., Henderson W. D., BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009, ISBN: 1113194219, 9781113194213, p. 174 ----