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Tertial vs Tertian - What's the difference?

tertial | tertian |

As nouns the difference between tertial and tertian

is that tertial is any flight feather attached to the humerus (upper arm) of a bird while tertian is a tertian fever.

As an adjective tertian is

of a fever, characterised by paroxysms every third day.

tertial

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the humerus (upper arm) of a bird.

    • tertian

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a fever, characterised by paroxysms every third day.
  • (music) Pertaining to the mean-tone temperament, in which major thirds are perfectly in tune.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tertian fever.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:And although we feele it not, it is not to bee doubted, if a continuall ague may in the end suppresse our mind, a tertian will also (according to her measure and proportion) breed some alteration in it.
  • *1819 , (Lord Byron), Don Juan , Canto 1:
  • *:He died of the slow fever call'd the tertian , / And left his widow to her own aversion.
  • The puncheon, an old wine cask, three of which made a tun.

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