triarian

English

Etymology

Latin triarii (plural), a class of Roman soldiers who formed the third rank from the front, from tres, tria (“three”).

Adjective

triarian (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Occupying the third post or rank.
   • 1660, Abraham Cowley, A Poem on his Majesty's happy Restoration:

     Let the brave Second and Triarian Band
     Firm against all Impression stand

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “triarian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)