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How to use terce in a sentence
The middle between them both is 50 degrees and a terce in latitude.
The standard English pronunciation now is ferce, perce, terce, and it is universal in New England.
Dissertation on the English Language | Noah Webster, Jr.At tierce a short chapter-mass was sung followed by continued study; from terce to sext the nuns shall read lessons (l. 1905).
Woman under Monasticism | Lina EckensteinThe choir commence the chanting of the psalms of terce and sext.
In the monastery church the monks were chanting "terce" to an empty nave.
God Wills It! | William Stearns Davis
British Dictionary definitions for terce
tierce
/ (tɜːs) /
mainly RC Church the third of the seven canonical hours of the divine office, originally fixed at the third hour of the day, about 9 a.m.
Origin of terce
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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