Trinity

trin′i-ti, n. the union of three in one Godhead: the persons of the Godhead: any symbolical representation of the persons of the Trinity.— adj. Trinitā′rian , pertaining to the Trinity, or to the doctrine of the Trinity.— n. one who holds the doctrine of the Trinity: a member of the Trinitarian order.— n. Trinitā′rianism , the tenets of Trinitarians.— n.pl. Trinitā′rians , a religious order founded at Rome in 1198 to redeem Christian captives from the infidels—also Mathurins and Redemptionists .— ns. Trin′ity-house , a corporation entrusted with the regulation and management of the lighthouses and buoys of the shores and rivers of England, and with the licensing and appointing of pilots for the English coast, founded at Deptford in 1518; Trin′ity-Sun′day , the Sunday next after Whit sunday, the Festival of the Holy Trinity; Trin′ity-term , formerly one of the fixed terms of the English law-courts that commenced on Friday next after Trinity Sunday. [L. trin it as , three— trin i , three each— tres , three.]