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An obsolete chemical term former to neutral salts, as being a third substance, quod, resulting from the union of an acid and In Ecclesiastical History, a of the African Mon tanists; so named fiom the who embraced Mon tanist opinions. (See lectures, vol. ii., p. 234.) A coin of ancient Rome, the same as or triuncis, being the 4th part of the as, and containing three ounces before the value was Rl'MA (third or triple rhyme). A peculiar system of versification, borrowed by the poets from the Troubadours. The verses are Italian heroic lines of eleven syllables (interspersed very rarely with ten-syllable lines). The rhyme is: At the commencement of a poem or portion verses 1 and 3 rhyme together; as do verses 2, 6; the third rhyme begins with verse 5, which to 7 and 9; the fourth is formed by 8, 10, and 12, on; and the poem or canto ends abruptly, the last like the first, being on a couplet instead of a triplet. that the rhyme is interlaced throughout, and in suspense, so that no pause can be found until of the poem or canto; as, at the end of every line, still be a rhyme incomplete. This continuity very peculiar character to the metre, and renders it expre ive of sustained narrative or pa ion, and of the conclusion is often turned to good efmasters of versification. This metre has hern ren celebrated by Dante, who wrote in it in his THema It has been adopted by his imitators, of whom Nincenzo Monti, has used it to much advantage; Ariosto and other poets for their satires. Byron it in English, with indifferent succe , in his of Dante; and it has been attempted by various (It.) In Music, a composition in threo [s. 1247]