ternion (ternion)

[ So, when Christ's Glory Isay would declare, To expre e Three Persons in on Godhead are, He, Holy, Holy, Holy nam'd, To show We might a Ternion in an Vnion know. Heywood , Hierarchy of Angels, p. 72. 2. In bibliography, a section of paper for a book containing three double leaves or twelve pages. They say that a given manuscript is composed of quaternions and of ternions , but it never occurs to them either to describe the structure of a quaternion, or to say how we can distinguish the leaves one from another. Amer. Jour. Philol., VII. 27. [NL. (Lin IMG:content-0126.png:[graphic]