trinitrate (trinitrat)

[ IMG:content-0892.png:[graphic] [ tri nitro benzol (trī-ni-trō-ben'zol), n. + nitric + benzol.] A substance, C6H3(NO2)31 prepared by the continued action of nitric acid on benzene, and convertible into picric acid by the action of a stronger oxidizing agent. trinity (trin'i-ti), n. [ LL. trinita (t-)s, the number three, a triad, in theol. the Trinity (the word in all senses being first found in Tertullian), The world's great trinity , Pleasure, Profit, and Honor. Roger Williams . 3. [ cap.] The union of three persons-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-in one Godhead; the threefold personality of the one divine being. The statements of the doctrine of the Trinity in the creeds of Christen dom are the result of attempts to reconcile trinity the accepted teaching of Scripture (1), with reference to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, that each po e es the divine attributes, and is worthy to receive divine worship, and (2), as opposed to every form of polytheism, that there is but one God. To harmonize these two propositions has been one of the problems of theology; and the church doctrine of the Trinity has been the result. The most ancient symbol in which there oсcurs a distinct statement of this doctrine is the A than asian, in which it is thus stated: "We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in unity; neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance." The term Trinity is applied, however, in ecclesiastical literature to different philosophical explanations of the Biblical teaching. Some have held to a trinity of manifestation, one God revealing himself to mankind in three persons; some to a unity of will and a difference in other elements of being; others, again, to a subordination, though not an inferiority, of the Son to the Father, and of the Holy Spirit to the Father and the Son; others have attempted a mystical explanation of the Trinity, as, for example, the Swe denborgians, who hold that "the Father, Son, ande Holy Spirit are three e entials of one God, which make one, just as the soul, body, and operation make one one in man"; while still others have used language in explanation of the Trinity which makes it, as thus explained, approach tritheism-that is, the doctrine that there are three Gods. The received doctrine of the Christian church among Trinitarians may be fairly stated to be that we are taught by the Scriptures to believe that there is but one God, and yet three equal subjects in the one Godhead, who are described as persons, but that we are unable to determine in what sense these three are separate and in what sense they are united in one. So at his Baptizynge was alle the hool Trynytee. Mandeville , Travels, p. 104. Jhesu that syttyth yn Trynytė, Ble e the fadur that gate the. Octavian (ed. Hall i well), 1. 958. O holy, ble ed, and glorious Trinity , three Persons and one God. Book of Common Prayer , Litany. 4. A symbolical representation of the mystery of the Trinity, frequent in Christian art. One of the most general forms in which the Trinity has been symbolized consists of a figure of the Father seated on a throne, the head surrounded with a triangular nimbus, or surmounted with a triple crown, Christ with the cro in Trinity, late 13th century.- Church of St. Urbain, Troyes, France. (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict. de l'Architecture.") front, and the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, resting on the cro . The mystic union of the three persons has also been symbolized by various emblems or devices in which three elements are combined into one whole, as, for instance, by the equilateral triangle, or a combination of the triangle, the circle, and sometimes the trefoil. 5. In her., a bearing compounded of an orle, a pall, and four roundels, three at the angles of the orle where the bands of the pall meet it, the fourth at the intersection of the bands of the pall. This last roundel bears the word deus; the other three, the words pater, filius, and spiritus sanctus respectively; each part of the pall bears the word est; each part of the orle the words non est. - Trinity ring, a finger-ring decorated with three very prominent and emphasized bo es or other ornaments. Such rings in bronze, of three types, have been found in Ireland, and are of very great antiquity. The name was given by ignorant finders, who a umed that they were made for Christian ecclesiastics.-Trinity Sunday, the Sunday next after Pentecost or Whit sunday, observed by the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. It falls upon the octave of Pentecost as the day kept in honor of the third person of the Trinity. The corresponding Sunday in the Greek Church is called All Saints ' Sunday. The Anglican Church names the Sun days succeeding this day, until Advent, first, sec ond, third, etc., Sunday after Trinity, while the Roman Catholic Church reckons these Sun days from Pentecost. -Trinity term. See term.