Meaning of tricorporate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head.
   not-comparable
2. Synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies (which may be separate, or joined at the waist, etc)”).
   not-comparable, rare

Examples

“For quotations using this term, see⟳ Citations:tricorporate.”

“Kepler, who excelled as an imaginative writer , replied: 'I will not make⟳ an old man of Saturn, nor slaves of his attendant globes; but rather let⟳ this tricorporate form⟳ be Geryon so shall Galileo be Hercules, and the telescope[…]'”

“Athena wears a belted peplos, a bracelet, a necklace, and a fillet; in her left hand she holds a spear. [...] The tricorporate monster is joined from the hips to the shoulders. One part, on the foremost plane, is dying and turns[…]”

“[...] attractive suggestion that the famous threeheaded 'Bluebeard' from the Old Temple of Athena (Heberdey 1919: 52–69) on the Acropolis in Athens represents Geryon. Images of a threeheaded, tricorporate warrior first appear⟳ in Cyprus in the [...]”

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