Usually means: Third canonical hour of prayer.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. terce: Merriam-Webster
  2. terce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. terce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. terce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. terce: Vocabulary.com
  6. Terce, terce: Wordnik
  7. terce: Wiktionary
  8. terce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. terce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. terce: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. terce: Dictionary.com
  12. Terce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Terce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. terce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. terce: Rhymezone
  16. Terce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. terce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. terce: FreeDictionary.org
  19. terce: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. terce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. terce: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. terce-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Terce: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TERCE, TERCE, TERCE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Terce: Catholic Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (terce)

▸ noun:  (historical) The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
▸ noun:  (chiefly Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) The service appointed for this hour.
▸ noun:  (Scots law) A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.

Similar:
tierce, undern, three o'clock, noon, threeish, three, thirding, sext, quarter, threequel, more...

Opposite:
nones, sext, prime, vespers, compline

Types:
morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night, more...

Adjectives:
lesser, prime, red, first, reasonable

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Similar:
tierce, undern, three o'clock, noon, threeish, three, thirding, sext, quarter, threequel, more...

Opposite:
nones, sext, prime, vespers, compline

Types:
morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night, more...

Adjectives:
lesser, prime, red, first, reasonable



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