noun
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A third anniversary.
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A plant that requires three years to complete its life-cycle.
adjective
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Happening every three years.
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triennial elections
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Lasting for three years.
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triennial parliaments; a triennial reign
Examples of triennial in a Sentence
Finally a great triennial competition decides the elections.
His connexion with this work so enhanced his popularity that he was chosen governor by an overwhelming majority and served for two triennial terms (1817-1823).
Most of the assemblies were annual, some triennial, some lasted only a day or two, others a week and occasionally longer.
He maintained the connexion of church and state, and opposed triennial parliaments and the ballot.
In 1693 Temple sent him to try and convince the king of the inevitable necessity of triennial parliaments.
The landlord lets his land to two or more persons jointly, who undertake to restore it to him in good condition with one-third of it interrozzito, that is, fallow, so as to be cultivated the following year according to triennial rotation.
Every lineal descendant, over eighteen years of age, of any passenger of the "Mayflower" is eligible to membership. Branch societies have since been organized in several of the states and in the District of Columbia, and a triennial congress is held in Plymouth.
In 1904 he visited Canada and the United States, and was present at the triennial general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States and Canada.
The archbishop holds a visitation of his diocese personally every three years, and he is the only diocesan who has kept up the triennial visitation of the dean and chapter of his cathedral.'
The refereed papers and posters in this unrivaled collection were selected for their quality by the organizers of the 14th triennial Meeting.
It'll be very interesting to see what happens in the next triennial.
The requirement for additional contributions will be reviewed as part of the next triennial valuation as at 31 March 2007.
High revel was held at night to celebrate the triennial achievement.
The refereed papers and posters in this unrivaled collection were selected for their quality by the organizers of the 14th Triennial Meeting.
It'll be very interesting to see what happens in the next Triennial.
The £ 6bn Tameside Fund reported a valuation result of 106% compared with 107% in the last triennial valuations in 1998.
March 25, 1776 Robin Hood ' Whether triennial Parliaments are not preferable to any other mode?
The Tyndale Fellowship is holding its triennial conference on the theme ' Transforming the World '.
Days Like These is the second Tate Triennial exhibition of contemporary British art.
Top of the page NPA election schedule... The National Pharmaceutical Association has announced the schedule for its triennial election to the Board.
The Cooper Hewitt Museum exhibited her handbags for the First National Design Triennial, an exhibit designed to celebrate and recognize American design excellence.
The same year he supported the Triennial Bill, but opposed the new treason bill as weakening the hands of the executive.
A triennial parliament, a cabinet, a privy council, and an elaborate judicial system were established, and the cumbrous machinery was placed in the hands of a " prime minister," a retired Wesleyan missionary, Mr Shirley Baker.
In spite of strong personal opinions to the contrary, he accepted the Triennial Act (1694), the vote reducing the army to io,000 men (1697), the vote disbanding his favourite Dutch Guards (1699) and even (November 1699) a bill re- scinding the grants of forfeited Irish estates, which he had made to his favourites.
At its first session the assembly passed an act declaratory of the rights and privileges of the people, and much like the charter of liberties and privileges enacted in 1683, except that annual instead of triennial sessions of the assembly were now requested and, as was also provided in Sloughter's commission and instructions, religious liberty was denied to Roman Catholics.
Sir George Grey, entering colonial politics as a Radical leader, had appealed eloquently to the work-people as well as to the Radical "intellectuals," and though unable to retain office for very long he had compelled his opponents to pass manhood suffrage and a triennial parliaments act.
By 1650 the assembly had been divided into two houses, in one of which sat only the representatives of the freemen without whose consent no bill could become a law, and annual sessions as well as triennial elections were coming to be the usual order.
A triennial sacrificial tithe is inconceivable when it is remembered that the tithe is only an extension of the firstfruits.
The priests of the sanctuaries had of old a share in the sacrificial feasts,' and among those who are to share in the triennial tithe Deuteronomy includes the Levites, i.e.
As Malachi speaks in Deuteronomic phrase of the "whole tithe," the payment to the Levites (now subordinate ministers of the Temple) was perhaps still only triennial; and if even this was difficult to collect, we may be sure that the minor sacrificial tithe had very nearly disappeared.
As its meetings were to be held every three years it came to be known as the "Triennial Convention."
The need of an organ for the dissemination of information, and the quickening of interest in the missionary and educational enterprises of the Triennial Convention, led Rice to establish the Latter Day Luminary (1816) and the Columbian Star, a weekly journal (1822).
Before 1844 the sessions of the Triennial Convention had occasionally been made unpleasant by harsh anti-slavery utterances by Northern members against their Southern brethren and somewhat acrimonious rejoinders by the latter.
The president of the republic has no power to dissolve the chambers, to endeavour to remedy the evil by one or another political party obtaining a substantial working majority, but must wait to see the results of the triennial elections.
The convention parliament had been dissolved on the 2 9 th of December 1660, and Charles's first parliament, the Long Parliament of the Restoration, which met on the 8th of May 1661 and continued till January 1679, declared the command of the forces inherent in the crown, repudiated the taking up of arms against the king, and repealed in 1664 the Triennial Act, adding only a provision that there should not be intermission of parliaments for more than three years.
Parliaments are triennial.
Tilak was twice elected to the Bombay Legislature for triennial terms. Again indicted for sedition in June 1908, he was sentenced by a Parsi judge (Mr. Justice Davar) to six years' transportation, afterwards commuted on account of age and health to simple imprisonment at Mandalay.
Only two unions disagreed, with one of them even suggesting a triennial congress.
The diets were henceforth to be triennial, and every new king was to pledge himself to be crowned and issue his credentials 1 within six months of the death of his predecessor.
Destitution on the frontiers led the Triennial Convention to engage extensively in home mission work (1817 onward), and in 1832 the American Baptist Home Mission Society was constituted for the promotion of this work.
The general activities of the body are conducted partly by its association (Essex Street, Strand), partly by its (triennial) National Conference, established 1882.