[Erroneous formation on supposed analogy of dialogue, the first syllable of this being mistaken for the prefix DI-2 = two. Cf. med.L. trialogus (Wyclif).] A dialogue or colloquy between three persons.
1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 431/2. As though it wer a dyalogue, or rather a tryalogue betwene himself, the messenger and me.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., I. 21. Trialogue between Tho. Bilney, Hugh Latimer, and W. Repps.
1721. D’Urfey, Two Queens Brentford, V. i. This Epilogue … is a Trialogue, and to be perform’d between Sol, Rain, and Boreas.
1847. Lloyd’s Weekly, 11 April, 8/2. ‘Springtide; or, the Angler and his Friends,’ on the second day, is a homely and piscatory trialogue between Senex, Julian, and Simon Paradise, interspersed, Walton-like, with snatches of verse.
1900. G. W. E. Russell, Conf. Bks. & Men, 150. A trialogue, called ‘A contention between a wife, a widow, and a maid.’
