a. [f. Gr. τρίχα triply + -τομ-ος cut + -IC, after DICHOTOMIC.] = TRICHOTOMOUS.
1873. Wagner, trans. Teuffel’s Hist. Rom. Lit., I. 442. A certain fondness of trichotomic composition.
1880. Athenæum, 25 Dec., 851/3. To construct … the whole sum of human knowledge on the plan of a trichotomic system of self-division.
1882–3. Schaff’s Encycl. Relig. Knowl., III. 2394/1. The trichotomic view [of human nature] is found in the New Testament.
