a. [f. as TRIDENT + -ED.]

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  1.  Three-toothed, three-pronged; = TRIDENTATE.

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1620.  Quarles, Jonah, Sect. vi. F ij. Neptune … Held his tridented Mace vpon the South.

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1816.  Encycl. Perthensis, V. 639/2. The pappus [is] monophyllous and tridented.

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  2.  Having or furnished with a trident.

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1624.  Quarles, Sion’s Elegies, iii. 12. Tridented Neptune.

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1866.  J. B. Rose, trans. Ovid’s Met., VIII. 236. Unto Neptune tridented I prayed.

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