[f. TRI- + Gr. λόγος word, discourse.] A group of three words or sayings (cf. next, 3), as the Welsh triads.
1834. Medwin, Angler in Wales, I. 283. These trilogues or triads … are easily retained in the memory.
1881. R. N. Cust, Pictures of Indian Life, 246. He [John Lawrence] made them repeat aloud the new Trilogue of the English Government, ‘Thou shalt not burn thy widows; Thou shalt not kill thy daughters; Thou shalt not bury alive thy lepers.’
