Citations:tertiary


 * 1) Of third rank or order; subsequent.
 * 2) * 1831, &#91;&#93;, chapter 2, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; no. 9), rev. and corr. edition, London: and Richard Bentley, ; Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute; Dublin: Cumming,  ; republished as Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, New York, N.Y.:, November 1991, ISBN 978-0-553-21044-6 , page 25:
 * An untaught peasant beheld the elements around him and was acquainted with their practical uses. The most learned philosopher knew little more. He had partially unveiled the face of Nature, but her immortal lineaments were still a wonder and a mystery. He might dissect, anatomize, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.