Citations:tertiate


 * 1912 May 3rd, F. Madan, “letter to Sir William [Osler]” quoted by Harvey Cushing in The Life of Sir William Osler, volume 2 (2010 republication), chapter XXXII, pages 999–1,000
 * Three toasts preceded the election: — ‘Father Banks’, ‘The Lady Patroness’ and ‘To a happy Election’. Then seven spills of paper of precisely equal length were given round, and after an interval collected. Had any of them been dimidiated, tertiated or even decimated, the proposed election was void. As it was, they each exhibited their pristine Procrustean length.
 * 1979, Frank Gervasi, The Life and Times of Menahem Begin: Rebel to Statesman (Putnam; ISBN 0399122990, 9780399122996), page 42
 * “The Jews,” I have heard him say on several occasions, “were not merely decimated, for that means only one in ten of the world’s Jews were killed by the Nazis, but tertiated. One in every three were slaughtered.”
 * 1981, Meron Medzini [ed.], Israel’s Foreign Relations: Selected Documents, 1977–1979 (Ministry for Foreign Affairs), page 85
 * When I use the word “Tertiated” I mean to say that we do not accept the known term of “Decimation”. The Jewish People were not decimated, because that term stems from an old custom in the Roman Legions, that when a breach of discipline happened every tenth legionnaire was executed. Our people lost every third of its sons or its daughters and therefore we may use the word — it was tertiated.
 * When I use the word “Tertiated” I mean to say that we do not accept the known term of “Decimation”. The Jewish People were not decimated, because that term stems from an old custom in the Roman Legions, that when a breach of discipline happened every tenth legionnaire was executed. Our people lost every third of its sons or its daughters and therefore we may use the word — it was tertiated.