terce

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Old French terce, from Latin tertia (“third; the third hour”).

noun

  1. (historical) The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
  2. (chiefly Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) The service appointed for this hour.
  3. (Scotland, law) A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.

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