• (British) IPA: /tɹaɪn/

trine (not comparable)

1. Triple; threefold.
2. (astrology) Denoting the aspect of two celestial bodies which are 120° apart.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition III, section 1, member 2, subsection ii:

     The physicians refer this to their temperament, astrologers to trine and sextile aspects, or opposite of their several ascendants, lords of their genitures, love and hatred of planets {{...}

• (triple; threefold) tern, treble; see also Thesaurus:triple

trine (plural trines)

1. A group of three things.

   • a single trine of brazen tortoises

2. (astrology) An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart.

• (a group of three things) threesome, triad; see also Thesaurus:trio

trine (trines, present participle trining; past and past participle trined)

1. (transitive, astrology) To put in the aspect of a trine.

   • By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.

2. (obsolete, UK, thieves) To hang; To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
3. (obsolete, UK, thieves) To go.