- A set or group of three - Chinese secret society - Group of three - Secret society - A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a
trinity; as, a triad of deities. - A chord of three notes. - The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and
fifth, with or without the octave.
- Introduce - Launch - Set in motion - Start off adjusting a tie in it - To set going - To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with;
to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon. - To acquaint with the beginnings; to instruct in the
rudiments or principles; to introduce.
- Ceremony of introduction - Enrolment - The act of initiating, or the process of being
initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business,
literature, etc. - The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced
into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially,
the rite of admission into a secret society or order.
- One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the
18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply
versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed,
it was stated, several hundred years. - Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts.
- A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French
Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris. - One of a society of violent agitators in France, during
the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent
in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the
proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an
existing government; a turbulent demagogue. - A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the neck form a
hood, -- whence the name. The wings and tail are long, and the beak
moderately short. - Same as Jacobinic.
- One of a secret society, organized in the north of
Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the
regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant
religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; -- so
called in honor of William, Prince of Orange, who became William III.
of England.