territorial 
2. Limited to a certain district: as, rights may 
be personal or territorial. 8. [cap.] Of orper- 
taining to one of the Territories of the United 
States: as, a Tcrri torlal governor; the Territo- 
rial condition Territorial system, that system of 
church government in which the civil ruler of a country 
exercises as a natural and inherent right supremacy over 
the ecclesiastical affairs of his people. It was developed 
in the writings of the German jurist Christian Thomasius 
(1655-1728). 
territorialism (ter-i-to'ri-al-izm), . [< terri- 
torial + -ism.] The territorial system, or the 
theory of church government upon which it is 
based. Compare cottegialism, episcopalism. 
territorially (ter-i-to-ri-al'i-ti), . [< territo- 
rial + -ity.] Possession and control of terri- 
tory. 
Scarcely less necessary to modern thought than the idea 
of territoriality as connected with the existence of a state 
is the idea of contract as determining the relations of in- 
dividuals. W. Wilson, State, 17. 
territorialize (ter-i-to'ri-al-iz), r. t. ; pret. and 
pp. territorialized, ppr. territorializing. [< ter- 
ritorial + -ize.] 1. To enlarge or extend by 
addition of territory. 2. To reduce to the 
state of a territory. 
territorially (ter-i-to'ri-al-i), adv. In respect 
of territory ; as to territory. 
territoried (ter'i-to-rid), a. [< territory + -ecfi.] 
Possessed of territory: as, an extensively terri- 
toried domain. 
territory (ter'i-to-ri), n.; pi. territories (-riz). 
[< OF. territorie, F. territoire = Sp. Pg. terri- 
torio = It. territoro, territorio, < L. territorium, 
the land around a town, a domain, district, ter- 
ritory, < terra, earth: see terra.] 1. The ex- 
tent or compass of land and the waters thereof 
within the bounds or belonging to the jurisdic- 
tion of any sovereign, state, city, or other body ; 
any separate tract of land as belonging to a 
state; dominion; sometimes, also, a domain or 
piece of land belonging to an individual. 
But if thou linger in my territories 
Longer than swiftest expedition 
Will give thee time to leave our royal court> 
By heaven ! my wrath shall far exceed the love 
I ever bore my daughter or thyself. 
Shalt., T. G. of V., iii. 1. 163. 
Those who live thus mewed up within their own con- 
tracted territories, and will not look abroad beyond the 
boundaries that chance, conceit, or laziness has set to their 
inquiries. Locke, Conduct of the Understanding, 3. 
Gentlemen, I thought the deck of a Massachusetts ship 
was as much the territory of Massachusetts as the floor on 
which we stand. Emerson, West Indian Emancipation. 
2. Any extensive tract, region, district, or do- 
main : as, an unexplored territory in Africa. 
From hence being brought to a subterranean territorie 
of cellars, the courteous friars made us taste a variety of 
excellent wines. Evelyn, Diary, May 21, 1645. 
3. [cap.] In the United States, an organized di- 
vision of the country, not admitted to the com- 
plete rights of Statehood (see state, 13). Its gov- 
ernment is conducted by a governor, judges, and other 
officers appointed from Washington, aided by a Territorial 
legislature. Each Territory sends one delegate to Congress, 
who has a voice on Territorial matters, but cannot vote. 
Territories are formed by act of Congress. When a Ter- 
ritory has sufficient population to entitle it to one repre- 
sentative in the National House of Representatives, it is 
usually admitted by act of Congress to the Union as a 
State. Nearly all the States (except the original thirteen) 
have passed through the Territorial condition. There are 
now (1891) four organized Territories Utah, New Mexi- 
co, Arizona, and Oklahoma ; and there are also two un- 
organized Territories the Indian Territory and Alaska. 
Several countries of Spanish America have a system of 
Territories analogous to that of the United States. 
The territory is an infant state, dependent only till it is 
able to walk by itself. 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 351. 
The nation has never regretted delay in erecting a ter- 
ritory into a state. The Nation, Jan. 28, 1886. 
Cell territory, in anat. and phyeiol.. the range of extra- 
cellular substance supposed to be influenced by each in- 
dividual cell of any tissue. Virchow. Territory of & 
Judge, in Scots law, the district over which a judge's ju- 
risdiction extends in causes and in judicial acts proper to 
him, and beyond which lie has no judicial authority. = Syn. 
1 and 2. Quarter, province. 
terror (ter'qr), n. [Formerly also terrour; < F. 
terreur = Pr. Sp. Pg. terror = It. terrore, < L. 
terror, great fear, dread, terror, < terrere, put in 
fear, frighten, make afraid.] 1. Extreme fear 
or fright ; violent dread. 
The sword without and terror within. Deut. xxxii. 25. 
Amaze, 
Be sure, and terrour seiz'd the rebel host. 
Milton, P. L., vi. 647. 
Panting with terror, from the bed he leapt. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 383. 
2. A person or thing that terrifies or strikes 
with terror; a cause of dread or extreme fear: 
often used in humorous exaggeration. 
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tertian 
terrosityt, [< "ferrous (< F. tcrrcux = Pr. 
tf'i-ros, < L. terrosvs, full of earth, earthy, < 
terra, earth: see terra, and cf. terreous) + -it//.] 
Earthiness. 
Rhenish wine . . . hath fewer dregs and less terresity 
(read terrosity] or gross earthliness than the Glared wine 
hath. W. Turner (Arber's Eng. Garner, II. 114). 
King of terrors. SeeMnjri.-ReignofTerror,in/>c<;A ^_^ ... FOri Bin obscure 1 1 A tex- 
Ai'rf that period of the rtot Revolution during which the 'erry (lei i;, M. iv/ngui uie.j j.. f. 
country was under the sway of a faction who made the ex- *'' *"**" " f ' "" =' lk "" ^ 
ecution of persons of all ages, sexes, and conditions who 
ionsidered obnoxious to their measures one of the 
Rulers are not a terror to good works, hut to the evil. 
Rom. xiii. 3. 
There is no terror, Oassius, in your threats. 
Sfai*.,J.C.,iv.S. 66. 
That bright boy you noticed in my class, who was a ter. 
ror six months ago, will no doubt be in the City Council 
in a few years. Harper's May., LXXVIII. 933. 
cardinal principles of their government. This period may 
be said to have begun in March, 1793, when the revolution- 
ary tribunal was appointed, and to have ended in July, 1794, 
with the overthrow of Robespierre and his associates. Also 
called The Terror. = Syn. 1. Apprehension, Fright, etc. See 
alarm. 
terrort (ter'or), v. t. [< terror, n.] To fill with 
terror. [Rare.] 
They, terror'd with these words, demand his name. 
Heywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 515. 
terror-breathing (ter'or-bre*THing), a. In- 
spiring terror; terrifying. [Rare.] 
Through the stern throat of terror-breathing war. 
Drayton, Mortimer to Queen Isabel. 
terror-haunted (ter'or-han"ted), a. Haunted 
with terror; subject "to visitations of extreme 
fear. [Rare.] 
Till at length the lays they chanted 
Reached the chamber terror-haunted. 
Longfellow, Norman Baron. 
terrorisation, terrorise, etc. See terrorization, 
etc. 
terrorism (ter'or-izm), n. [= F. terroristne = 
Sp. Pg. It. terrorismo; as terror + -ism.] Resort 
to terrorizing methods as a means of coercion, 
or the state of fear and submission produced 
by the prevalence of such methods. 
tile fabric of wool or silk, woven like velvet, but 
with the loops uncut. 
The furniture was in green terry, the carpet a harsh, 
brilliant tapestry. Howells, Annie Kilburn, xi. 
2. In rope-making, an open reel. E.H. Knialit. 
Terry poplin. 'See poplin. Terry velvet, uncut 
velvet. 
Tersanctus (t6r'sangk"tus), n. [< L. ter, thrice 
(see ter), + sanctus, holy (see saint): so called 
because it begins with the word Sanctus, said 
thrice.] Same as Sanctus. 
terse 1 (ters), . [= Sp. Pg. It. terso, < L. ter- 
sus, wiped off, clean, neat, pure, pp. of tergere, 
wipe, rub off, wipe dry, polish.] It. Wiped; 
rubbed; appearing as if wiped or rubbed; 
smooth. 
Many stones also, both precious and vulgar, although 
terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 4. 
2f. Refined; accomplished; polished: said of 
persons. 
Your polite and terse gallants. Massinger. 
3. Free from superfluity ; neatly or elegantly 
compact or concise ; neat; concise. 
In eight terse lines has Phtedrus told 
(So frugal were the bards of old) 
A tale of goats : and clos'd with grace 
Plan, moral, all, in that short space. 
If. Whitehead, The Goat's Beard. 
Let the injury inflicted under this terrowm be appre- t ,',..,,. ^ , -,. T 
ciated, and full compensation awarded on the district by tersely (ters U), aav. If. 11 
the Judge of Assize or of County Court, and the barbarism ' 
will die~out. Fortnightly Reo., N. 8., XL. 212. 
terrorist (ter'or-ist), n. [= F. terroriste = Sp. 
Pg. terrorista; as terror + -ist.] One who fa- 
vors or uses terrorizing methods for the accom- 
manner. 
Fastidious Brisk, a neat, spruce, affecting courtier, . . . 
speaks good remnants ; . . . swears tersely and with va- 
riety. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour. 
2. In a terse manner; neatly; compactly; con- 
plishment of some object, as for coercing a cisely. 
government or a community into the adoption terseness (ters'nes), n. 1. Ihe state or prop- 
_c 1 : : j. . 1~;_ . ~ v erty of being terse; neatness of style; com- 
pactness; conciseness; brevity. 
of or submission to a certain course ; one who 
practises terrorism. Specifically (a) An agent or 
partizan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign 
of Terror in France. 
Thousands of those hell-hounds called terrorists, whom 
they had shut up in prison on their last revolution as the 
satellites of tyranny, are let loose on the people. 
Burke, A Regicide Peace, iv. 
(&) In Russia, a member of a political party whose purpose 
is to demoralize the government by terror. See nihilism, 
4(6). 
Under George the First, the monotonous smoothness of 
Byron's versification and the terseness of his expression 
would have made Pope himself envious. 
Maeaulay, Moore's Byron. 
2. Shortness. [Rare.] 
The cylindrical figure of the mole, as well as the com- 
pactness of its form, arising from the terseness of its 
limbs, proportionally lessens its labour. 
Paley, Nat. Theol., xv. 
Whether such wrongs and cruelties are adequate to ex- torsion (ter'shqn), . [< L. tergere, pp. tersus, 
case the violent measures of retaliation adopted by the wipe.1 The act of wiping or rubbing ; friction ; 
terrorists is a question to which different answers may be - * J 
given by different people. 
G. Kennan, The Century, XXXV. 755. 
terroristic (ter-o-ris'tik), a. [< terrorist + -ic.] 
Of or pertaining to terrorists. 
cleaning. 
He [Boyle] found also that heat and tersion (or the clean- 
ing or wiping of any body) increased its susceptibility of 
[electric] excitation. Encyc. nt., VIII. 3. 
ter-tenant, . See terre-tenant. 
The Century XXXV.'sa terttol (ter'shal), a. and . [< L. *tertialis, < ter- 
tiits. third: sesterce.] I. a. Of the third rank or 
terrorization (ter"Qr- 1 -za'shpn), . [< terrorize row ' among the flight-feathers of a bird's wing; 
+ -atwn,] The act of terrorizing or the state tertiarv a g s a qu iitfeather. 
of being terrorized. Also spelled terrorisation. n A te iary flight-feather; one of 
ierrorize (ter'or-iz), v. t ; pret. and pp. terror- ^ j fyrtbrn, of a bird's wing of 
izea. T)t)r. terrortzma. 1 = F. terronxcr = Pff. K . i ' _v."?-i. . . j.u. _ii 
terrorize 
ized, ppr. terrorizing. [= F. terroriser = Pg. 
terrorizar; as terror + -ize.] To fill with ter- 
ror; control or coerce by terror; terrify; appal. 
Also spelled terrorise. 
Secret organizations, which control and terrorize a dis- 
trict until overthrown by force. 
The Century, XXXVI. 840. 
The people are terrorised by acts of cruelty and violence 
which they dare not resist Edinburgh Jiev.,CLXllI. 567. 
terrorizer (ter'or-i-zer), n. One who terrorizes. 
Also spelled terroriser. 
Gortchakoff, Ignatieff, and other Panslavonic terrorisers 
the 
bird's wing of the 
third set, which grow on the elbow or upper 
arm ; one of the tertiaries. The word was intended 
to signify only the third set of flight-feathers, in the same 
relation to the humerus that the secondaries bear to the 
ulna, and the primaries to the manus ; but in practice two 
or three of the innermost secondaries are called tertials 
when in any way distinguished from the rest. Also tertiary, 
tertiary feather. See cuts under Mrrfi and coeert, n., 6. 
The two or three longer innermost true secondaries, 
growing upon the very elbow, are often incorrectly called 
tertials, especially when distinguished by size, shape, or 
color from the rest of the secondaries. 
Cones, Key to N. A. Birds, p. 113. 
of the Germans. 
terrorless (ter'or-les), o. [< terror + -Jess.] 
1. Free from terror. 
How calm and sweet the victories of life, 
How terrorless the triumph of the grave ! 
Lowe, Bismarck, II. 152. tertian (ter'shan), a. and n. [I. a. < ME. ter- 
cian, < L. tertidnus, of the third (day), < tertius, 
third : see terce. II. n. < ME. tercian, terciane, 
< OF. tertiane = Sp. terciana = Pg. tergSa, < 
L. tertiana (sc. febris), a tertian fever, fern, of 
2. Harmless. [Rare.] 
Some human memories and tearful lore 
Render him terrorless; . . . dread him not ! 
Poe, Silence. 
terror-smitten (ter'or-smit"n), . Smitten or 
stricken with terror; terrified. 
terror-stricken, terror-struck (te^or-strik''!!, 
ter'or-struk),^). a. Stricken with terror ; terri- 
fied';' appalled. 
terror-Strike (ter'or-strik), . t. To smite or 
overcome with terror. [Rare.] 
He hath baffled his suborner, terror-struck him. 
Coleridge, Remorse, iv. 2. 
u. let Ittlltu ^HC. JVUI ts), a Lcitiaii J rw, iciii. vi 
Shelley, Queen Mab, vi. tertianus, of the third (day): see I.] I. a. Oc- 
curring every second day : as, a tertian fever. 
If it do, I dar wel leye a grote 
That ye shul have a fevere terciane. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 139. 
Double tertian fever. See feveri. Tertian ague, in- 
termittent fever with a paroxysm every other day. Ter- 
tian fever. See feveri . 
II. N. 1. A fever or other disease whose 
paroxysms return after a period of two days, 
or on the third day, reckoning both days of 
consecutive occurrence ; an intermittent whose 
paroxysms occur after intervals of about forty- 
eight hours. 
