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TRIVERO, a small town in the north of Italy, in Pied¬ 
mont, province of Biella. Population 3300. 
TRI'VET, s. [See Trevet.] Any thing supported by 
three feet. 
The trivet table of a foot was larrle, 
A blot which prudent Baucis overcame, 
Who thrusts beneath the limping leg a sherd. Dryden. 
TRIVET (Nicholas), an English historian of the thir¬ 
teenth century, was the descendant of a respectable family 
in Norfolk. Having entered among the Dominicans 
in London, he studied at Oxford and at Paris; and at the 
latter place collected from books on the history of the Nor¬ 
mals and Franks such passages as related to the English 
nation, and supplied their defects from the best accounts 
which he could procure in his own country. In this way he 
composed his “ Annals of the Six Kings of England sprung 
from the Counts of Anjou,” introducing a detail of the most 
remarkable events that occurred under the Roman pontiffs, 
the emperors, the kings of France, and other contemporary 
princes, together with an account of learned men, particu¬ 
larly of his own order, and intending that his work should 
be a continuation of that of William of Malmsbury. He 
also wrote various other wotks, partly containing illustrations 
of ancient authors, but none of them were printed, except 
his commentary on St. Augustine’s book “ De Civitate Dei.” 
Soon after his return from France he became prior of a 
monastery in London, where he died in 1328, at the age of 
nearly 70 years. His historical work has passed through 
several editions under different titles, for which we refer to 
Aikin’s Gen. Biog. 
TRIVIAL, adj. [trivialis , Lat.] Vile; worthless ; vul¬ 
gar ; such as may be picked up in the highway. 
Be subjects great, and worth a poet’s voice, 
For men of sense despise a trivial choice. Roscommon. 
Light; trifling; unimportant; inconsiderable. This use 
is more frequent, though less just. 
This argues conscience in your grace. 
But the respects thereof are nice and trivial. 
All circumstances well considered. Shakspeare. 
TRIVIALLY, adv. Commonly; vulgarly.—Money is 
not the sinews of war, as is trivially said, where the sinews 
of men’s arms, in effeminate people, fail. Bacon .—Lightly; 
inconsiderably.—The presence of a beautiful woman of ho¬ 
nour, to minds which are not trivially disposed, displays an 
alacrity which is not to be communicated by any other ob¬ 
ject. Tatlcr. 
TRIVIALNESS, s. Commonness; vulgarity; lightness; 
unimportance. 
TR1VICARY, an ancient city of the south of India, pro¬ 
vince of the Carnatic, but of which very little remains. 
Lat. 12. 3. N. long. 79. 43. E. 
TRIVIER, St., a small town in the east of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Ain, with 1200 inhabitants; 11 miles north-east 
of Trevoux, and 20 south-west of Bourg. 
TRIVIER DE COUllTES, St., a small town in the east 
of France, department of the Ain, containing, with the ad¬ 
jacent hamlets, 1600 inhabitants; 20 miles north-west of 
Bourg. 
TRIVIGILLO BAY, a bay of the gulf of Honduras, on the 
south shore of the gulf of Mexico. 
TRIV1GLIO, a considerable town of Austrian Italy, 
in the Milanese, delegation of Bergamo, on the river Adda. 
It has a population of more than 6000 ; 20 miles east of 
Milan. 
TR1VIUM, a term invented in the times of barbarism to 
express the three sciences that were first learned in the schools, 
viz., grammar, rhetoric, and logic ; and the schools in which 
these sciences were taught were called triviales. 
TRIUMFETTA [so named by Plunder, in memory of 
Giov. Battista Triumfelti, prefect of the botanic garden at 
Rome], m Botany, a genus of the class dodecandria, order 
monogynia, natural order of columniferae, tiliaceae (Juss.) 
—Generic Character. Calyx: perianth five-leaved; leaflets 
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lanceolate, arilled below the tip, deciduous. Corolla: petals 
five, linear, erect, obtuse, concave, bent back, awned below 
the tip. Stamina : filaments sixteen, equal, ascending, length 
of the corolla, awl-shaped, erect. Anthers simple. Pistil: 
germ roundish. Style length of the stamens. Stigma bifid, 
acute. Pericarp: capsule globular, fenced on every side with 
hooked prickles, four-celled. Seedstwo, convex on oneside, 
angular.on the other.— Essential Character. Calyx five¬ 
leaved. Corolla five-petalied. Capsules hispid, opening in 
four parts. 
1. Triumfettalappula, or prickly-seeded triumfetta.—Leaves 
emarginate at the base; flowers uncalycled. This rises with 
an upright stem to the height of six or seven feet.—Native 
of Jamaica, Marfinico, and other islands of the West Indies, 
the Bermudas, and Brazil. 
2. Triumfetta glandulosa, or glandular triumfetta.— 
Flowers complete; leaves ovate-lanceolate, tomentose-hoary 
beneath. Branches woody, round, villose.—Native of Ara¬ 
bia Felix and India. 
3. Triumfetta bartramia, or currant-leaved triumfetta.— 
Leaves entire at the base, undivided. Root annual.—Native 
of the East Indies. 
4. Triumfetta velutina, or velvet triumfetta.—Flowers com¬ 
plete ; leaves ovate, somewhat angular, acuminate, tomentose- 
hoary beneath. Stem softly villose, round.—Native of the 
Isle of France. 
5. Triumfttta procumbens, or procumbent friumfttta.— 
Leaves roundish-cordate, subtrilobate tornentose; stem pro¬ 
cumbent.—Native of the Society Isles. 
6. Triumfetta hirta, or hairy triumfetta.—Flowers complete; 
leaves three-lobed ; the branches of the terminating panicle 
dichotomous, rough-haired. Stem frutescent.—Native of the 
island of Santa Martha in America. 
7. Triumfetta semitriloba, or mallow-leaved triumfetta.— 
Flowers complete ; leaves half three-lobed. This is an up¬ 
right branching shrub, six feet high.—Native of the Wt st 
Indies. 
8. Triumfetta grandiflora, or great flowered triumfetta.— 
Flowers complete ; leaves subcordate-ovate, entire, serrate, 
somewhat hairy; floral leaves lanceolate; branches rough- 
haired. This differs from the other species, in having the 
corallas twice or thrice as large.—Native of Montserrat. 
9. Triumfetta macrophylla, or long-leaved triumfetta.— 
Flowers complete ; leaves ovate-cordate, entire, unequally ser¬ 
rate, acuminate, tornentose, glandular at the base. Branches 
round, tornentose, as the whole plant is.—Native of South 
America. 
10. Triumfetta rhomberefolia, or rhomb-leaved triumfetta. 
—Leaves rhomboid; the upper ones lanceolate-ovate; 
flowers complete. This is an upright branching shrub, three 
feet in height.—Native of the West Indies. 
] 1. Triumfetta annua, or annual triumfetta.—Leaves ovate, 
undivided ; sometimes but rarely lobed. This is an annual 
plant, rising about two feet and a half high, and sending 
out several branches on every side. 
Propagation and Culture. —Sow the seeds on a hot-bed 
early in the spring; when the plants come up, transplant each 
into a separate pot filled with light, fresh, kitchen-garden- 
earth, and plunge them into a moderate hot-bed of tanner’s 
bark, shading them from the sun until they have taken new 
root, and then treating them in the same manner as other 
tender exotic plants. In autumn remove them into the bark 
stove, and refresh them with water frequently, except in very 
cold weather. If the plants live through the winter, they 
will flower the following summer, and ripen their seeds in 
autumn; but may be continued two or three years if care¬ 
fully managed. 
TRI'UMPH, s. [triumphus, Lat.] Pomp with which 
a victory is publicly celebrated. 
Hence will I drag thee headlong by the heels 
Unto a dunghill, which shall be thv grave; 
And there cut off thy most ungracious head. 
Which 1 will bettr in triumph to the king. Skakspeare 
State of being victorious. 
Sublime 
