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  1. tripusnoun

    A Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, prævaricator.

  2. tripusnoun

    A vessel (usually a pot or cauldron) resting on three legs, often given as an ornament, a prize, or as an offering at a shrine to a god or oracle; often specifically, that such vessel upon which the priestess sat to deliver her oracles at the shrine to Apollo at Delphi; tripod.

  3. tripusnoun

    The hindmost Weberian ossicle of the Weberian apparatus, touching the anterior wall of the swimbladder and connected by a dense, elongate ligament to the intercalarium.

  4. Etymology: From the tripus and its etymon the ; compare tripod. In the sense associated with Cambridge University, the Tripus is named after the three-legged stool on which he sat during the degree-awarding ceremony.

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  1. purist

  2. stir up

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tripus in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tripus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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