English edit

Etymology edit

tri- +‎ octile

Noun edit

trioctile (plural trioctiles)

  1. (astrology) An aspect of two planets with regard to the Earth when they are three octants, or three eighths of a circle (135 degrees), distant from each other.
    Synonym: sesquisquare
    • 1683, George Wharton, The Works of that Late Most Excellent Philosopher and Astronomer, Sir George Wharton, page 123:
      The Twentieth day about Four a Clock the Moon entered the 25 degree, 19 minutes of ꝳ and came to a Trioctile with the Radical Place of the Moon in the third Indicative, (Jupiter benignly Irradiating the Moon by a Trine about the same time,) denounced a propitious Crisis to ensue.
    • 1985, Zipporah Pottenger Dobyns, William Wrobel, Seven Paths to Understanding, page 316:
      They were trioctile in the natal chart, showing conflict between those parts of the nature, some variation on the conflict between fire ( self-will and self-confidence) and earth reality limits whether in the form of natural law, authority figures, or our own experience.
    • 1997, Johannes Kepler, E. J. Aiton, Alistair Matheson Duncan, The Harmony of the World, page 345:
      Thereefore, both points must be tested, first that these four are feebler than the quintile and biquintile, and second that the decile and tridecile are stronger than the octile and trioctile, by a very little.
    • 2010, Ján Kaleta, Introduction to Aquarian Astrology, page 226:
      Important life periods are quadrature and opposition of Uranus, opposition and conjunction of Saturn, opposition and conjunction of Jupiter, sextile, quadrature, trine or trioctile and opposition of Neptune, sextile, quadrature or trine of Pluto.