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noun

Trier n.

One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard.

One who tries judicially.

(Law) A person appointed according to law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.

That which tries or approves; a test.

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Etymology of 'Trier'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trier" Quotes from Famous Books

... said Barry, looking at the linguist with a bewildered expression. It was a source of no little inconvenience to his friends that De Bertini was so very fixed in his determination to speak English. He was a trier all the way, was De Bertini. You rarely caught him helping out his remarks with the language of his native land. It was English or nothing with him. To most of his circle it might ...

— The Gold Bat • P. G. Wodehouse

... inverse to that of the Christian basilica. The secular basilica, in earlier examples a colonnaded building with its central space open to the sky, became at a later time a roofed hall, either, as in the case of the basilica at Trier, without aisles, or, like the basilica of Maxentius or Constantine in the Roman forum, with a series of deep recesses at the side, the vaulted roofs of which served to counteract the outward pressure of the main vault. The Christian basilica, if it were a mere imitation of this type of building, ...

— The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church • A. Hamilton Thompson

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