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TRIVERBIAL: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Tri*ver"bi*al\, a. [Pref. tri- + L. verbum a word.]
(Rom. Antiq.)
Pertaining to, or designating, certain days allowed to the
pretor for hearing causes, when be might speak the three
characteristic words of his office, do, dico, addico. They
were called dies fasti.
 

 

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