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Definition of Third degree
1. Noun. Interrogation often accompanied by torture to extort information or a confession.
Definition of Third degree
1. Noun. (idiomatic) intensive rough interrogation in order to extract information or a confession. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Third Degree
Literary usage of Third degree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1910)
"289, footnote) that any problem of the fourth degree may be reduced to one of
the third degree, followed by two of the second degree. ..."
2. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1910)
"289, footnote) that any problem of the fourth degree may be reduced to one of
the third degree, followed by two of the second degree. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"On the same principle an node an 1 niece are related iu the third degree, because
from the uncle to his father there is one »tep, from that father to his ..."
4. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1874)
"SURFACES OF THE third degree. 519. THE general theory of surfaces, ... The same,
then, will be the form of the reciprocal of a surface of the third degree, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1862)
"The result is a homogeneous cubic in a;, yt z, containing also a, /3, 7, S in
the third degree. The discriminant of this equation is of the twelfth degree ..."
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